Day: June 21, 2026

You always looked so beautiful
when I saw you at various events.
In retrospect, I think you were into me.
Though we didn’t know each other,
except for a few words from you.
I didn’t see the significance of those
brief words back then.
Besides, you were married, and I
was respectful of that.
But, oh how I wonder how things might
have been if you had been free
and really were into me.
And I still remember how beautiful you
looked when I saw you at those events.

Bob Boyd

He said he had no fear when he boldly
entered the forbidden hollow.
They warned him of invisible monsters
that lurked in the hollow at night.
Poppycock, he said and marched into
the darkness of it laughing.
A scream minutes later, and he was gone
and has never been found.
But sometimes at night folk say they
hear his invisible cries for help.

Bob Boyd

Salvador Dali had a wife
who was a marketing genius.
She turned him into a brand,
and they made a lot of money.
Thanks to her his fame spread,
and he became worldly renown.
His wife cheated on him with
many other men.
But he stayed with her despite
her many infidelities.
And he tried to make more
money to keep her.
It must have worked because
she stayed with him till she died.
Sadly, near the end of his life
Dali could no longer paint.
Tremors stole his artistry away,
his hands shaking too much.
At least he had more success
than most artists.
And though he died in 1989,
his fame endures.
And his surrealistic paintings
are worth millions today.

Bob Boyd

I remember her last resigned gasp,
The awful rattling in her throat
The end of her, the end of everything,
Without her, I wanted to die too.
For ten years I’ve had endless laments
Never ceasing in my love for her,
Never loving another woman,
True to her as if she never died.
Now with a deadly stage 4 cancer
My diseased life coming to an end
I hear a voice, see a pretty face
My Love smiling and waiting for me.

Bob Boyd

Stella, sixties star
soared in the skies
maybe too close
to the sun

all in hippie
dressed the part
flower prints, tie dyes
psychedelic colors
did LSD, meth and
other drugs too

A few bad trips
tired of freak outs
sought the Truth
In the spiritual oasis
mother India
found a guru
Shri Swami something

three years later
returned to Cali
enlightened
she claimed
looking crazier
more screwed up
then when on drugs

vegan thin to the bone
worryingly skeletal
then came the day
she claimed she had
siddhis (super powers)
I can fly she said

eyes lit like flashbulbs
sadhu dreads disheveled
kinda zombitized

a day later she flew
off a ten story building
and the Stella I loved
and will never forget
took her final trip
into the Great Unknown.

Bob Boyd

Li Po and Du Fu I admire what you do
or I should write did.

You poems are without peer
profound and so clear

It amazes me you wrote such
masterpieces of poetry way back
in the 8th century

If I could travel back in time
I’d like to be mentored by
both of you maybe on
top of the Green Mountains

And maybe if we had
the time and the daring
between creating works
of poetry in the literary
landscape of the Tang
dynasty

we could
go on a quest
for the dragon pearl.

Bob Boyd