Category: Poetry

What if you had been born a cat? Your first word would have been, “Meow”. Or if you had been born a puppy You would have told your mom, “Bow Wow”. You’d have to learn to say, “Oink Oink”, If for a dad, you had a pig. But if you had been born a worm […]

Consider the hippopotamus… Who spends all day in the swimming pool. Hippos will eat only vegetables, Which Mom thinks is a very good rule. If Hippos eats only vegetables, And other healthy foods like that, Doesn’t it make you wonder why Hippo is the synonym for fat? When one reaches her maturity, And her waist […]

I told him that my right leg hurt Every time that it turned cold. Old Doc said, “There’s nothing wrong,” He said, “It’s just from getting old.” I used to think that Doc was smart And that he was quite the sage. But my left leg is alright And they’re both the exact same age!

The voice on the phone was shaky, It resounded with dread and fear. “My hunting buddy’s dead!” he yelled, “We just came out to hunt some deer!” I tried to calm the caller down, “There’s an ambulance on the way. Just calm down until it gets there, Try to listen to what I say. Before […]

I had a magic tree house High up in an old oak tree. A place where I could become Anything I’d want to be. Sometimes I was a pilot My tree house a jumbo jet, I would fly above the clouds Fly as high as I could get. It could be a submarine To sail […]