Category: Poems for Grownups

Two little wooden dolls lay drying, Side by side on a wooden table. One doll decided his name was Cain, The other doll had chosen Abel. Cain asked Abel, “How did we get here? I wonder how we came to evolve?” Abel said, that someone had made them, “That’s no difficult problem to solve.” But […]

Well, I am going to graduate. The ceremony is tomorrow. The day that I’ve looked forward to With feelings mixed of joy and sorrow. My head is full of all I’ve learned My knowledge is complete. I’m ready to attack the world, I won’t accept defeat. I can accomplish anything, No goal can be too […]

The family was quite large, The house was always cluttered. She’d birthed another baby, The backwoods husband muttered. It was this pastor’s duty To visit on occasion. His wife had accompanied him After lots of his persuasion. The old grandma asked them in; They inquired about the child. She said, “It’s another girl And my […]

Old Doc asked the young doctor Just what he thought he had done. “You told her she is pregnant, Mrs. Jones is sixty one!” “She ran down to my office, She’s about to have a fit.” The young doctor told Old Doc, “It cured her hiccoughs, didn’t it?”

The great wall that divides Heaven from the Devil’s Hell Was in need of much repair, as any soul could tell. Fumes of molten sulfur had been seeping through each crack So God approached the Devil, at first with godly tact. “Our wall’s gotten shabby, bits and pieces lie about. And if we don’t fix […]