Some people claim they’ve seen headless ghosts
why would a ghost appear like that?
unless a dead person lived in the vicinity where
once people lost their heads under the guillotine
or maybe it’s a metaphoric thing, like a person
who often lost his head, as in got angry, when living
losing it literally when angry in the afterlife
but I’m just kidding around here, giving you these
made up theories and hoping you never see
a spectral noggin heading toward you.
Bob Boyd
I had a girlfriend once who was pretty, petite and sweet
and seemed angelic – publicly
privately she was still pretty and petite, but forget about
the sweet and angelic
she became as annoying as a rabid flea on me, too many
snide, biting remarks
not being a masochist, not taking excessive sh*t from anyone,
I had to leave her
I couldn’t put up with her publicly hidden persona
the insufferable, devilishly real her.
Bob Boyd
I’ve read when an old person dies
he or she becomes young again
in the afterlife
yet I’ve heard stories about
old people ghosts
does that mean when you die old
you remain old in the afterlife
or are these old ghosts in something
like an afterlife waiting room before
they get a youthful redo?
Bob Boyd
I’ve become a bit addicted to listening to Art Bell’s
Ghost to Ghost part of his Coast to Coast programs
available on YouTube
I like the scares, the uniqueness, of the spectral tales
glimpses into another dimension, thrills galore,
loads of ghosts
maybe I’m hooked on these ghost stories because
at my age I could be close to becoming one
if so, my intent is not to hang around and haunt a musty, old house
or scare living people; I’ll have better things to do
perhaps I’ll merge with the cosmos and live forever
in the eternal peace and bliss of cosmic consciousness
but if I had a choice, I’d rather be in an idyllic paradise beyond
the tragedies and tears of this impermanent world – young again
in love forever with a divinely beautiful soulmate.
Bob Boyd
He loved his exotic wife
she had a different look
beautiful for sure
luxuriant black hair
symmetrical figure
coffee-colored skin
but her black eyes
that seemed to shine
were the stand out
she was more exotic
than he had imagined
one night he woke up
in the middle of night
turned, looked at her
and saw she was a
a different species
a lizard-like shape
shifting reptilian alien
he screamed but she
morphed back to human
mesmerized him with
her eyes that glowed
until his memory of
what he had seen was
erased from his mind.
Bob Boyd
When her parents first heard
their five-year-old daughter
talking to an imaginary friend
they thought it was normal
harmless for children
to have imaginary friends
until things got dark
she said her friend was dead
but in their house
concerned, the parents questioned
her about the dead, imaginary friend
she told her parents the friend
was buried in their back yard
the little girl led her parents out
to the alleged burial spot
drew a circle around it
the parents got shovels, began digging
found the bones of the imaginary friend.
Bob Boyd
They make monsters in the movies
they make them in real life too
with falsehoods, repeated lies
and brainwashing
until these human monsters emerge
from the darkness in their souls
and start killing people.
Bob Boyd
She always hiked and camped alone
friends warned her hiking
and camping solo was unsafe
she didn’t listen to them,
said they were too paranoid
watched too many horror movies
hiking along a trail late afternoon one day
far from her campsite
she stopped and sat down
soon had a feeling of dread
that turned into a feeling of
approaching danger
frightened, she scrambled back down the trail
took a wrong turn and got lost
darkness had covered the forest
making it harder for her to find her way
a hulking dark shadow appeared
under the barely moonlit night
walking steadily toward her
each cracking step on the falling leaves
more ominous, more foreboding
when it came face to face with her
she saw it was a giant Bigfoot and passed out
she woke up in the morning
inside her camping tent safe and secure
and wondered if it had all been a dream
until she saw giant footprints outside her tent.
Bob Boyd
Once there was a self aware tree
it possessed a rudimentary consciousness
it stood for 50 peaceful years
in a serene forest
until loggers sawed it down and
cut it into pieces
and the pieces each held
onto pieces of its consciousness
for about a week before the pieces died
and the consciousness regrouped
and evaporated into the ether
where it remained for a while
until it amassed into a pin point
and returned to earth an insect
a step up the spiritual evolutionary chain
to its eventual rebirths into an enlightened human
and finally gets off the revolving wheel
of transmigration.
Bob Boyd
Sitting in Surrender to the Absolute Today
Such bliss
such peace
like never before
maybe I’m getting closer
to opening the door
to the mystical union
the cosmic consciousness
the oneness
the sat chit ananda
the eternal bliss consciousness
such bliss
such peace
like never before
Bob Boyd