Category: Poems for Grownups

“Mom, if God’s bigger than the world, Like our pastor this morning said,” Little Betty speculated, While saying prayers down by her bed. “If God’s so very, very big, But he still lives inside us too, Then if we are really Christians, Why doesn’t God always show through?”

I usually wake up Grouchy, A habit that is ingrained deep… But this morning, just for once, I think I’d better let her sleep!

My doctor never believes Anything that I say. She asks me how much I weigh, Then weighs me anyway!

Mother hired a babysitter To stay with me while she went out. She said that it would do no good For me fuss and stomp about. To have a sitter sit with me Is quite an awesome task, it seems. Our neighbors one time called the cops Because of babysitter’s screams. She said the sitter […]

MY REFLECTION I looked into a mirror And I saw my mother there All the wrinkles by my eyes And the way I comb my hair. I thought “Dear God it Heaven, Have I really become her? In the way I treat my kids, And the lifestyle I prefer?” I told my oldest sister, “We […]