Category: Poems for Grownups

She answered the doctor’s question With her little girl’s dimpled charm. “Is this the first bone you ever broke?” “No, I broke my sister’s arm!”

How can one write a poem About someone named Josiah? They used the only word that rhymes When they named the wind Mariah. Bev says he doesn’t like it But he doesn’t have a say, It will be an easier poem to write If I just call him Jay. Columbus discovered America Way back in […]

He was cooking an elephant, When I first saw the pigmy man. The elephant was much too large To fit a normal cooking pan. I asked him how he’d killed the thing, He said he’d killed it with his club. How big a club could this man lift? Some tiny limb or stick or stub? […]

The two priests both stood waving their signs. Each sign read, “BEWARE THE END IS NEAR!” Drivers sped by with little notice, Without a sign of concern or fear. Then one priest said to the other one, “They don’t notice even when we shout. Do you think that it would be clearer, If the signs […]

A good friend asked me to model. He said he’d like to paint my face. I took it as a compliment With my usual charm and grace. He said that my face inspired him To want to paint a brand new way. That it must be put on canvas. And would I sit for him […]