Category: Poems for Grownups

Our grandma got her a skateboard And none of us know what to do. We’re all afraid she might get hurt. Because she’s almost eighty-two. We called her favorite doctor, Who is a veterinarian. He said that’s much too dangerous For an octogenarian. He told us that our Gram’s old bones Had gotten brittle as […]

Jerry’s mother told him That dark should hold no fear, “God’s given you an angel And he is always near.” But dark is just for monsters And Jerry liked the light. He feared to go out in the dark And always stayed inside at night. But it was Jerry’s evening job To shut the barnyard […]

I came on two Yankees talking, They talk English kinda funny, Said they wouldn’t live in Texas Not for any kind of money. They said that all of us Texans Talk real funny and way too slow. They said they often have to leave Before we finish with hello. I told them, “Laugh at how […]

“Don’t write a book of poems,” they said, “Right now we just don’t need it.” “Don’t write a book of poems,” they said, “Because no one will read it.” “Don’t write a book of poems,” they said, “It’s just a waste of time.” “Don’t write a book of poems,” they said, “Especially if they rhyme.” […]

It was first game of the season, There was excitement in the air. One team had much bigger players, It didn’t seem to be quite fair. I asked a lad from the small team If he had kept up with the score. He said his home team had zero, The other team had twenty four. […]