A guy who doesn’t, I should write didn’t,
believe in the disembodied
explored an old abandoned house
the air chills, he senses evil
hears manical laughter
the door through which
he entered the house
slams shut with a thud
he cannot suppress his fears
tries to get the hell out of the house
he cannot open the shut door
struggles to open it
with all his strength
afraid he’s going to die
in that house and become
part of that evil
mercifully, he eventually
gets the door open
scrambles out of the house
leaps into the safety of his car
which does not start
zombie like ghosts begin
to approach his car
as his car grinds and whines
and still will not start
as if the spirits have control
over the engine of his car
until it finally starts
and he races far away
from the house never to return
and a believer in the disembodied.

Bob Boyd

Saw a YouTube true crime show
about a minster who killed his wive

married a new wife, seemed happy
but eventually killed her too

I know the allegedly devout have killed before
yet it always surprises when the religious kill

you would think they’d fear divine retribution
dying into something like a never ending hell

and I cannot understand how they could kill
why they do not have the inhibitor most have

against murdering another human being
perhaps they are psychopathic in the worst way

no qualms, no feelings, no restraints
taking a life easy, even if religious or a minister.

Bob Boyd

I’m not a church goer,
but I hate to see abandoned churches
I see many of them in the United Kingdom
in various YouTube videos
old houses of God turned to empty relics
no longer attended, God forgotten
some supposedly have ghosts in them
most are just dusty and empty
some have graveyards around them
or behind them
as if the church members
and the ministers
all died and are buried in those graves
with no children, no new members
to keep those dead churches alive.

Bob Boyd

I’d fish days
I’d fish nights
but I didn’t fish for food
I fished for sport
wasted the fish, let them die
but when I got older
I think early twenties
I couldn’t fish anymore
I couldn’t catch fish for fun
waste them, let them die
I feel that was evolutionary
I feel that was spiritual growth.

Bob Boyd

Often wonder why
we have to have
so many people
murdered in this world
maybe atheists are right
there is no God
it’s all just random
but if they’re wrong
if there is a God
why would the
Supreme Being
allow this to happen
especially in cases
where little children
are murdered?

Bob Boyd

Many young women posting photos
of themselves on Instagram
don’t know why they do this
can’t quite figure it out
and sure they all look nice
but to me their photos are like a mirage
their youthful looks short lived
like fading flowers in a meadow.

Bob Boyd

A trail of dead prostitutes in his wake
strangled to death in Austria
bodies left in forests
got out of prison early at age 40
had been imprisoned
for murdering a woman
became a famous journalist by day
a serial killer by night
killed prostitutes partly because
his mother had been a prostitute who
abandoned him as a child
probably also because
he was born a psychopath
Jack Unterweger.

Bob Boyd

I’ve had dreams where I thought I was still working.
How wonderful it was to wake up retired.

Bob boyd

Woman-less now for years, sometimes I remember
women I was romantically involved with in my life

and damn! for better or for worse, they
sure made my life more interesting

through, laughter, joys, heartaches and tears
they brought fascinating times to my years

and despite the disappointments, the heartaches,
the risks and uncertainties

sometimes, though rarely, I think I’d like to experience
some of those times again

as I remember how wonderful it was to feel a woman’s
tender touch, to see her eyes looking lovingly at me.

Bob Boyd

In 1999, forestry workers claimed to have seen
a UFO hovering over a herd of elk

supposedly one elk got separated from the herd
with the UFO silently, purposely, following it

moments later, the elk got sucked up into the UFO
without any signs of sliding doors or apertures

skeptics believe the forestry workers made the story up
maybe to spoof people who would believe them

I am one of those people who believe them
based on what I read about the sighting

based on all I’ve learned about aliens and many
UFO sightings all over the world.

Bob Boyd

My YouTube page is full of videos of dead women
young women murdered by evil, soulless men
my heart breaks for all these young women
who were often happy in their photos enjoying life
before they were brutally robbed of their precious lives
because all these women being murdered
outrages and saddens me so much
I’ll probably write a hundred more poems about it
I’ll never stop wondering why we have to have
rampant, unrestrained evil in this passing existence
and why young women in nearly incalculable numbers
have to have their lives ended by bloodthirsty monsters
instead of lives free from the horrors inflicted upon them
and I also often wonder hundreds of times or more
where’s the God of love in all of this?

Bob Boyd

His girlfriend was obsessed with ghosts
always watching ghost hunter shows
always reading about ghosts
he felt her obsession was a bit much
in the category of the macabre
especially when as he predicted
ghosts began appearing in their home
her obsession had drawn them in
she was quite elated; he was not
she stayed in the house, happy
he moved out, frightened
unable to be with her and her ghosts
though young, she died months later
he believed killed by the ghosts.

Bob Boyd

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