Category: Poems for Grownups

Written in memory of our dear friend, Rev. John M. Bell, who passed away on June 5th, 1999 ———————————- Last night I watched a ship depart, As it sailed out to sea. It took someone I loved away, Who meant so much to me. I thought of good times that we’d had Together on this […]

While clearing brush the other day, I came upon a little tree. For such a sapling it was tall But was much too thin and spindly. It was wrapped tight with thorny vines And scrub and brush grew close around. I would try to clear around it And save the little tree I’d found. The […]

She was standing in the rain, A smile upon her face. Her usual fear of thunder, Gone without a trace. As lightning flashed across the sky, I told her to come in. I barely heard her answer, Above the thunder’s din. “I can’t come in right now,” she said, “I’m busy as can be. Don’t […]

My wife and I have found few things On which we disagree. For worse or better, forty years And eye to eye is how we see. Yet there is just one tiny thing, (At least to me it seems real small). It tends to make my wife see red And never fails to raise her […]

He was the slowest in his class, The little bashful boy named Craig. She knew he wouldn’t understand When she had handed him the egg. But not to give him his own egg, She felt would just be too unfair. And if he didn’t comprehend, She knew the others wouldn’t care. Each was to fill […]