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

Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva

foregoing

your nirvana

your final release
from this world of

sickness
old age
and death

till every sentient being
is off the wheel

of revolving rebirths

guiding souls

for thousands
maybe millions

of years

embodying

a higher selfless love

a greatest sacrifice

for others

Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva

Bob Boyd