Short Grumps Poems

There are ghosts in her closets, ghouls on her stair.
If you visit my grandma grump, it is best you beware.
I’ve seen a see-through body with half a head.
It looked curiously like my deceased cousin, Little Ned.
No one else has seen these ghosts, it is a fact, and true.
I know this is curious and peculiar to me too....

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Signs Of The Times
Miracle Man
5/3/2024

Our lives will experience many speed bumps,
Designed to move us from the path we travel.
Perhaps God’s moving us away from our grumps,
Before our present path causes life to unravel.

America is polarized, and severely divided,
The story that each days news cast sends.
But I can’t worry because tomorrow’s decided,
and the Bible tells me how this story ends.


Mark 13:8 KJV

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the sunspots ensconced
behind howdy-do curtains
a cockcrow in lace

white watering can french blue
white sprouts of ivy deep green
unhackneyed eggs bright brown
the pale yellow sun flickers snow

and no one wears silk nightgowns
as knees fall, and wrinkles like weeds
are read on the backside of palms
that hurry the yolks and sizzle
the bacon, pour coffee into old cups

one for the geezer who grumps
but puckers up for his buttercup...

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The doll who could was confident in every direction.
Her enthusiasm and excited joy spread like an infection.
The grumpiest grumps in the world could not stay mad
With the doll who could around and this made me glad.

I took her to school, I took her to the playground and work.
She went to the mall where rappers were starting to jerk.
They stopped spouting mean stuff and talked about candy, cotton.
She had that effect on people, they all stopped feeling rotten....

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