In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books

Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master

We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,

I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me

A student asks the old poet why he has spent so many years writing. The old poet says no one’s asked him that before. He needs a minute to answer.

The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year

If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

Can you hear me in the bunker, Le… Sorry to hear ISIS has you in a… But I’m delighted to know you’re… camouflaged in your bunker with an… Now you’re telling me ISIS is th…

After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney

Beautiful lady in the checkout lan… is spotted by Roscoe, a wealthy ma… wandering in Walmart. He admires her chocolate hair, bonbon eyes, vanilla creme complexion, a walk

If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add

After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet

The weather report the night before said a foot of snow maybe more, heavy and wet.