Category: Poems

Two countries went to war.
They bombed the hell out of each other.
Each country encouraged their young men
to slaughter the young men of the other country.
Millions died, many civilian casualties, even children.
Cemeteries filled to capacity, so many senselessly dead.
Tears fell like tsunamis on both sides.
Just people who wanted to live peaceful lives.
Saddled with heartaches for the rest of their lives.
Years later, the countries became allies, like friends.
If only they could have gotten to that place without
all the carnage and the millions dead.

Bob Boyd

To me, many politicians seem more like
opportunists than patriots.
They seem to have their own egos and
interests more in mind then the betterment
of their country.
Many don’t seem to give a damn about the
people they are supposed to represent.
Many seem to get rich as public servants,
which suggests a greater emphasis on
money than on public service.
And one has to wonder where that money
comes from and how it affects what interests
they get behind and promote.
Thank God some politicians are legitimate
public servants, true patriots working for the
betterment of the country and with genuine
concerns for the people they represent.

Bob Boyd

Many men and women are choosing AI
girlfriends and boyfriends over
relationships with real women and men.

You may think it’s weird, but I can see it.
Human to human relationships can be
disappointing. Many don’t work out.

Many men and women are tired of that.
Many want stability and hassle free
relationships, which Al substitutes
provide.

Always supportive, never insulting you,
never growing tired of you, never
cheating on you.

I think it comes down to peaceful,
loving relationships that are more
secure than many disappointing
human to human chaotic and
heartbreaking ones.

Bob Boyd

A wizened sage I met in Sedona, Ca.
Told me I could learn the mysteries of the universe
On the back of a bubble gum wrapper.
A skeptic, I guffawed. He smiled an indulgent smile
And handed me a neatly wrapped piece of
Double Bubble Cosmic Gum. I said, this is it?

He smiled and said open it and read it.
I opened it and saw nothing on the back of the wrapper
Until telepathically the words and the wisdom
Lit up my previously unbelieving mind, and I saw it all.

Then the sage told me to eat the gum
I did but after the first chew all the wisdom
Was erased from my mind, and the sage vanished
And I wondered if it had been only a dream.

But when I got back to Greensboro, NC, the
Bubble gum wrapper was still in my pants pocket
I tried to read it but it was just a bubble gum wrapper
With no wisdom left inside of it.
But I saw it all in a dream that night and woke
Up one with the universe, cosmically conscious.

Bob Boyd

It sounds terrifying to think of dying
and that being the end of you.
Even the thought of the obliteration,
that finality, is a terrifying prospect.
No more you. No more experiences.
All of you gone permanently forever.
But if I die and there is nothing, I am
in a place where I am good with it.
No more suffering. No more pain.
No more heartaches. No more
annoyances. No more diseases.
Just an end to all the tribulations
and the potential horrors in this life.

Bob Boyd

He set his toy boat into the stream.
It flowed faster than he thought it would.
He tried to catch it but he couldn’t.
Soon it was out of his sight.
And he didn’t know where it went.
It flowed and flowed and flowed.
from the stream to the river to the
ocean it flowed and flowed and flowed.
That little toy boat somehow made
its way past sharks and other big fish
that could have chomped it to bits.
And it found its way into the hands
of a happy little boy in China.

Bob Boyd

So many alleged sightings of cryptids
all over the USA and the world.
Could all these people claiming the
sightings be mistaken or liars?
Yet there seems to be no proof
any of these cryptids exist?
Thus they are reduced to urban
legends and conspiracy theories.
But imagine if they were all real,
and the reason no proof was
found is because they are all
elusively interdimensional.

Bob Boyd

Despite how cute they are,
rabbits have endangered lives.
They struggle just to stay alive.
Predators often stalking them.
Rarely a moment’s peace.
Lucky if they live full lives.
No wonder they’re always scared.
No wonder they have to hide.
Imagine always living like that.
Imagine at any moment a
predator could take your life.

Bob Boyd

Monsters in the movies
always get ended
and of course
they’re just fictional
unlike real monsters
outside the movies
rapists, murderers,
serial killers and
pedophiles
some who never
get ended
or even caught

Bob Boyd

Jenna took up with bad boy Benny.
She saw an iota of good in him.
She felt it was enough to save him.
She felt she could civilize him.
He said her loved her then hit her.
She suffered his violence for a while.
Each time he apologized.
But beat her again and again.
When she give up on Benny,
it was far too late to leave him.
When Jenna tried to escape,
she ended up beaten to death.

Bob Boyd

Sitting in a vibrant forest
song birds singing in the trees,
squirrels scampering on the ground,
I felt the spinning of the planet.
I heard the eternal hum of the cosmos.
I saw mysteries of which I cannot speak.
I felt a oneness with all things.
I experienced an incomparable bliss.
For a moment, I felt like a god among men.
Then the extraordinary experience passed,
and I was just another mere mortal
sitting on a rock in a teeming forest.

Bob Boyd

Tim was fated with physical and mental
health disabilities, which often made me
wonder why did a nice guy like him have
to suffer with dual disabilities when I and
others didn’t have to. The unfairness
always bothered me, and I’ve wondered
why in this world some suffer far more
than others. I cannot accept the theory
that its deserved bad karma, those
suffering people getting their just due.
I cannot accept that those unfortunate
people have those inflictions for a
greater purpose. I think it’s all random,
the good or bad luck of the draw.

Bob Boyd

Science has no proof of an afterlife
and when you’re dead that may be
the complete end of your existence.
Just as it doesn’t seem like an
insect would have an afterlife, maybe
it’s the same for human beings.
People who have been dead and
come back to life have inspiring
accounts of something more, tunnel
of light, life reviews, unconditional
love, mystical experiences, angels,
heaven, peace, bliss, love, et cetera.
These may be just caused by other
factors related to the brain shutting
down, running out of oxygen and
hallucinations that cause artificial
spiritual and afterlife experiences.
At 80 years of age, I’ve come to a
place where I don’t care if there’s
nothing there when you die, if all
that was you is obliterated forever.

Bob Boyd

She was popular in high school
a quite pretty and studious girl.
She joined the drama club and
found her passion in her life.
After high school, she moved
to Hollywood intent on being a
movie star.
After years of trying, she got
a role in a comedy movie with
famous actors, and it seemed
her career was on its way.
But she never had a decent role
after that, and in her forties
became a secretary for an
insurance company to make
a living at a job she didn’t like.
She failed in her life’s ambition.
Deep depression set in, and
sadly, she took her life, her
dead dreams too much to bear.

Bob Boyd

science disregards the commonalities
of peoples’ near death experiences
it alleges other factors are the cause of
all the common threads experienced
it claims oxygen deprivation causes
hallucinations and euphoric feelings
sudden neurochemical releases
of endorphins, vivid hallucinations
and dramatically altered perceptions
and spikes in brain activity can
cause intense mystical experiences
and temporal lobe activity that
might lead to out of body feelings
and encounters with divine figures
in other words when you are dead
you are dead and nothing more
according to the science skepticism
the most disappointing part of this is
maybe science is absolutely right

bob boyd

he plucked her out of poverty
paid her baby son’s medical bills
provided her with a better life
took her from the third world
to the advantageous first world
not long after all he did for her
she ungratefully left him
in search of more first world
splendors and advantages

bob boyd

stealthily navigating the cosmos
unseen, undetectable, invisible
scientists say they don’t exist
because they cannot see them
their technology too advanced
their intellects far superior
except when they materialize
briefly from time to time
in the air supersonically
and coming out of the sea
and surreptitiously
working with the military

bob boyd

At age, 60, Doctor Brown had finally
invented a concoction he called the
Youthful Elixir, a manmade fountain
of youth.

With his first drink, he loved the taste,
like a sweet cocktail.

When he finished the drink, in his mirror
he looked 10 years younger.

The effects exceeded his hopes, but
the elixir was too intoxicating due to a
heavy concentration of alcohol.

Doctor Brown, hooked on the elixir,
drank it all night, getting higher, happier,
and younger with each drink.

In the morning, all his elixir imbibed,
he woke up irreversibly a babbling baby
helpless, and equivalent to a new born babe.

Bob Boyd

two college girls go on a vacation
to a faraway land to hike in a
jungle by themselves
halfway through the hike
something goes wrong
only their backpacks are
found and the girls have
mysteriously vanished without
any signs of foul play or
animal predation
searches went on for weeks
dogs, trackers and the like
but the girls were never found
the locals claim UFOs were
often seen in the area where
the girls had hiked
the authorities rediculed the
rumors aliens had taken the girls
but somewhere the unconscious
bodies of the girls are imprisoned
in tall upright tubes for study by
alien scientists for their desire
to create a hybrid human alien
race of advanced beings
according to a strike force team
of remote viewers

Bob Boyd

It was to be a peaceful getaway
For Mr. and Mrs. Durham, a
vacation from their small town
in Idaho to Montreal, Canada.
Both in their 80s, they’d never
been out of Idaho. At an age
with death nearer, they wanted
a memorable getaway in their
waning lives. On the morning
of their flight to Canada, they
didn’t wake up. As fate would
have it, they took a flight into
the afterlife instead. Maybe
in spirit they went to Canada,
but I suspect they went to a
better destination instead.

Bob Boyd