Category: Poetry

“You let him have a BB-gun? He’s going to shoot his eye out!” That I was gonna shoot myself My Grandma didn’t have a doubt. So I made a terrible face Because of what she had to say. “I guess you know when it freezes, Your face is gonna stay that way.” Now when I […]

When I tell This little tale About a man Swallowed by a whale, My tongue gets tangled In what I say, It won’t come out The proper way. I’ll hurry on I mustn’t delly; Jonah was in The whale of a belly. Oh dear, not belly I knew I’d fail. He spent three days In […]

My doctor never believes Anything that I say. She asks me how much I weigh, Then weighs me anyway!

Mother hired a babysitter To stay with me while she went out. She said that it would do no good For me fuss and stomp about. To have a sitter sit with me Is quite an awesome task, it seems. Our neighbors one time called the cops Because of babysitter’s screams. She said the sitter […]

MY REFLECTION I looked into a mirror And I saw my mother there All the wrinkles by my eyes And the way I comb my hair. I thought “Dear God it Heaven, Have I really become her? In the way I treat my kids, And the lifestyle I prefer?” I told my oldest sister, “We […]