Category: Poems for Grownups

My friend was quite young When he took up the game. His life since that time Has not been the same. Each waking hour He talked of the green, Of the woods and the putters And the irons that he’d seen. Golf had so quickly Become an obsession, To miss just one game Would cause […]

Who gets the biggest slice of pizza? Tom and Fred’s argument ongoing. Mom thought she could fix the argument With just a bit of mother’s knowing. “Remember Jesus up in Heaven? When we argue He always sees us. If he were here he’d take the small piece.” Tom said, “Okay Fred, you be Jesus!”

Harry had worked there twenty years; He always punched in right at eight. You could set your watch by Harry But this morning Harry was late. All of us had taken notice When eight o’clock had come and past. We began to check our watches Each thinking that his watch was fast. When Harry finally […]

Teacher said the Jonah fable Was nothing but a story tale. She said a man could never fit Through the narrow throat of a whale. Peggy said, “It’s in the Bible And so the story must be true. Do you think God, who made the whale, Doesn’t know what a whale can do?” Teacher said, […]

She was the center of my life, My lovely fiancée. I thought that nothing she could do Would ever cause my love to sway. Until her letter came just now, And hit me like a bomb: “Dear John, Your dad and I got married. Love, Mom”