In a children’s hospital
has terminal cancer
not long left to live
miraculously she’s happy
the nurses and doctors
cannot understand it
wonder if she really
does not understand
that she is terminal
she knows she is dying
not worried about it
an angel returning to
her true home in heaven.
Bob Boyd
Born into a wealthy family
attended the best schools
his future shining bright
fell completely in love
with the wrong woman
she left him for another
shattered his young heart
never got over love lost
hung himself to death
at Harvard University
in his dorm room.
Bob Boyd
She was a famous actress once,
in the 1800s and 1900s,
considered one of the most
beautiful of her era.
Rich and famous men wanted
to be with her.
She received many awards for her
stellar acting skills.
Now hardly anybody knows
anything about her,
just old bones in the ground.
Bob Boyd
I used to occasionally write love poems
to no one in particular
no women i know
no women i knew
maybe a mystery woman
i would have liked to have known
maybe my heart was hungering
for that never found ideal love
whatever the reason
i stopped writing love poems
some time ago
maybe my T got too low.
Bob Boyd
After watching YouTube videos
of mountain goats
particularly the Alpine Ibex
i’m amazed at how they
can climb near vertical
mountain slopes
something few animals can do
i watch them and i fear they will fall
but they are too sure footed
and climb those slopes with ease
i’m blow away by how nature
has endowed them with that skill
and watching them scale those
mountain slopes is such a thrill
Bob Boyd
I only knew her for an evening
on a wasted weekend night
a quintessential flower child
she was high on something
i was drunk as hell
i made a date with her
for the next day
in a park not faraway
i was there that day
she was not
looking back decades later
i’ve got a feeling
it was better that way
and she may not even
be alive today.
Bob Boyd
You can kill the body
but you cannot kill the soul
when a person is murdered
I like to think that person
particularly a woman
murdered by a serial killer
or a deranged evil lover
goes to a place in the afterlife
where the way she went out
isn’t even a memory
doesn’t have any trauma
or lasting emotional scars
a place where none of
the evil things that happen
all over the world
are obliterated forever
in the peace love
and bliss of the afterlife.
Bob Boyd
She’s in the ER, 1 am
her husband has had
a heart attack
he fainted in the ER
and hurriedly they
wheeled him away
he’s on the exam
table clinically dead
she acts like she’s
worried about him
secretly she hopes
that son of a bitch
is permanently dead.
Bob Boyd
Her name was Teresa
and she wasn’t what
she seemed to be
he told her she was
not of this world
and he was more
right than he
had imagined
the first time he
kissed her
she abducted him
and took him
to her ufo
restrained and
probed him
then kissed him
goodbye and
dropped him
from the sky.
Bob Boyd
In a YouTube video, I Saw an Alpine Ibex Goat
climb a near vertical dam wall in the alps.
As I watched him climb that wall, it was like
standing on a building hundreds of feet
above the ground looking down with fear
in my trembling heart,
afraid that at any moment the Ibex would
fall off the wall over a hundred feet to
the ground and be crushed to death
from the impact on the rocks below.
Yet, like a human impossibly walking on water,
the ibex miraculously scaled the wall.
And it did it with what looked like a supernatural,
fearless, death-defying skill.
Hail Alpine Ibex, king of perilous heights!
Bob Boyd
Hey, American Dipper Bird,
how is it that they say you
can fly underwater?
How is it your eyelids
are white?
Do they provide you with
protection and underwater
vision when you close
your eye lids underwater?
And why are you such an
anomaly that you are called
an aquatic song bird, unlike
the other song birds who
cannot swim underwater?
And how is if you can stand
in freezing water and dip
your beak into it to forage
for food?
Also, one last thing. I’ve
read your color is a
“drab gray.”
I feel that’s an unkind
and thoughtless
description of your color.
I see your plumage as
a magnificent
light gray color
and I hope you
have a great day.
Bob Boyd
I believe it’s plausible
that like rivers
flowing to the ocean
all beings
aninamate
and inanimate
are flowing to
the ocean of bliss
aka
eternal bliss consciousness.
Bob Boyd
Sure it’s nice to have someone,
but, alas, in this world it won’t last.
If you don’t break up, death will
eventually break you up.
One way or the other heartaches
will ensue.
In some ways it’s better to have
no one.
In some ways it’s better to be free.
Bob Boyd
In my youth
I lived a more
turbulent life
often hectic
often crazy
now I have
a more
predictable life
never hectic
never crazy
it’s a solitary life
it’s a quiet life
and the peace
is superior
to the noisy life
of my youth.
Bob Boyd
Did this universe really have a beginning,
and will it have an ending?
Or does it have many beginnings
and many endings?
Will Shiva ever dance again,
the creation and the dissolution?
Or is the universe a never knowable
forever without a beginning or an ending?
Bob Boyd