Day: April 18, 2025

Last night I dreamed about bombs
beginning to fall, and braced for
the impending explosions,
but woke up before the bombs fell.

Though a dream, the feeling was
as real as if I were in a country
where bombs were always
about to fall.

I woke up relieved the falling bombs
were only a dream, and wondered
what that dream was really about

or what I’d seen or read about
during the day that might have
manifested in that dream.

Now I’m imagining how horrifying it
must be to live, or have lived, in a country
where bombs are always about to fall.

Bob Boyd

Sitting at my computer in front of a window
with the moonlight coming through,
I find myself thinking about you.

And I’m remembering how nice it was
being with you.

And what a wonderful part of my life those
seven years were.

Though our love ended when you got sick
and didn’t want to burden me

and left despite my forever vow to be there
always for you, I’m okay with our lost love now.

And though alone and over twenty years older,
I’ll go to my grave remembering you
and how much you meant to me.

Bob Boyd

A few weeks ago, I entered a donut shop
called Duck Donuts.

Though I rarely eat donuts and unlike
Häagen-Dazs ice cream, I have no
addiction to them.

But I was intrigued by the name, perhaps
partly because I like ducks.

I tried a plain donut to sort of test the taste
in its purer form instead of a donut with
all the bits and extras.

The donut was the best plain donut I ever
tasted, and I wondered if any other
donut shops had plain donuts as good
or better.

I like to experiment, so my plan was to
try plain donuts in other donut shops in
Greensboro, NC where I live.

I did a search with Yelp and saw donut shops
like Dunkin Donuts, Krispy Kreme, and Donut World

To my surprise, days later I got an email from
Yelp, “How was Donut World?”

Now I know Yelp isn’t psychic, so clearly it was
stalking me, but it’s stalking was faulty as
a fake psychic’s guesses, and I’ve not been
to Donut World so far.

Bob Boyd

I’m reading a poetry book beginning at the
end of it. but, trust me, I’m not a half wit.

What! You say that sounds odd. I have to agree,
trying to be an objective critic of me.

But hear me out and you might see the method
in my oddness is far from insanity.

I began by reading the book from the start,
but felt the poems had no heart.

So to in an attempt to put my dislike in the past,
I thought maybe the best were saved for last.

Now maybe that was crazy and my thinking was
hazy.

But like a crescendo, and I write this with no
innuendo, the poems at the ending were
better, more heartrending and mind bending.

Bob Boyd

It was thought in the west dragons were dangerous beasts
that had to be killed because of their fire-breathing threat.

But the dragons were really gentle creatures reacting to
the attacks upon them to protect themselves

as even any human would do if defamed and attacked
mercilessly.

Four wise and tendered-hearted women didn’t believe
the fake news and the hype about dragons.

They approached them without the preconceived notions,
the news and the hype had poisoned so many others with.

They approached them with respectful gentleness and disarming kindness,
and they tamed the dragons with love instead of subduing them with the sword.

Bob Boyd

I’ve never understood how a man could
rape a woman.

I’ve never understood how a man could
violate a woman despite her protests,
pleadings, cries and screams.

You have to be a soulless fucking monster,
evil and heartless as a goddamned demon
to attack and harm a woman like that,

to inflict emotional scars on her that I
imagine last for her entire life.

In my opinion, a rape is in a way worse than
a murder.

When murdered, you don’t have to live
with the anguish for the rest of your life.

And were I able to change the laws, I’d
make the penalty for rape as severe as
that of murder.

Bob Boyd

There might be life on a planet called K2-18b,
a planet that orbits a star 120 light-years away,
astronomers say.

A molecule on earth produced by living organisms like
marine algae was detected in the planets atmosphere,
astronomers have found.

Which led to the speculation that the planet might be
“covered with a warm ocean, brimming with life.”

Imagine if it were brimming with aliens unlike any
lifeforms we could ever have imagined.

A revelation I’ve been waiting for, proof of a planet
out of the estimated 50 sextillion planets that hosts
life less or more advanced than life on earth.

If that day comes in my lifetime, my hope is that life will be more like benevolent ETs than hostile Klingons.

Bob Boyd