Category: Poems for Grownups

I read the book most carefully And you are certainly right, of course. There’s nothing in the rules that says, “First remove them the horse”.

The mushrooms looked so delicious That she had gone to pick some more. They looked exactly like the ones They sell at the grocery store. But to be sure they weren’t poison, She’d given some of them to Spot; She soaked them in bacon grease And then she fed him quite a lot. Old Spot […]

“The school mascot, Old Bill, the goat, Has to find a new place to live.” The coach informed the football team, “Because his shed leaks like a sieve.” One of the players told the coach That they could keep him in their dorm. They could feed him from the chow hall And they could keep […]

If more than I can handle God had promised not to give, Then He had lost my address And forgotten where I live. It is evident to me, God and I were out of touch Or I think He would have seen That He trusted me too much. Then he showed me how the dark […]

When we get ready to go out, I ask my wife, “What should I wear?” She yells from her walk-in closet, The same thing that she always says, That she really doesn’t care. So I grab my favorite shirt, My wife describes as greenish khaki. Just then she yells back, “Not that stupid green shirt […]