Category: Poems for Grownups

Lord, I know I’ve not been good, Sometimes I’m very bad. Mommy says the things I do Are sure to make you sad. She says that I should pray each night That you would make me good; So if you’ve time to hear my prayer, Please help me do the things I should. I know […]

No matter the gender or race I never forget a face. And all my life it’s been the same I never ever forget a name. But though at memory, I’m a whiz for the life of me, I can’t remember, what that third one is.

A lie detector robot! He knew he’d have to buy it. He couldn’t wait to get it home; To plug it in and try it. He decided he would try it first On his unruly teenage son, To see what kind of mischief He and his friends had done. When his son came home at […]

As I was walking down the street, Wearing my pretty Sunday dress… A flock of birds flew overhead Where they relieved their pent-up stress. I stood there in my dirty dress And looked up into God’s blue sky I breathed a silent prayer of thanks That herds of elephants can’t fly!

Two blondes had promised their father That they would bury him at sea. They thought that they would do the job, To save themselves the burial fee. They put him in his fishing boat, And took him out a ways from shore. They’d read the law required the grave, To be at least six feet […]