Category: Poems for Grownups

It’s the way I make my living Calling people on the phone. I could hear a lot of voices So she wasn’t home alone. She was speaking in a whisper. I could barely hear her voice. So I asked for either parent Leaving her to make the choice. She said, “Both my folks are busy. […]

My dietitian said to stop My candlelight dinners for four. He said I’m gaining too much weight And not to have them any more. I asked, “Why not, one has to eat, A meal’s a meal, why should you care?” He said, “A meal for four is good But there should be three others there!”

He was a country preacher, With a country preacher’s zeal. His earnings were quite small Sometimes a single meal. Attendance was erratic, His congregation small. But when all thirty came at once, They barely fit inside the hall. Then one snowy Sunday morning One old rancher named Jerome, Was the only one to show up, […]

His wife went shopping at the Mall, So very much to his distress. He said, “Go look, but just don’t buy, You sure don’t need another dress.” But then she found the perfect gown, It cost too much and she knew it. So when her husband asked her why, She said the Devil made her […]

Our loving grandson came to see us, He brought a girl that we should meet. That he would visit us from college Itself was really quite a treat. He introduced us to his girlfriend A perfect match for him we knew. The bags they carried were not presents She had brought her laundry too. We […]