Category: Poems for Grownups

I was eating at a restaurant With my only sister and her kid. Now I had always disliked children And most everybody knew I did. But I was being nice to Junior, Just mostly for my family’s sake. That is until my sis decided That she had to take a potty break. I asked, “But […]

Yesterday my wife told me, Often during times of stress When she is down in the dumps, She will buy herself a dress. I looked at her and told her, “Well it’s not as if I care, But the dress that you have on Must be one that you got there!”

Her son had been making a fuss And she was carrying him out. The preacher, known to be quite loud, Had just begun to yell and shout. He stopped and called to the woman, Seeing her countenance was grim. “He’s not bothering me, Sister.” She said, “No, you’re bothering him!”

Their boat was beginning to sink And it was time for them to pray. But neither one of them knew how; Neither one knew just what to say. One of them lived next to a church, He said that he had heard them pray. He said he would give it a try And maybe they […]

The doctor said, “For sure a boy” And filled my wife and me with joy. But later when he’d time to think, He said we’d best change things to pink. Then Aunt Mae said, (she’s never wrong) “The mother’s voice, a girl child’s song.” Great Grandma said, “She carries high. The spot that girls will […]