Poems by Bob Boyd

Never seen you in
real life

Don’t know if you
were real or
imaginary

One thing I know
for certain

You were incredibly
nice

It seemed we could
have had a
romantic relationship

But I know as
always happens
when I have a
dream about a
woman

I’ll never see
you again

Bob Boyd

From the beginning,
they knew they were
meant for each other

Everything in common
liked the same music
enjoyed each others
jokes

Fell in love
immediately
Got married
all went
well

Years past

Boredom set in

Little things about
each other annoyed
them

Starting hating
each other

Until

Love flew away
and so did they

Bob Boyd

Lightning igniting night skies
Rain bursting from dark clouds
Wind howling
Trees awakening
Puddles emerging
The pitter patter of windows
assaulted by frantic rain drops
Umbrellas unfolding
Animals and birds hiding
Monsoon erupting

Bob Boyd

She had a feeling she shouldn’t get on the plane that
day. She had had a dream about a plane that crashed.

But she had to get to an important business meeting
too far away to drive to and get there on time.

Nervously, she boarded the plane and felt it was
going to crash every time it hit a jarring air pocket.

But the flight arrived safely at her destination, and
later that day she saw in the news a plane crashed

at the airport an hour after her flight had landed,
the airplane crash she had seen in her dream.

Bob Boyd

She Had a Way with Animals

Paula had a certain magnetism with animals
dogs and cats always approached her on the
streets as if she were a long lost friend.

My dog, Bo, liked her more than me despite
the fact that I was the one who fed and housed
Bo and rescued him from a dog pound.

But the most amazing example of Paula’s
animal magnetism was when we when
camping in upstate New York and a family
of deer gathered around her as if she were
one of them.

But ran off when the saw me, and I don’t
even hunt. Foolish as it was, I felt a little
jealous of Paula’s gift with animals that
day.

But I was as drawn to her as the animals
and chided myself for being jealous of
Paula’s incredible charisma with animals.

Bob Boyd

When she reached ninety years of age,
she couldn’t believe how the years
went by so fast.

Highlights of her life had become
barely memories, as if they never
happened.

Many parts of her life she could no
longer remember. The decades had
erased them.

Now as death approaches, thinking
about what she remembers of her life,
she wonders what was the point of it all.

Bob Boyd

If I could believe in a Satan, it would explain
why things like this happen:

Little girls in Thailand kidnapped or sold
into prostitution.

In rare cases, innocent children killed by a
parent or both parents.

Children sex trafficked in many countries.

Women raped and murdered.

Mass shootings of adults and children.

Terrorists bombing innocent people to death.

Thousands killed in wars.

Broken dreams and broken hearts all
over the world.

Mean as hell people.

But since I don’t believe in a Satan, I cannot
understand how a loving God, that I believe
exists, could ever allow all these evil things
to happen in this bedeviled world.

Although, I believe when I die, I’ll find out.

Bob Boyd

Seeing a beautiful young woman at 80
is different for me.

Instead of seeing only her beauty,
I see her fast forwarded into the future
when her beauty,

like the transitory nature of life,
will be gone.

And I see the older woman in
the making within her.

If my vision were better, I would
see the skeleton, the death
beneath her beauty

and the fact that beauty,
like one’s life, is as if illusionary
when it is no more.

Bob Boyd

At age 16, sudden fear of death
Despite the fear
He went into the fear
Simulated Death
And Kaboom
He experienced
A Full blown awakening
of the eternal Self
Years later
People from all over the world
Sought Wisdom from him
And felt his palpable
Spiritual radiance
The life changing
cosmic energy
Radiating out of him
Charging seekers up
With profound Peace
And ineffable bliss

Unlike most of the
Gurus I read about
Whose lives I followed
Never heard or read of
Any sexual scandals
Connected to him
In my opinion
He seemed like a saint
The real deal

Bob Boyd

You are offered a senior discount for the first time in a store.
You bend over and hear yourself grunt like never before.
Doctors become younger than you.
Even if you have stayed slim, you have more body fat.
For the first time in your life you start having health problems
and for the first time in your life have to take medications.
A fall becomes more likely and could kill you.
The sun becomes like an enemy that could cause skin cancer to
your aged and more vulnerable skin.
You might be all alone even if you have family.
The worst, you find yourself in a nursing home that you never
imagined you’d be in, and you are no longer able to take care of yourself.
I’d rather be dead than to get old like that.

Bob Boyd