Category: Poetry

Sis said, “It’s raining cats and dogs!” I was eating apple strudel. She said before she came inside, That she had stepped into a poodle. She watched me as I penned these lines And told me it should be a crime, For poets to add useless words To try and make their verses rhyme. My […]

A sea-faring man And a captain bold, At least that is what All his men were told, He wrote of bravery In his log each night But things that he wrote Were never quite right. The men all knew things Not put in his log. To his back they called Him, ”Old Yellowdog”. From any […]

The country church asked Brother Jones If he’d come and preach a service. He’d never preached for Methodists And he was a little nervous. They had called him Sunday morning, When they found out he was coming. They had warned their church was small And they had no indoor plumbing. When he had started preaching […]

As I was looking for a phone, To make a call, the other day, I noticed, without asking me, They’d taken all the booths away. How long ago had this been done Or maybe I just failed to see, That something else had been removed That I felt had belonged to me? No wall to […]

Let me tell you the tale About Timothy Green, Who climbed in his mother’s Brand new washing machine. It was entertaining To his brother Michael, Who had watched him go through The entire spin cycle. His mother was worried, But his dad just said, “Bosh, I’m sure little Timmy Will come out in the wash.”