Category: Poems for Grownups

Mother always laughed and told me, “Get your elbows off the table.” She thought that it was kinda funny ‘Cause she made it rhyme with Mabel Would she have thought it as funny If my name had been Eloise? Because then she’d have to tell me Somewhere I shouldn’t put my knees!

The judge faced the two opposing lawyers, “I got a bribe from you, Mr. Brown; A check for fifteen thousand dollars,” The judge said, with a frown. “Then I got another bribe,” the judge said, “A check for ten thousand from Mr. Green. According to Mr. Brown’s bribe, I would have to consider it a […]

It’s my favorite place to be Where I can hear the Word of God And listen to the preacher tell Where Bible men have lived and trod. To hear about commandments ten And learn by heart the Golden Rule; To sing the songs that I had learned, In younger days, in Sunday school. Old songs […]

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 […]