In 1914, he started his long-time and close cooperation with Josef Florian in the town of Stará Říše translating, illustrating and publishing his own poetry.

He died on 28 October 1971 on his farmstead in Petrkov and was buried nearby in Svatý Kříž (part of Havlíčkův Brod) in the family grave.

His poems are meditative and inspired by the Czech landscape, rural life in the farmstead and deep Christian humanism.

What is noteworthy is the delicate way in which religious themes are refracted through images of his immediate surroundings; the poems invest everyday objects and scenes (such as the farm animals, their byres, the rhythms of the working week) with a spiritual luminescence, a bright edge, and this is done so delicately that at no point does it feel imposed.

The French author Sylvie Germain wrote Bohuslav Reynek à Petrkov (1998), a meditation on his life and art.