Category: Poems for Grownups

I play at lots of funerals, This one was for a homeless man. Bagpipers really like to play And I play every chance I can. The directions I was given Were poorly done and made me late. I had missed the poor man’s funeral When I got to the grave yard gate. Only the digging [...]

It was first game of the season, There was excitement in the air. One team had much bigger players, It didn’t seem to be quite fair. I asked a lad from the small team If he had kept up with the score. He said his home team had zero, The other team had 24. “Just [...]

For Christmas, I gave my wife’s mom Her very own burial plot. She said that it was the weirdest Of all the presents that she got. I didn’t buy a gift this year, And she was mad as she could get! And madder still, when I explained She hadn’t used last year’s gift yet.

“Can you support a family?” The prospective father-in-law Asked the very nervous young man, Not so much pleased with what he saw. “Well of course not!” said the young man. “I can support your daughter, Joan, But the rest of your family Will have to make it on their own!”

We had a fight with a powder puff My sister Jennie and me. When you fight with a powder puff It’s hard for you to see. You twirl around in powdery clouds That smell so much like Mother. I told Jennie, “This will teach you Not to tease your brother!” Now just where did our [...]