Poems by Bob Boyd

In my youth, I had a friend
who was incredibly handsome
he probably could have had
boatloads of beautiful girlfriends
but he said he preferred
the plain janes
but his idea of plain janes
were anything but plain
describing them as plain
was a misnomer
to me, his plain janes
were far more appealing
then what he saw as
the beauty queens
besides as many know
the greatest beauty is
within the mind and heart
and not at all plain.

Bob Boyd

Hey, if you’re a ghost reading this
what’s up with haunting old houses?

Believe me, where I dead and disembodied
floating around with haunting options

I damn sure wouldn’t be hanging around
a dusty, boring old house

were I up for scaring the bejesus out of people
I’d find a more peopled haunt

maybe a night club with upcoming bands
and the embodied often acting crazy

but since I don’t imbibe spirits in this life
I’d probably find a better haunt

come to think of it, I’d probably float around
the planet and maybe explore other planets

instead of spending who knows how many years
or centuries stuck in a dusty old house.

Bob Boyd

A guy who doesn’t, I should write didn’t,
believe in the disembodied
explored an old abandoned house
the air chills, he senses evil
hears manical laughter
the door through which
he entered the house
slams shut with a thud
he cannot suppress his fears
tries to get the hell out of the house
he cannot open the shut door
struggles to open it
with all his strength
afraid he’s going to die
in that house and become
part of that evil
mercifully, he eventually
gets the door open
scrambles out of the house
leaps into the safety of his car
which does not start
zombie like ghosts begin
to approach his car
as his car grinds and whines
and still will not start
as if the spirits have control
over the engine of his car
until it finally starts
and he races far away
from the house never to return
and a believer in the disembodied.

Bob Boyd

Saw a YouTube true crime show
about a minster who killed his wive

married a new wife, seemed happy
but eventually killed her too

I know the allegedly devout have killed before
yet it always surprises when the religious kill

you would think they’d fear divine retribution
dying into something like a never ending hell

and I cannot understand how they could kill
why they do not have the inhibitor most have

against murdering another human being
perhaps they are psychopathic in the worst way

no qualms, no feelings, no restraints
taking a life easy, even if religious or a minister.

Bob Boyd

I’m not a church goer,
but I hate to see abandoned churches
I see many of them in the United Kingdom
in various YouTube videos
old houses of God turned to empty relics
no longer attended, God forgotten
some supposedly have ghosts in them
most are just dusty and empty
some have graveyards around them
or behind them
as if the church members
and the ministers
all died and are buried in those graves
with no children, no new members
to keep those dead churches alive.

Bob Boyd

I’d fish days
I’d fish nights
but I didn’t fish for food
I fished for sport
wasted the fish, let them die
but when I got older
I think early twenties
I couldn’t fish anymore
I couldn’t catch fish for fun
waste them, let them die
I feel that was evolutionary
I feel that was spiritual growth.

Bob Boyd

Often wonder why
we have to have
so many people
murdered in this world
maybe atheists are right
there is no God
it’s all just random
but if they’re wrong
if there is a God
why would the
Supreme Being
allow this to happen
especially in cases
where little children
are murdered?

Bob Boyd

Many young women posting photos
of themselves on Instagram
don’t know why they do this
can’t quite figure it out
and sure they all look nice
but to me their photos are like a mirage
their youthful looks short lived
like fading flowers in a meadow.

Bob Boyd

A trail of dead prostitutes in his wake
strangled to death in Austria
bodies left in forests
got out of prison early at age 40
had been imprisoned
for murdering a woman
became a famous journalist by day
a serial killer by night
killed prostitutes partly because
his mother had been a prostitute who
abandoned him as a child
probably also because
he was born a psychopath
Jack Unterweger.

Bob Boyd

I’ve had dreams where I thought I was still working.
How wonderful it was to wake up retired.

Bob boyd