Category: Poems for Grownups

They were getting up in years, Their words were sometimes cross. Each accused the other Of a greater memory loss. One night she asked for ice cream With some chocolate syrup on top. She said, “Now don’t you dawdle You’ll forget it if you stop.” When the man at last returned, He had a breakfast […]

The Bible says to love your neighbors Even if they’re bums. But surely God makes some exceptions If the neighbor’s kid plays drums.

I am tooling down Highway Fifty Enjoying my time all alone. I hate that stupid ringing, It’s my wife on the dern car phone. The way that these nuts are driving She knows it’s dumb to converse. While I was turning the thing on, I just missed hitting a hearse. She thinks that just ’cause […]

A Rabbi, Priest, and  Minister Were discussing Salvation’s plan. They wondered why Salvation Had been offered solely to man. Each friend had his own idea Of just how to gain salvation But all three of them had agreed It should be for all  creation. They decided they’d be the first To teach salvation to a […]

The little boy in church, Ever wonder why he’s cranky? His mom’s just cleaned his face, With spit on a dirty hanky! CRANKY Surely I’m not the only one that remembers those impromptu spit baths to get off that tiny smudge that somehow got overlooked in your Saturday night bath. It was administered with enough […]