Month: January 2025

He fell for her devious ways.
She just wanted his money.
Blinded by her finagling charms,
he thought she loved him
for the decent man he was.
His decency meant nothing
in her dollar sign eyes.
He was a mark and nothing
more than an ATM machine
that she could withdraw
from for all of her life.

Bob Boyd

He spoke his truth about the military and got fired for it.
He wrote a book about what his truth was,
Pointing out the problems with the military that weakened it
and got a better government job correcting all those problems.

Bob Boyd

He loved his dog,
but of course
he loved his
wife more.

A few years
later his wife
no longer loved him
and left him for
another man.

His dog remained
faithful and stayed
with him until
his dog died.

Sometimes a dog
is better
more loving,
more truthful,
more faithful
than a spouse.

Bob Boyd

Some call him a common man.
He’s more than that.
He builds the cities.
He repairs the cars and trucks.
He labors in the factories.
He works on the farms.
He does all the jobs
the rich don’t have to do.
He’s a patriot.
He’s not protesting
or hating his country.
He serves in the military
often given his life
for his beloved country.
He’s the nuts and the bolts
of all countries in the world
putting everything together
maintaining and repairing
and keeping it all
clean and in good
operational condition.
He’s the soul and
the heart of his country
We’d be nowhere without
the everyday man.
Hail to him and
everyday men everywhere.

Bob Boyd

Some women
ridiculed her
because she
chose to be
a traditional wife
staying home
cooking meals
having kids
attending church
loving her family

The women who
ridiculed her
had no husbands
worked insane
career hours
thought they
were superior
to her being
just a stay at
home wife
thought she
sold out to
being only a
wife and doing
what she wanted
in life

Maybe what
she did in
being just a
wife raising
kids right
was more
important
in this life
than trying to
be more and
buy more
and having
less time to
raise kids
right.

Bob Boyd

people bragging about things
that used to be embarrassments
that they used to be ashamed of

people awarded with some fame
for classless and indecent acts
few awarded with some fame
for noble and gracious acts

in this ever spinning world
many are out of orbit with
what used to be decency

bob boyd

happy to hang up my hat
on this dying life that is mine
at this temporary moment
with the expiring breaths
and the failing heart beats
will recap in a new world
of afterlife light and love
adios to impermanence
hello to permanent eternity

bob boyd

drifting through this life
found some purpose
had some successes
made many mistakes
high times and low times
happy times and sad times

could have done better
foolishly rebellious
in his wayward youth
missed opportunities
damaged reputation
screwed up choices
many hard knocks
by the end of his life
straightened out
helped countless others

bob boyd

I thought multiculturalism was great
until I realized it’s not so great if
if you let people into your country
who disagree with your politics
and refuse to assimilate peacefully
who desire to bring you down
who establish their own countries
within your country’s borders
and hate your country and you

Bob Boyd

One world government
All world loses
Your country’s hands
in one biased entity
that may not have
your country’s welfare
in their indifferent
power hungry hands
The EU is the example
bureaucrats forcing
countries to fall in
line with whatever
they demand regardless
if it’s destructive to you

Bob Boyd

Through many loves
and some marriages
lasting love eluded him,
like a bird fleeing a feline,
like a felon fleeing a fed.

Just when it seemed he’d
found true and lasting love,
like a mirage sooner or
later it had vanished.

Steadfastly he tried again
and again and again
but like a will-o’-the-wisp
it faded away and vanished
in the sobering day of
yet another forlorn love.

Bob Boyd

Maybe it’s only about procreation.
Insects, fish, animals, humans
all do it, advancing their species.
Maybe all the human fuss about
all the human affairs and news
and all the self importance
isn’t more important than the
affairs and news of all the
other species deemed lesser
than deemed greater humans.

Bob Boyd

Ikkyu wrote something about how there was a skeleton
propping up the body of the woman you are fondling.
I found that a little too real, unsettling thought,
not that I’m fondling any women in my dwindling days
but I find it close to macabre to think of a woman
as just flesh propped up by bones.
Though I have to concur, Ikkyu certainly made a point
about the impermanence of humans, love and life.

Bob Boyd

Vic lacked the Midas touch
unlike his friend, Benny.
Benny had the knack
for making money easily.
Everything he tried
became successful and
profitable.

Vic couldn’t succeeded
at anything he tried
and went bankrupt
over and over like a
natural born loser.

Maybe people like
Benny have more
luck than others who
try the same things
and try them the same
ways but fail miserably.

Whatever the case, it’s
unfortunate that some
have it and some don’t.

Bob Boyd

A wife and a mother, she lost her mind when Trump got elected.
She screamed and acted like a lunatic and ran into a wall
while her husband in the background told her to calm down.

I wondered how he could have married a woman so unhinged
and how long their marriage would last after she acted like a lunatic.

Her craziness didn’t bode well for him. She probably was given
to over reactions about other things.

And I suspect the day would come when she’d blow up too much
and tax her husband’s patience beyond any human’s limits.

And he’d finally reach his breaking point and get the hell
away from his wife’s tripwire lunacy.

Bob Boyd

She felt she was more important
that the rest of us.

She always paraded around in
fancy clothes.

She never spoke to us,
like a first class snob.

I wondered what nonsense made
her so self-obsessed.

I wonder what nonsense makes
people act like her.

Imagine going through life thinking
you’re better than others.

Imagine how limited a life
that would be.

And I wonder if she ever got married
and woe to her husband if she did.

Bob Boyd

She said she was all for the F word.
That was fine with me.
I don’t care about swears,
but why didn’t she spell or say
it out if she was fine with it.
Maybe she really had some
residual resistance to it and
she wanted to seem cool.
I didn’t care either way
after all the F word is
just an S word.

Bob Boyd

She gets up every morning
dresses and goes to work teary-eyed.

She sees her work as work therapy
to get over the love she threw away

with a dishonest player she met on Facebook,
who had her and dumped her

after she left her husband of 20 years for him.
She tried to get back with her husband

but he wasn’t having any of it.
She lost his love and trust forever.

And there’s no chance of her husband
after taking her back.

He cannot forget or forgive her
for exhibiting herself on Facebook,

casting herself and her wares into the sea of men
to lure their attentions and comments into her page,

disrespecting and disgracing her loving husband, like
a virtueless, attention seeking single woman.

Maybe the loss, the hard knock, will benefit her,
and she’ll make better choices with the next man in her life.

After all everybody makes mistakes
and some people become better because of them.

Bob Boyd

Remembering and thinking
about the great song
Send Me an Angel.

Who couldn’t use
having an angel sent to them?

Imagine if you could request
angelic assistance when you
desperately needed some
Divine intervention.

For example, the love of your
life has just passed away
and you’re at the lowest
point of your life and
you request desperately
needed help.

Then the heavens part.
An angel drops down
into your life and
offers you solace and
tells you something like
he or she is in a better
place and not dead in
the glorious afterlife.

And that you and your
significant other will be
together again one day.

You sigh happily and
feel some Divine energy
stream out of the angel
and into you. And you
feel the greatest peace
and happiness of your life.

Bob Boyd

a youtube influencer decided to take a trip to china
as an american, he felt some fear at going
into communist enemy territory
a wrong word mistaken for political slander
might land him in a chinese slammer

to his surprise he didn’t suffer any hate
the people who interacted with him
were cheerful and pleasant

sad opposing governments
with different ideologies
can’t be as cheerful and as pleasant
and just want to get along
as those accepting and friendly
nice chinese people

bob boyd