Category: Poems

I’ve had dreams where I thought I was still working.
How wonderful it was to wake up retired.

Bob boyd

Woman-less now for years, sometimes I remember
women I was romantically involved with in my life

and damn! for better or for worse, they
sure made my life more interesting

through, laughter, joys, heartaches and tears
they brought fascinating times to my years

and despite the disappointments, the heartaches,
the risks and uncertainties

sometimes, though rarely, I think I’d like to experience
some of those times again

as I remember how wonderful it was to feel a woman’s
tender touch, to see her eyes looking lovingly at me.

Bob Boyd

In 1999, forestry workers claimed to have seen
a UFO hovering over a herd of elk

supposedly one elk got separated from the herd
with the UFO silently, purposely, following it

moments later, the elk got sucked up into the UFO
without any signs of sliding doors or apertures

skeptics believe the forestry workers made the story up
maybe to spoof people who would believe them

I am one of those people who believe them
based on what I read about the sighting

based on all I’ve learned about aliens and many
UFO sightings all over the world.

Bob Boyd

My YouTube page is full of videos of dead women
young women murdered by evil, soulless men
my heart breaks for all these young women
who were often happy in their photos enjoying life
before they were brutally robbed of their precious lives
because all these women being murdered
outrages and saddens me so much
I’ll probably write a hundred more poems about it
I’ll never stop wondering why we have to have
rampant, unrestrained evil in this passing existence
and why young women in nearly incalculable numbers
have to have their lives ended by bloodthirsty monsters
instead of lives free from the horrors inflicted upon them
and I also often wonder hundreds of times or more
where’s the God of love in all of this?

Bob Boyd

His girlfriend was obsessed with ghosts
always watching ghost hunter shows
always reading about ghosts
he felt her obsession was a bit much
in the category of the macabre
especially when as he predicted
ghosts began appearing in their home
her obsession had drawn them in
she was quite elated; he was not
she stayed in the house, happy
he moved out, frightened
unable to be with her and her ghosts
though young, she died months later
he believed killed by the ghosts.

Bob Boyd

Long red orange beak
like a scimitar sword
built for picking
insects out of trees
metallic-green black bird
with small white streaks
red orange feet as well
as large as 17 inches
loud cackling chatter
sounds a bit alarming
saw one for the
first time today
South African bird cam
many unique birds there.

Bob Boyd

I saw a fox last night on a wildlife cam
eating food left for wildlife animals
since I hadn’t seen a fox in a long time
I saw the fox with new eyes
he looked little and cute to me
despite his less than stellar reputation
like the “fox in the chicken coop” cliche
and I wish I lived somewhere where
I could leave food for a fox and maybe
gradually reduce its natural fear of me
and tame it enough to pet it.

Bob Boyd

It’s not by chance
that you came here
it was your destiny
so some websites read

I never believed that nonsense
I saw it as a ploy
maybe to induce one
to join a soul snatching cult
or to buy whatever was being
sold on that assuming website

I haven’t see any websites
like that in years
I saw them in the past
some cons people don’t forget
more so if you they got swindled by one.

Bob Boyd

I see at least 30 birds on a bird feeder
in a live youtube video
each hustling to get some seeds
some pecking others
even birds have bullies
I wonder if birds have psychopaths
maybe the bigger, predatory ones
like hawks that savage song birds
I’m not thinking vultures
though I can see how you
would think I was given they’re
scavengers of the dead
with near macabre appearances
but I just see them as like
janitors of the planet
cleaning up all the dead messes
without a shred of evil in them.

Bob Boyd

he couldn’t believe how fast his life had gone by
I heard of that in my youth
and it always stayed with me
now that I’m probably as old as he was
when he said it, I know it’s true
oh so true, as my life keeps speeding by
as if Death can’t have me fast enough.

Bob Boyd

To him, she was incredibly beautiful
he felt blessed when her eyes met his
when they talked for a long time
the connection was joyfully amenable
until she started becoming unhinged
and parroting political nonsense
that she’d been spoon fed daily
blindly accepted and believed
brainwashed with misinformation
designed to shape her outlooks
and use her like a useful idiot
he couldn’t abide that flaw in her
he couldn’t reason with her
he couldn’t open her eyes to truth
he could see her brainwashed views
were cemented too deeply in her
he had to bid her goodbye.

Bob Boyd

I don’t know if reincarnation is factual
I do believe it’s possible

in the past I felt I was once a Hindu monk
another time a lord in England
once a cave dweller in a primitive past

now I think these were just imagings
now I am not sure if life is a one shot or many

supposedly there were experiments with kids
who were able to remember past lives
skeptics say the results were questionable

if reincarnation is not real, the worst would be
if dead was just dead, no more you, no more me

but speaking honesty, I’ve reached a point
where I’m perfectly okay with that outcome

perhaps that’s a kind of enlightened acceptance
I don’t know for sure; maybe I’m just tired of living.

Bob Boyd

Geese are flying overhead
ants are marching on the ground
minnows are swimming in the water
all of them like many humans
live and move in groups
unlike me, a lone wolf,
who lives and moves alone.

Bob Boyd

When Franky got drunk,
he got crazy
beer muscles as if
on super steroids
would fight anyone
even drunk he never lost

often when under the influence
he’d say he could kick the shit
out of a polar bear at our local zoo

his friends thought that was funny
250 pound Franky going
mano a mano with
a 900 pound polar bear

except one night when Franky
said he was going home
after getting crazy drunk
he drove to the zoo instead

in the news the next day
the police reported a man broke
the polar bear’s jaw
before the polar bear
tore the man to pieces

at least Franky got a good
sucker punch in. RIP Franky.

Bob Boyd

In a city in Britain
a man makes
an innocent
social media post
a day later
six police show up
at his door
and say
someone found
your post offensive
you’re coming with
us to the police station
they grill him for hours
let him go with a warning
anymore posts or
comments like that
and you’re
going to be arrested
and most likely
sent to prison

welcome to 1984
in 2026 Britain

it used to be said
God save the king
now it’s
God save Britain.

Bob Boyd