Bob Boyd's Free Verse Poems

Seeing an elderly couple falling in love
just isn’t the same as young people falling in love.

You don’t see many movies about old love,
like you do with young love.

But, I believe falling in love has the same highs for the elderly as for the young.

However, the sad part is, the effects of aging
can creep in, illnesses, death at any moment.

Possibly a dementia obliterating one of the
elderly lover’s minds ending their love.

To me, the worst is with death closing in when one suddenly dies, the horror, the heartache.

However, for the brave, the romantics, maybe elderly love is worth it despite the risks.

Bob Boyd

Jane, although educated, chose to be
a homemaker wife.

Some women derided her, a sellout
instead of a girl boss,

settling for being a Stepford wife,
subservient to a man.

I say, the girl bosses are no better
than homemaker Jane.

I say, her job is possibly even
more important,

raising her kids as well as she can
a stay at home mother

always there for her children,
never a conflict with a demanding career

Besides whether a woman choses a
career or being a homemaker

both are equal opportunities to live
fulfilling lives.

The problem is the economics, some
families need two incomes

to survive in this hustle bustle world,
to afford even bare necesities.

Bob Boyd

Up early every day foraging the ground
to make a living, his currency, his pay,
worms, insects, grubs and snails,
fruit in shrubs and trees.

Never a complaint, never a gripe,
always on time for work everyday.
Can’t afford to take any time off,
never a vacation.

A robin’s work is never done.

Bob Boyd

Since I began writing poetry
about two years ago
I hear words with the ears of a poet
words I didn’t really hear before

for example

when I read the word dromadaire today
I like the way it sounded
so I decided to write a poem with that word in it

inside the body of a dromadaire
a rare nanobody dwells
according to a recent study
that rare nanobody
might treat brain disorders
Alzheimer’s and others
who would have thought
a dromadaire roaming the desert sands
could have such a priceless treasure within him.

Bob Boyd

She got involved with him despite his rough ways;
she saw something fixable in him.
Though seemingly born a bad boy, she saw a spark of
goodness in him.
I can work with that, she said to herself. I can make him the
man he should be.
But woe upon woes, instead of her fixing him, he broke her.

Bob Boyd

I remember how she was the center of my universe
and my entire life revolved solely around her.
Now decades later, she’s barely a blur,
only a rarely remembered memory.
The years and the decades uprighted my senses
instead of keeping me unbalanced and
languishing over a lost love.

Bob Boyd

Some say they will be too advanced,
too evolved for violence and war.
It would be great if those somes were
absolutely right.
But what if if despite all their technological
advancements, they were born to war and kill.
What if instead of lovable, harmless ETs,
they were like cold blooded Klingons.

Bob Boyd

It is said it’s wise to plan for the future
to have the “nestegg” when you retire
from the workforce.

Some people are just not planners,
and the future is too far away for them
to consider.

And sometimes all the planning for the
coveted nestegg comes to nothing;
many die before they retire.

I know I’m not being prudent, but I like
people who live for today, and get as
much fun in this life as they can.

But, without question, the planners
who live long enough to retire are
for sure the wiser of the two.

No worries about becoming impoverished
in old age, instead a comfortable life
in their remaining years.

Bob Boyd

Got all A’s, made the honor roll,
participated in many
extracurricular activities
graduated and went to college
worked part time to pay tuition
in a fast food restaurant
pay was insufficient
sacrificed her morals
became a stripper instead
in a striptease club
for far better pay
the sleaze in the club
eventually infected her
got addicted to drugs
conned into doing porn
ten years later no degree
a walking dead
drug addict
homeless in the streets
prostituting
to feed her addiction.

Bob Boyd

humans are busy
sometimes impatient
to get things done
dreaming dreams,
building futures,
fighting wars
conquering others
in wars and business

the patient ground
has no dreams
builds no future
has no wars
isn’t in a hurry
to outlive humans
and consume
them all.

Bob Boyd

A while back I heard of a cryptid called Dogman,
head of a dog, body like a big, muscled up human’s.

At first I dismissed it as nonsense or the mischief
of pranksters.

But with minimal research, I learned there are
Dogman sightings all over the US.

I saw the locations on an Internet map; it looked
easily like well over a hundred sightings.

There’s even a North American Dogman Project
run by people with impressive credentials, one a scientist.

However, skeptics label Dogman sightings
as misidentifications, hoaxes, or mass delusion.

For now, I’m siding with the skeptics, but it sure makes
me wonder if any of those sightings could be real,

or if these cryptozoological wonders are not only
periodically here, but interdimensional as well.

Bob Boyd

You’ve probably heard of the man in the moon
where some people think the moon sometimes

looks like it has the face of a man.

I can beat that.

Some people think there are real people or
more specifically aliens

living inside the moon, and that the moon
is hollow, which reminds me of people

who think the earth is flat.

I don’t believe any beings have taken up residence
inside the moon

but I kinda like the theory.

And, as sometimes happens with seemingly crazy beliefs,
imagine if one day it was discovered that this belief is true.

I’d like that, wouldn’t you?

Bob Boyd

Saw a YouTube video with the title reading
something like Aliens Won’t Be Able to Visit Us.

Now maybe there was a valid reason, and there
are other sources claiming aliens can’t reach us.

I won’t be bothering to read any of those sources
because I believe aliens are already here.

Besides, aliens advanced enough to visit us
would probably be so advanced that nothing

we know of could stop them, their knowledge
infinitely beyond ours.

Bob Boyd

I had a dream
about my father
who often seemed
to reject me
sometimes hit me
whom I hated for
many years
but eventually
forsake the hate
in the dream my
father gave me
a hug that tickled
me with delight
and I felt that I
needed to interact
more with him
I woke up with
that thought
in my mind
forgetting that
my father died
a long time ago.

Bob Boyd

It used to be wonderful
the love they shared.
Pity it faded with the
passing years.

Now they hate each other
fighting over the custody
of their two kids in court.

In more sobering times,
when for a moment
the hate briefly pauses
both bemoan the loss
of that wonderful love.

Bob Boyd