Category: Poems for Grownups

She asked that I come visit As she hadn’t long to live. She said she loved our little church. She had some things she’d like to give. She talked of doing a heavenly dance With her departed husband Fred. She knew that he would wait for her These long ten years that he’d been dead. […]

Burt and Pete were on a sales trip When their old car had broken down. They were way out in the boondocks, Not close to any kind of town. They walked to a well-kept farmhouse Near the place where they were stranded. You’ll have to sleep out in the barn, The young widow had demanded. […]

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 […]

“There’s a whole lot of men,” She told her boyfriend Harry, “Who will be miserable On the day that I marry.” “Do you really think so?” Asked her boyfriend Harry. “And just how many men Do you intend to marry?”

She was dancing on a manhole cover And I asked what she was doing. Then she looked at me quite coyly And she said that she was twoing. Well, I looked for Candid Camera As she continued with her dance “Two, two, two, two, two”, she chanted. It almost put me in a trance. I […]