Category: Poems for Grownups

Two gray haired ladies were eating lunch; They’d been best friends for many years. Through times of sadness and heartache They’d shared times of laughter and tears. Then Mattie told her friend Hattie, “It is very much to my shame, But, for the very life of me I can’t seem to recall your name! Hattie […]

When I watched the Nature Channel, Some things I never understood; Like, why some monkeys have no tails And why a cobra has a hood. Why some smart chimps can’t learn to talk And why some beetles live on dung. But most of all I wondered why An animal would eat its young. My kids […]

He was supposed to memorize The entire Gettysburg Address, Which was causing my grandson A lot of worry and distress. So I recited it for him, As I had learned it long ago. It was to him a big surprise That it was something I would know. He said, “It’s easy to recall Something that […]

I had climbed the highest mountain, Where I could hardly breathe the air, Just to find the man of wisdom, That someone told me lived up there. And I found him contemplating The many problems of the world. Before this great man of wisdom There was no secret left unfurled. When at last I asked […]

“If you lose thirty pounds,” His slightly plump wife said, “I’ll dance for you each night Before we go to bed.” The husband told his wife, Observing her tight pants, “If you lose thirty pounds, I just might watch you dance!”