Category: Poems for Grownups

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 […]

My Grandmother says That she has forgot, How old she’s become But it is a lot. So I told Grandma “That’s easy to fix, Check your underwear, Mine says 4 to 6.”

Old Harry Spatts Has sixty cats, He keeps them in his barn. He keeps them there To eat the rats That come to eat his corn. Each has a bowl And each a hole So they can come and go. But why each cat Has its own hole, I said I’d like to know. Well […]

“One of the ten commandments says Honor your father and mother. Is there a commandment that tells How to treat sister and brother?” When she asked her Sunday School class, The first to raise his hand was Will. Looking at his sister, he said, “The one that says, ‘Thou shall not kill!’ ”

Seven times he had proposed, Seven times she’d turned him down, Saying she would never marry Someone that was such a clown. Being a persistent clown, He mailed her presents every day Hoping that his many gifts Would cause her hardened heart to sway. His ploy was somewhat successful, As she has agreed to marry; […]