Category: Poetry

A good friend asked me to model. He said he’d like to paint my face. I took it as a compliment With my usual charm and grace. He said that my face inspired him To want to paint a brand new way. That it must be put on canvas. And would I sit for him […]

Let’s give a thought, if you have time, To treatment of the lowly snake. Who without benefit of legs Must travel over land and lake. He lost his legs, the Good Book says, Because he tempted Adam’s wife And brought the first recorded fight Into that happy couple’s life. She’ll crush his head, the curse […]

I made a pair of stilts, Now I’ll be ten feet tall. I’ll make my mom and dad And all my friends look small. As soon as I get up, I’ll reach and grab a cloud. I’ll watch the next parade From back behind the crowd. Someone hold me steady! Don’t anybody laugh… It’s really […]

Bill and I were out hunting deer, A way up on the far hillside, When old Bill had a heart attack And that is how my old friend died. My hunting really had been good. I’d killed a great big ten point buck And then old Bill just up and died. Now isn’t that my […]

Don’t ever leave your grandson Alone at your computer, Next time you try to use it, You might require a tutor!