He went on a lion safari
in South Africa
to get some photos of
those magnificent beasts
he got out of his jeep
and got twenty meters
close to the peaceful lions
for an optimal photo
the lions began stirring
even better he mused
but he failed to realise
his fatal error when
a roaring lion traversed
the twenty meters in
three terrifying seconds
too late for him to escape.
Bob Boyd
Does romantic love endure
or even exist
in the unknowable afterlife?
Is romantic love transient
like this earthly life is?
Is romantic love forever
two hearts eternally
united, soulmates
and love ever after?
Or as it seems to be with
all the other species
is romantic love merely
for procreation and the
advancement of our
human species?
God only knows.
Bob Boyd
He sits at his computer
remembering past loves.
But he can’t pine over
any of them, as if they
never happened at all.
Like everything else,
the love he once had
for each of them
has been swept away
in the tides of time.
Bob Boyd
Everyday in America
dozens of people are murdered
what the hell kind of a world
are we living in?
and hell is the operative word
for all these murdered people
who go out of the world that way
and if there’s a God of love
where’s the love in all these killings
but as I think about it, killing
happens all throughout creation
insects, fish, animals all killing
even weeds and plants kill
all under a God of love above
unless there’s just a God
that’s impersonal and everything
that happens on earth is random
or maybe there’s no God at all.
Bob Boyd
The daughter of the mayor
in her small town
married to the chief of police
a substitute teacher
hot as hell
gets involved with a student
a 15-year-old kid
now she’s gone to jail
for a six year sentence
but she’s only one of many
of the female teachers
sexually abusing students
what the hell has happened
to female teachers nowadays?
Bob Boyd
Yet another true crime show
where a woman gets murdered
this time an innocent teacher
murdered by a guy she met in a bar
the number of young women
who get murdered in these crime
shows is nearly numberless
woe to all these women taken
brutally out of this world
curses on all the male monsters
who murderously take their lives.
Bob Boyd
They had an open marriage
the fun and games were going well
spicing up the marriage with plenty
of new and exciting partners
everything was terrific and wonderful
loving their alternative lifestyle
until they had a ferocious argument
about the ground rules
then the husband lost his temper
and his wife shot him to death.
Bob Boyd
He felt he loved her more than any other
man ever could when he was a budding man
in his teenage years.
She left him for another, broke his heart
in jaggard pieces that never repaired
until he met her forty years later,
her beauty diminished, his vision
unclouded, seeing clearly the woman
she always was,
he realized he never lost the love of his
life she never had been, except in his
unseasoned, wide-eyed teenage years.
Bob Boyd
I imagine a woman’s beauty
is a two-edged sword
a blessing and a curse
on the one hand it
can grant her advantages
on the other hand it
could make her self obsessed.
Bob Boyd
I can see how some cultures
thought the sun was God,
the way it shines so radiantly
in the sky,
the way when it’s blazing
it could seem omnipotent
and the Creator of all things.
And I believe the Creator
of all things honored that.
Bob Boyd