Day: November 29, 2024

His friends told him to stay out of the
place in the park after dark that
was known as The Triangle.

He went there on a dare in 2006
He went there on a bet that
he would never make it out.

He even said he’d camp there
on a full moon night to prove
nothing unholy would occur.

When he didn’t return the next day
people were not surprised that
The Triangle had got him.

They found his tent and his provisions
and his abandoned car with
no signs of him anywhere.

They didn’t know it was all a ruse
and that he was on his way to Europe
to escape his wife with a new life.

He met up with the woman from Russia
he fell in love with on an online dating site
and people still think he’s a missing 411.

Bob Boyd

He had an unsettling feeling
walking alone in the moonlight
along the paved path in
the large wooded park.
Then he heard the horrifying howl
and saw the huge wolf-like creature
standing on two feet and growling.
He ran like his feet had wings
at incredible fear-fueled speed
and didn’t stop or look back
until he was safe in his car
speeding away in the night.

Bob Boyd

She basked in lunacy.
She reveled in madness.
It seemed to suit her.
She wore it well.
Though her behavior
was often strange
and her manner
was often bizarre,
she wrote the
greatest poems
and painted the
greatest pictures.
In some ways
her lunacy was
like a God-given
miracle gift and
she became as sane
as the sanest
when she was
put on meds.
And lived a
good life despite
being fated
with what to
some seemed like
an affliction.

Bob Boyd