Category: Ghost Poems

Abandoned old churches
nobody attends anymore
except for some ghosts
cold spots, creaking pews,
faint foot steps, whispers
knocks on the walls
scraping sounds on wood
feelings of being watched
but the question I have is
how the hell do we have
ghosts on holy grounds?

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

She haunts Schallenburg Castle
in lower Austria
beautiful black hair, about 5’5” tall
a young woman from the neck down
a snout like a dog’s from the neck up
she’s a ghost known as the hundefraulein
the dog maiden of Schallenberg Castle
who roams the castle but means no harm

Johannes Ertl, custodian of the castle
for 28 years, said he’s seen her many times
once she passed through him like a fog
and he felt his body lit up with positive energy

supposedly, when she was alive
her family kept her locked away in a cellar
because of her deformed, dog-like face

she might be what is called a residual ghost
an imprint of an event that plays over and over
like watching an actor on a screen
the ghost not real, the spirit moved on.

Bob Boyd

She never thought she’d be a crime statistic
or have the crime against plastered
all over the news and on YouTube videos.

She was savagely murdered in June of 1993
on an unhallowed halloween night
by an evil stranger for the fun of it

in her home on Beacon Street awakened from sleep.
Fifty years later people who have lived the house she owned
occasionally see her ghost roaming through it

as if she never crossed over in the tunnel of white light
into the glowing meadows and enchanted lands
of the heavenly paradise in the afterlife.

Bob Boyd

She was a beautiful young princess
daughter of a powerful nobleman
she lived with in Bamburgh Castle
in Northumberland, England

she fell in love with a handsome, brave knight
her father didn’t approve of
sent the knight overseas for seven years
thinking his daughter would forget him

but his daughter pined daily for her love
to try to cheer his daughter up
he bought her a beautiful, pink dress

sometime later, the father lied to her
said his spies discovered the knight had
fallen in love with and married another woman

the daughter so distraught by the news
put on her beautiful, pink dress and
jumped off the castle battlement to her death

the knight returned seven years later
unmarried and still in love with the princess

now the ghostly princess in the pink dress
appears every seven years in the castle
and wanders down to the shore next to it
waiting for her forbidden love to return.

Bob Boyd

She was just a lost
little girl ghost
maybe 7 or 8 years old
never making a scary sound
never bothering anyone
just going about her business
searching for something
nobody knows what
perhaps she was just an imprint
a residual image
looping over and over
searching for a parent
brutally taken out of this world
nonetheless whether a real ghost
or just a residual looping image
it was a pitiful sight
seeing this lost, little girl ghost
night after night.

Bob Boyd

A nun in the 18th century
now a headless ghost

beheaded by a mad trapper
or two rouge sailors looking

for gold they thought she
know the location of

if the tales of Saint Marie Inconnue
are true

why would a religious be wandering
in this world instead of in heaven?

unless she was a residual
an imprint of herself headless

a ghostly loop that plays
over and over

despite her not being there
just the appearance what was her

created from the trauma of her being
separated from her head.

Bob Boyd

Cobra Endlers swim vigorously in my 10 gallon aquarium
I’ve never had fish in my aquariums that swam so fast
like tiny rockets speeding up and down
from side to side and round and round
their green and yellow colors flashing brilliantly
This makes me wonder why these little fish are
so much more energized than other fish I’ve had
perhaps they need that speed to escape from
larger predators in the wild.

Bob Boyd

I listed to an Art Bell show about two
hobbyist ghost researchers
who explored haunted locations
and recorded EVPs
electronic voice phenomenon
the alleged sounds of ghosts
captured with spirit boxes
I could hear what were supposed
to be words from ghosts
and they did sound as if they were
for example, one said, “wake up”
another in a haunted prison clearly
said “help, I’m in here”
one that sounded like a child
said “I can’t see” and was
heartrending to listen to

it all was more than a bit spooky but
it got spookier when both of them
nonchalantly said they’d been
followed home by ghosts before
as if it were no big deal and
not a terrifying experience
one of them said she told
it it wasn’t wanted in her home
and it just went away
I don’t know about you, but
having a ghost follow me home
would frighten me beyond words.

Bob Boyd

Individuals and groups
seeking to capture
the voices of the dead
using spirit boxes

a word here
a phrase there
as if out of the air

but not as much
talking as when they
were alive

many doubt the validity
of the vague sounds
of the dead allegedly
speaking out of the
spirit world

the EVPs captured
in spirit boxes

alleged to be the
words of the dead.

Bob Boyd

I’ve seen stories, supposedly real,
where someone sees the ghost of a living person

it sounds so contrary that a living person could appear
as a ghost

and if it’s true, what would cause part of that living person
to separate from his body as a ghost?

it also seems the person that appeared as a ghost was
unaware of being a ghost momentarily

perhaps there’s such a thing as an astral body that some
claim leaves our bodies as we sleep

maybe there’s something as an astral slip where the
astral body leaks out of a human on a rare occasion

or maybe a person who says she saw the ghost of a living person was only seeing an illusion created by her mind

the worst would be if a living person appeared as a ghost
momentarily because he was soon going to be one.

Bob Boyd

I’ve heard about benevolent spirits
– usually deceased loved ones –

that have intervened with warnings
or with consolations

in one’s mind
or via apparitions

for example,

“Don’t go there tonight!”

and there’s a mass shooting
killing many people that night

or,

“Ask the doctor to run the tests again.”

and what was going to be an operation
is cancelled because the original tests
were inaccurate

and,

“You need to leave that man now!
He’s going to harm you!”

she doesn’t heed the warning and
he almost strangles her to death

I’ve never experienced anything like that
though I’ve seen dead people in dreams

and I believe sometimes ghosts or spirits
act like guardians.

Bob Boyd

In the back yard of a house,
a man hung himself to death
from a tree

sometime later, a young
married couple moved
into the house

not long after that,
the wife went missing
was never found

until ten years later
when some construction
was being done

in the back yard and
a body was found
missing its arms

the wife’s body
killed by the jealous
husband

after that, another
couple moved into
the house

and felt a ghost
touching their limbs
when in bed

and heard the ghost
whisper the words
am I dead?

I believe it’s a real
account, but real
or not real

it gives me
the chills.

A ghost that appears
over and over

same actions each
time

as if trapped in a
terrible fate loop

that it cannot escape
from

is really only an
imprint of what

was a person
that loops continuously

while the person
that died

has gone on
to somewhere else

whether the grave
or the heavens.

Bob Boyd

The chaotic movement of objects
all about a room
no sightings of ghosts
no eerie sounds
no chilling of the air
not an angry spirit
psychics cannot discern it
a living agent
a person’s unconscious
the unnatural cause of it
connected to girls
and young women
the Poltergeist phenomena.

Bob Boyd