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