Category: Poems for Grownups

For our twenty fifth anniversary I took my wife to Spain. That I truly love my wife Certainly must be very plain. For our fiftieth anniversary I have plans for doing better. To surprise my lovely wife, I’m going back to Spain to get her. One thing that makes a humorous poem funny is a […]

My purple shins, My broken toes, Are all because Of my wife Rose. My nightly trips, To you know where, Must all be made With utmost care. The couch, the chairs, The big TV, My Rose can’t seem To let them be. She moves things here, She moves things there; You can’t sit down She’s […]

At God’s whim, he made our body Out of many different parts. He must have had a Godly plan Of drawings, graphs and fancy charts. My shin, I think, he gave much thought; I’m sure it wasn’t just a lark. Because I’ve used it frequently, For finding furniture in the dark.

Have you ever noticed how Distances all seem to change? Places you could scratch before Seem to be just out of range. Little things that you have dropped, That are lying on the floor, You could easily have picked up Just a few short years before. When you try to read a book, You must […]

When I’ve had an operation, And I am scared to laugh or cough, The thing that really makes me mad, The thing that always tees me off, Are acquaintances who visit, Or even people on the staff, Who think they are comedians And think they have to make me laugh. When I’m lying there in […]