Category: Poems for Grownups

Oh dirty nasty little fly, Where had your footsteps taken you Before you walked across my plate And stuck your snout into my stew? I saw you and your friends out strolling Across a fresh cow paddy And then I saw you eating slop When I fed the pigs with Daddy. I want to know […]

She grinned as she stood watching me, A wrinkled crooked toothless grin. Tobacco juice in rivulets Ran through the whiskers on her chin. She’d filled the old gourd dipper full, Good spring water, fresh, clear and cold. To drink from her offered dipper – Was I foolish to be so bold? She looked at me […]

The brave and gallant general Told the men in his command “We’re going up to plunder In the northern Texas land.” When, on a distant hilltop, He saw a Texas Ranger. He dispatched his two best men, Though he saw little danger. They quickly chased the Texan To the backside of the hill. Then the […]

The guests were already seated; The wedding to begin at eight. But the groom was yet to arrive, All the party could do was wait. The mother was wiping her tears. The father had turned red with rage, “If he’s to be my son-in-law He’s gotta start acting his age.” The groom came limping up […]

He found a little mirror, A thing he’d never seen. He picked a clump of ragweed And wiped the surface clean. It looked just like his father, Who had been dead for years! Such unhappy memories… It kindled hidden fears. He would hide it in the woods Far from his old wife’s eyes. To see […]