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
The Demon Cat of Washington D.C.
big and menacing haunts the halls
of prominent federal buildings
from the Capital Building
to the White House
occasionally frightening people
according to the Demon Cat lore
it’s also claimed to sometimes
be a sign of forthcoming disasters
or impending tragedies
supposedly in 1963 a nightwatchman
saw the Demon Cat right before
president Kennedy was assassinated
whether the Demon Cat is real
of just another urban legend
I am unsure, but it’s listed as
one of the most famous ghosts
“in the White House Closets,”
so perhaps some of the tales
of the Demon Cat ring true.
Bob Boyd
Think twice, lone traveler, before staying
at the ghost invested Clown Motel
in Tonopah, Nevada
situated next to a haunted cemetery
walls adorned with pictures of clowns
assortments of clown dolls on shelves
clown paraphernalia everywhere
in the rooms, clown wallpaper, clown sheets
and blankets, clown figurines
picture of dolls on the walls
the eyes of the clown dolls
seem to follow you
clown ghosts appearing
and disappearing
some guests claim to have seen
a seven-foot-tall clown poltergeist
disembodied laughter
the sounds of footsteps
with nobody there
a host of terrors
some guests have seen
maybe you’ll go there and
see nothing, lone traveler
but BEWARE.
Bob Boyd
Wearing a red dress, she wandered through
a room, headless and holding her head in her hands
then she walked through a wall
what in God’s creation made a ghost be like that?
was she beheaded in life by a crazy person
or by an insane, jealous or ex lover?
the headless woman ghost in red was described
to a waitress by her son and grandson when
they visited her in the employee section
of the Mizpah Hotel in Tonopah, Nevada
and saw that headless ghost there firsthand
Bob Boyd
Dogman sightings
keep increasing
like a Dogman fever
a cryptid epidemic
but I have a hard time
believing in a beast
with a face like a dog
and a body like
a big muscled man
of course maybe the
saying nothing is
impossible applies
and dogmen sightings
are really increasing
especially in Michigan
and all over the U S of A
and there’s even a
website about them
Dogman Encounters.
Bob Boyd
Sea Monkeys
advertised on the
backs of comic books
long ago, they looked like
unique, exotic pets
little humanoid animals
that could even do tricks
maybe even be tamed
what a surprise,
a disappointment
to some, perhaps many,
when sea monkeys
looked nothing
like the pictures
in the comic books
and were only
brine shrimp.
Bob Boyd
Sometimes on my portable radio
I hear a children’s Christian program
Adventures in Odyssey
occasionally I’ve listened to it
despite being an old adult
it takes me back to days of innocence
when life was less complicated
when responsibilities were few
when I made less mistakes
and lived a far purer life
than in my misspent younger years
sixteen to twenty seven
and I find myself feeling a little
closer to maybe an idyllic heaven
despite listening to a radio program
designed for Christian children.
Bob Boyd
Saw a gent on YouTube
exploring a little, old church
in Wales
said to be haunted
he walked passed a wooden pew
heard a creaking sound
no big deal
seemed like nothing to see
but it kept creaking
each time he walked by it
becoming a bigger deal
then he felt something
unseen touch his hair
gave him quite a scare
then the deal got bigger
the stale air inside the church
became freezing cold
and the gent felt fear
got the hell out of the church
and the door shook after
he closed it
the gent believes someone
was buried under the church
and is trapped there
but for unexplained reasons
can make things get
spooky inside the church
more unexplainable to me
is why a spirit would
linger in an old church
I don’t believe it’s
trapped there but
that’s an intriguing theory
I can’t come up with
a better one
Lord knows
I wish I could
Lord knows if
a spirit is trapped there
I wish someone
would send it to the Light.
Bob Boyd
I spy two vultures gliding overhead in the sky
I wonder what is dead, what has died
I glance at the vultures again
gliding effortlessly, beautifully
like avian royalty gracing the blue sky
like princes among birds, regal and sublime
yes, they have a bad reputation as scavengers
flesh eaters of the dead
but today, here and now, in the sky above
gliding so gracefully
they look absolutely beautiful to me.
Bob Boyd