Long red orange beak
like a scimitar sword
built for picking
insects out of trees
metallic-green black bird
with small white streaks
red orange feet as well
as large as 17 inches
loud cackling chatter
sounds a bit alarming
saw one for the
first time today
South African bird cam
many unique birds there.
Bob Boyd
I saw a fox last night on a wildlife cam
eating food left for wildlife animals
since I hadn’t seen a fox in a long time
I saw the fox with new eyes
he looked little and cute to me
despite his less than stellar reputation
like the “fox in the chicken coop” cliche
and I wish I lived somewhere where
I could leave food for a fox and maybe
gradually reduce its natural fear of me
and tame it enough to pet it.
Bob Boyd
It’s not by chance
that you came here
it was your destiny
so some websites read
I never believed that nonsense
I saw it as a ploy
maybe to induce one
to join a soul snatching cult
or to buy whatever was being
sold on that assuming website
I haven’t see any websites
like that in years
I saw them in the past
some cons people don’t forget
more so if you they got swindled by one.
Bob Boyd
I see at least 30 birds on a bird feeder
in a live youtube video
each hustling to get some seeds
some pecking others
even birds have bullies
I wonder if birds have psychopaths
maybe the bigger, predatory ones
like hawks that savage song birds
I’m not thinking vultures
though I can see how you
would think I was given they’re
scavengers of the dead
with near macabre appearances
but I just see them as like
janitors of the planet
cleaning up all the dead messes
without a shred of evil in them.
Bob Boyd
he couldn’t believe how fast his life had gone by
I heard of that in my youth
and it always stayed with me
now that I’m probably as old as he was
when he said it, I know it’s true
oh so true, as my life keeps speeding by
as if Death can’t have me fast enough.
Bob Boyd
To him, she was incredibly beautiful
he felt blessed when her eyes met his
when they talked for a long time
the connection was joyfully amenable
until she started becoming unhinged
and parroting political nonsense
that she’d been spoon fed daily
blindly accepted and believed
brainwashed with misinformation
designed to shape her outlooks
and use her like a useful idiot
he couldn’t abide that flaw in her
he couldn’t reason with her
he couldn’t open her eyes to truth
he could see her brainwashed views
were cemented too deeply in her
he had to bid her goodbye.
Bob Boyd
I don’t know if reincarnation is factual
I do believe it’s possible
in the past I felt I was once a Hindu monk
another time a lord in England
once a cave dweller in a primitive past
now I think these were just imagings
now I am not sure if life is a one shot or many
supposedly there were experiments with kids
who were able to remember past lives
skeptics say the results were questionable
if reincarnation is not real, the worst would be
if dead was just dead, no more you, no more me
but speaking honesty, I’ve reached a point
where I’m perfectly okay with that outcome
perhaps that’s a kind of enlightened acceptance
I don’t know for sure; maybe I’m just tired of living.
Bob Boyd
Supposedly some places are full of ghosts
why that would be is a mystery to me
and why would ghosts want to gather in certain haunts
and are they at the haunts and elsewhere in the afterlife at the same time?
do they, so to speak, expire after a certain amount of years
and what keeps them tethered to their haunts?
it’s all a mystery to me that I believe will be revealed when I join the spirits on the other side.
Bob Boyd
Geese are flying overhead
ants are marching on the ground
minnows are swimming in the water
all of them like many humans
live and move in groups
unlike me, a lone wolf,
who lives and moves alone.
Bob Boyd
When Franky got drunk,
he got crazy
beer muscles as if
on super steroids
would fight anyone
even drunk he never lost
often when under the influence
he’d say he could kick the shit
out of a polar bear at our local zoo
his friends thought that was funny
250 pound Franky going
mano a mano with
a 900 pound polar bear
except one night when Franky
said he was going home
after getting crazy drunk
he drove to the zoo instead
in the news the next day
the police reported a man broke
the polar bear’s jaw
before the polar bear
tore the man to pieces
at least Franky got a good
sucker punch in. RIP Franky.
Bob Boyd