Category: Poems for Grownups

He came running from the kitchen His index finger for a gun. “Bang! Bang! Bang! You’re dead, Uncle Ron!” He shouted back, still on the run. “Never point a gun at people, Just shoot monsters,” Uncle Ron said. “Okay, play like you’re a monster. Bang! Bang! Now play like you are dead.”

I weighed myself on a fortune scale It said, “You’re honest, loyal and true.” I felt real good until it said, “Looks like we got your weight wrong, too.”

We church kids all called her “Hippo,” Because we thought she weighed a ton. She always sat on the front row With her bratty unruly son. He liked to line the hymnals up And loudly make the sound of trains, Or take the offering envelopes And fold them all into airplanes. When he made Hippo […]

He was an inner city priest, in an inner city parish. He had a life long dream that anyone would cherish. A dream to build a shelter for the homeless on the street, Where they could sleep in safety and a place where they could eat. One day while he was praying, he thought the […]

Once upon a time a man, Although you might think it odd, Thought that he was sly enough, To actually outwit God. Now this was the poor man’s plan, How he would go about it. It is said this story’s true, Although I tend to doubt it. He said, “Dear God is it so, With […]