Category: Poems for Grownups

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 […]

Bill and I were out hunting deer, A way up on the far hillside, When old Bill had a heart attack And that is how my old friend died. My hunting really had been good. I’d killed a great big ten point buck And then old Bill just up and died. Now isn’t that my […]

Don’t ever leave your grandson Alone at your computer, Next time you try to use it, You might require a tutor!