Four Verses Only 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