Category: Poems for Grownups

They were on the lake ice-fishing When the church bells began to ring. They could hear the organ music And the people begin to sing. Hank was the first one to mention How very bad his conscience hurt. But they both kept right on fishing… “Well my conscience is clear,” said Bert. “You have no […]

Why had God taken my best friend? An awful thing he’d done to me. I needed John more than He did, A loving God would surely see. A world that is full of sinners, He could have taken one of those. Or the beggar on the corner With the pathetic smelly clothes? My best friend […]

Skunk’s well known to be a stinker But has a very tender heart. He’s not the kind to hug and cuddle And then to hastily depart. He thought that she was very cute, She certainly was appealing. That is why it had been so hard Just to justify his feeling. He thought, when hugging Porcupine, […]

He was a missionary, He had been one all his life. How to convince this heathen, He should only have one wife. They said he couldn’t do it, The tribe was too ferocious. Just what they would do to him Would really be atrocious. But it was the work of God So it shouldn’t cause […]

Jack’s bed was by the window The whole time that they’d been there. It really hadn’t mattered; Neither took the time to care. Both of them were paralyzed From the time they’d been in Nam. They both had learned the hard way, Of the deadly pop-up bomb. Jack didn’t like the TV And visitors there […]