Poems by Bob Boyd

Dreams, a mishmash of
scenes and visuals
strange happenings and
puzzling occurrences
unknown people and
bizarre scenarios
most dreams seem to
make no sense
the whys and wherefores
vague or obscure
perhaps merely something
for the mind to digest
while the body is offline

Bob Boyd

His courage stirred with thoughts of glory,
He yearned to experience combat in a war.
He was young, invincible and courageous,
and he always loved movies about wars,
the glorious battles and the conquests.
But he wasn’t mentally prepared for the
horrors he saw in the many battles
he was engaged in.
Blood running in rivulets.
Arms and legs blown off.
Heads and bodies exploding.
Flesh ripped from faces and limbs.
The stench of death rising in the air.
The cries, moans and screams of the
wounded and the dying.
He came home from the war a hero.
But he was never the same again,
his days and nights plagued with the horrors
and the nightmares of all he saw in the war.

Bob Boyd

She greets the morning with her sweetness
and remains the same throughout her day.
She brings delight to all who meet her.
Her nature has always been that way.
I’ve often wondered if she were one of
those people who are angels among us
gracing the earth as humans in disguise.

Bob Boyd

Never forget you are only
here temporarily.
It can seem in forgetful
moments that you are
here forever.
God knows I’d forgotten
many times.
And didn’t live my
precious life as I would
have if I’d been more
cognizant of my
impermanence, but in
the end, perhaps it
matters little whether
you use your time
wisely or squander
it away.

Bob Boyd

Easily persuaded to follow
the lies of those in power.
Easily brainwashed to hate
the targeted people or race.
Never questioning.
Always following.
Morphing into a mindless
mass to do the bidding.
Their country or their
leader right or wrong
is what they think
like a wrongheaded
patriotic song.
Hitler made good use
of them when they
approved of or helped
with the slaughter of
six million
innocent people.

Bob Boyd

The woods were dark.
The night was eerie.
Strange sounds lit
up the darkness.
She wondered if
going camping by
herself had been a
dangerous mistake.
Too late she learned
she was right.
Her blood was
spattered all around
her camp site, and
the police are still
searching for her
body.

Bob Boyd

Handsome looks
Charming personality
Disarming smile
Tall and well built
All around nice guy
From a good family
With plenty of money
He had it all
Everybody liked him
Especially women
Had many girlfriends
Despite his advantages
Strangled eight women
And teenage girls
To death from 1974 to 1975
Got his highs from kills
Robert Reldan sentenced to
Life in prison – 1979
A monster born to kill
Died in 2014 in prison

Bob Boyd

Deep sea creatures dead bodies
never float to the surface
of the sea.

They sink to the bottom of the
sea.

The high pressure
the density
the solidity
of the sea
at those depths

keeps its own.

Bob Boyd

He always went hiking alone
despite knowing people
shouldn’t hike alone in case
of an accident or unexpected
dangers.

He didn’t need that kind of
help.
He was freakishly strong,
a seasoned survivalist, and
he always armed himself
with a gun.

Despite his bravado and his
preparedness, he felt an eerie
feeling that day when he
hiked in a forest he was
unfamiliar with.

He experienced something
he’d never experienced before.

The forest became ominously quiet.
No birds sang. No insects hummed.
Darkness spread across the
forest.

Frightened, he reached for his gun.

Too late.

In a millisecond, he was snatched
out of this existence by a
monstrous entity that resembled
a giant praying mantis and
devoured him in an unknown
dimension.

The authorities. The trackers.
The search and rescue dogs. The
hundreds of volunteers. Never
found a trace of him.

Bob Boyd

He worked for a state government
in the USA with the protection of a
union.

And a more annoying person, you
probably could not find.

He abused his union protection
when he had an interview to work
at another city for the state
government, and his future
supervisor was late for the
interview.

He reported her for her tardiness
to the state government’s home
office, not a wise move.

Because of the union rules, she
had to hire him despite seeing him
as an impossible person to have
to supervise or even get along
with.

Things got irreversibly worse.

At the mandatory Friday meetings
he always asked annoying
questions that ticked off the
supervisor and her supervisor.

Eventually he went too far with
his errant behavior, and despite
his union protection, he got fired.

But, damn, he made those boring,
mandatory Friday meetings so
much fun, and myself and the
other state employees always
looked forward to them.

Bob Boyd