He returns to what he thought was an empty house
hears a sound inside a closet and gets frightened
grabs his gun and shoots his daughter accidentally
who popped out of the closet with a BOO as a joke
Bob Boyd

My free verse poems
He returns to what he thought was an empty house
hears a sound inside a closet and gets frightened
grabs his gun and shoots his daughter accidentally
who popped out of the closet with a BOO as a joke
Bob Boyd
Once a moving man
of flesh and blood
now an inert skelton
of decaying bones
Bob Boyd
Elongated skulls were unearthed in Peru
one hundred years ago
some think they might be extraterrestrial
but nobody knows for sure
Bob Boyd
After he nearly died from cancer
he got a surprising Zen attitude
an unexpected equanimity
the loss of his fear of death
Bob Boyd
In his teenage years he was trouble
kicked out of school many times
at age 21 he had a spiritual awakening
and became a monk in India
Bob Boyd
He’s an old man in hospice dying
a few minutes before he dies
he sees his deceased wife
waiting for him in the afterlife
Bob Boyd
She became a binge drinker in college
She always got drunk at bars
At 2am one night she stumbled out of one
and fell into a serial killer’s web
Bob Boyd
Most cats in the Philippines are feral
there’s no pampering for them
they scrounge for food in the streets
theirs is a hard luck life
Bob Boyd
Friends said he could do better
she wasn’t pretty enough for him
but his friends could not see
how beautiful she was beyond her face
Bob Boyd
She married a rich man
loved the money at first
got bored without love
left him for a true love
Bob Boyd