Category: Poetry

Have you ever read a story About the famous Captain Hook? Yesterday I read about him In a Peter Pan comic book. But not a single word was said Of how the captain got his hook; Of just how he had lost his hand, Whether to crocodile or crook. Don’t you wonder what his name […]

Just a slip of a girl From a very small town Where the gossip was quick To drag anyone down A girl that was single Was having a baby It was surely a sin, No if, and, or maybe No way to explain An illegitimate child And the rumors were swift They’d begun to run […]

“Someone’s going to get a spanking,” Is what my Daddy said As he looked at my report card, While he tucked me into bed. “Just look at that old ‘D’, It’s such an ugly letter. Someone’s going to get a spanking If someone doesn’t make it better.” Tomorrow I’ll have to tell my teacher, “Don’t […]

It’s my favorite place to be Where I can hear the Word of God And listen to the preacher tell Where Bible men have lived and trod. To hear about commandments ten And learn by heart the Golden Rule; To sing the songs that I had learned, In younger days, in Sunday school. Old songs […]

She answered the doctor’s question With her little girl’s dimpled charm. “Is this the first bone you ever broke?” “No, I broke my sister’s arm!”