Category: Poems for Grownups

Now you asked me to tell you just how I got saved, What caused me to change the way I behaved. But first I must tell you that God is no fool. He knows when you’re living by his holy rule. I was raised up in church and there dedicated, And when I got sick, […]

We were on our morning walk Just us two, ole Bea and me. I told ole Bea, “You’re getting old.” For we had both turned fifty-three. Then we saw him stuck fast there In hot asphalt, a little toad. I pried him loose most carefully And took him well out of the road. And then, […]

I have a good partner That’s close as a brother. At somebody’s first glance We look like each other. He has all the talent, Smartest one of us two, He mostly leads the way In the things that we do. Though I’ll take the lead When we have a fistfight, He is the only one […]

It wasn’t even a one-horse town, This place they called New Scenery. It had a pharmacy, a dry goods store, A barbershop and a beanery. They all belonged to old Doc Laughlin, Located in his front room. He’d keep your horse in a stall out back And for a quarter, would give it a groom. […]

While walking in the neighborhood On her usual evening stroll… Mrs. Jones saw little Bobby Covering up a great big hole. “What are you doing?” She asked him, “I bet you’re burying treasure.” Little Bobby just shook his head, Packing dirt with boyish pleasure. “It’s just a rat grave,” Bobby said, “I just now saw […]