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Mothers posing with dead babies
a photographic trend in late 1800s
but, alas, what a sad sight to see
families posing with dead grandparents,
fathers, mothers, children
sometimes dead pets too
a photographed last farewell
heartbreaking to imagine
how sorrowful
how painful
that last
captured goodbye
must have felt.
Bob Boyd
Base Camp Chris
a good and kindly guy
tells the best and strangest
hiking and camping stories
I listen to him often
because his unique stories on YouTube
sent to him by many
are so amazingly good
for example, see his frightening and
mysterious story about the Tree Bear.
Bob Boyd
In the town of Nethertown
the ghouls hold sway
highest crime rate
for a small town
in all of the USA
sightings of cryptids
many
ghosts aplenty
horrors, incomprehensible
abound
heads of humans and
animals often found
the town once a haven
for the dark arts
witches and warlocks
hung to death
now the town suffers
the aftereffects
of the smoldering dark magic
emanating from the
bodies and bones
of the dead witches and warlocks
buried under Nethertown.
Bob Boyd
At first, in love and in marriage
they’re loving
they’re caring
as long as
everything goes their way
but when love or marriage
goes astray
the wickedness in them
crawls out of the darkness
hidden in the shadows
of their souls
and they stalk
they harass
eventually they kill
the unfortunate women
who got tangled up
with what they thought
were suitably nice men
but, woe, they were so deceived
by deceptions and devilry
and now most of those women
who were only looking for love
are dead
murdered by monsters among men.
Bob Boyd
As you grow older
real older
you look around and many friends of
yesteryear and this year are dead
many generational icons are gone as well
if you live long enough, more of them are
on the other side, the deceased side, of life
few, like you, are left on the living side of life
for some, this generational shift from the living
to the dead
is extremely depressing
the world, the people they knew
gone forever
to where
no one really knows
despite the many who claim they
know who haven’t been dead
maybe those who’ve had
near death experiences, NDEers, know
seemingly having been dead temporarily
but many scientists disagree
and their scientific reasons have merit
and temporarily being dead isn’t
really dead, not having gone all the way
as for me, I think the NDEers have gotten a real peek
at where the dead friends and generational icons
have all gone.
Bob Boyd
In this world
too many young women
die young
I’m not meaning
from diseases
or accidents
I mean the ones
that die from murders
often committed by
husbands or boyfriends
like the 68-year-old ex husband
who stabbed his 71-year-old wife
to death with scissors at their
son’s gravesite
some are random
like a young woman
recently stabbed to death
on a subway by someone
she never knew
or the many murdered
by serial killers
this is the dark and ugly side of life
the life some say is beautiful
until something dark and ugly
happens to them.
Bob Boyd
I like the look of old stone churches
in England
standing strong for hundreds of years
splendid works of architecture
though ancient, to me they
look as good as new
better than the modern churches
made of wood
inside the stately wooden pews
and minster’s pulpit grace the interior
sadly many of these stone churches
have been abandoned
some of them are alleged to
have become haunted
some have been turned into
nightclubs
the worship, the prayers, the God
in them dead.
Bob Boyd