Category: Poems for Grownups

My vegetarian friends say that I am cruel and bad. The meat I eat for dinner was some poor critter’s mom or dad. I may eat Mom or Dad and aunts and uncles maybe. But I find it much more tender to eat the critter’s baby. They say that God will get me, for eating […]

He tried to run and hide from God, Somewhere God would never find him, In a boat to a distant shore, So he wouldn’t have to mind him. But then an awful storm blew up, And the crew began to worry. Jonah knew that he could save them But that he would have to hurry. […]

They had been married for seventy years, It had been a very good marriage. It was appropriate that they met their fate While riding in a horseless carriage. She had always planned their diet carefully With just the right vitamins for their health. Because taking care of their bodies Was far more important than great […]

A sportsman’s not what you’d call Hank, Though he sure liked to hunt and fish. He would say, “It’s never too small, To look good on a dinner dish.” He’d no love for mounted trophies, A Scrooge just like Ebenezer. No trophy went up on Hank’s wall, It all went into his freezer. He was […]

My daddy is a golfer, He let me watch him play. I can’t wait to tell my mommy The new words I learned today.