Day: December 4, 2024

chipmunks are rarely seen
but when you see them
it’s such a wonderful treat
the cutest little creatures
that anyone could ever see
i’d like to have one as a pet
but feel it would be unfair
to keep such a free and
cute creature confined
so i’ll just have to see
them when I can and
be content with that

bob boyd

Hard to imagine that gargantuan beasts
known as dinosaurs populated the planet
millions of years ago.
Hard to imagine the earth has
existed that long ago.
Supposedly it has existed 4.5 billion years.
Hard to imagine how scientists know that.
Impossible to figure out
what this creation is all about.

Bob Boyd

The smell of freshly baked bread,
an aroma so incredibly delicious.
Once you taste it you know it’s
far superior to supermarket bread.
The only problem is
it tastes so incomparably good
that it could make you fat
by gorging yourself on it
day after day after day.

Bob Boyd

She met him in a church
right after her divorce.
She needed a guy to
fill her lonely life.
He asked her out
and she accepted.
After that first date
she disappeared
and the guy she
met left town
to attend another
church service
in another town
to find another woman
to rape and murder.

Bob Boyd

twenty years of marriage
and three kids
a perfect couple.
church goers,
family that prays together

all the markings of
a perfect marriage
upstanding citizens
husband a mayor
wife a professor

but the romance
died down in their
twenty year marriage
and they both
sought other partners

and joined the ranks
of all the broken
marriages and
many lost loves
and left each other

bob boyd

Hundreds of thousands of men dead on both sides
in a war that lasted over ten years.

Nobody won. They called a truce. Buried the dead
and mourned them.

Built monuments for them and declared the
end of the war a holiday.

If only they could have had a holiday for
peace and never gone to war.

Bob Boyd