Category: Poems for Grownups

For our friends Andy and Nancy They’re selling their house and they’re moving away. We can’t let them leave us but what can we say? They’ve found a new house, now Cinderella will try it. If the cat doesn’t like it, they probably won’t buy it. All his friends knew it was just idle wishing […]

The rug man had done such a beautiful job, He had stretched it so smooth and so tight. She stood and admired our new bathroom floor, She just thought it a most wonderful sight. The rug salesman had come and had talked to my wife, I knew it would cost me some money. I see […]

I have a friend who says it’s true, What is to be will be, come what. He says a man can’t change his life, There is no if, no and, nor but. I try to think he has some doubt And that he probably really cares, But then, I happened to be there When he […]

He was going on a diet And was going to lose some weight. He thought it would make it easy If he just watched the things he ate. His doctor said, for it to work, He’d see if he could make it fun. If, each three days, he’d diet two Then he could skip the […]

It seems to me some people go To church for conversation. But lots of people that I know Go there for observation. A few have found it quite the place To get some rest and nod. It makes you wonder just how many Go there to worship God? Having grown up attending church, I can […]