Best Bobo Poems

Our Friend Bobo
By Curtis Johnson

More than fifty years ago, there was a drowning in my little home town.
Back then, we chopped cotton by the day,...

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Bobo and Coco were playing in the park
but had to hurry home before it got dark
deciding to take a shortcut through the cemetery 
when they...

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You must think I'm Bobo the fool,
coming to me with that grinning lie
No, we ain't tight,
no, I'm not your tool
Sister please, don't you even try
Let...

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 Very many years ago,
 In the land of rich men called NO,
 Bobo, a poor man, had nowhere to go,
"Give me a little space...

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Darling,

Forty seven years ago, young and in love.
We fell in love on the Bobo-lo Boat.
A mutual acquaintance arranged our date.
I was eighteen and you were...

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Momentous meteor shower of words
Plethora of metered color absurd
Rainbows falling to the ground
With syllable shakes and bobo refrains
Lamentable lemon sunsets of pain

Our God stuns with...

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A Little Helper Clown

I have a little helper that came to visit me one day.
Soon after he got here, we became very attached.
He follows me...

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It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.
Jim Harrison (1937 - 2016) - The...

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METRO BOULOT DODO  -  GOING HOME AFTER WORK



Bobo               going...

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He was born, he was happy, he was perfect.
He was sick.
He was strong, he was a fighter.
He was a brother, he was a goofball, he...

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NEW DAY

Its a new month, a June-day
Filled with tricks, full of games like May
Birds are chirping and it looks gay
 The Sun so bright and...

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OH ! WHAT A VALENTINE !

As the clock tickles away horarily
On the day set aside for Romeo
In the heart of a Juliet
I waited , I...

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Tanga, tawag sa mga taong nagkakamali
Pumili ng iibigin, iyon pang manloloko
Seryosong mangingibig, iniwasan, nilayuan
Kaya ngayon ikaw at pupulutin sa kangkungan

Piniling mga kaibigan ay mga adik...

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Tickets were free and given to me by a clown
Come by and see the house of mirrors he said
I will gladly take you in saying...

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A Rottweiler  Shepard mix
longsuffering had proven to be
With the Doberman pup, a red one,
won on a gambling spree

Rocky the mix and BoBo
 coexisted for...

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