Category: Poems for Grownups

We had a fight with a powder puff My sister Jennie and me. When you fight with a powder puff It’s hard for you to see. You twirl around in powdery clouds That smell so much like Mother. I told Jennie, “This will teach you Not to tease your brother!” Now just where did our […]

The pastor got a new set of teeth, Sunday’s sermon was eight minutes long. His speech sounded hesitant and garbled, The choir covered it up with a song. The next Sunday he spoke for ten minutes, The church members were all very moved, His sermon was short but inspiring And his diction had surely improved. […]

He took a bull and he took a cow, He took a boar and of course a sow. He took two dogs and a couple of cats, He even took mice and a pair of rats. He took grasshoppers and honey bees But why in the world did he take the fleas?

An O with a stumpy tail, A letter of little use, Used by the duck But not by the goose. A letter of which I’m not too keen But used by royalty It’s fit for a queen. When we play Scrabble We find that the Q Is almost worthless Without its U. I’ve much in […]

The state trooper saw her coming, She was driving way too slow. Everyone behind was honking, Trying to get her to go. He clocked her going twenty-three. She would get somebody killed! All the drivers stuck behind her, He could see, were not too thrilled. So he stopped her and told her She was driving […]