Sometimes I wonder if individuals
in different places, times and cultures
invented the many gods and goddesses
all across the peopled planet
promoted them to the point
others began believing in them
accepted them as real
felt moved to worship them
in other words, like fake news
many people believed
the imaginative, fake stories
of gods and goddesses

of course, the other possibility is
visionaries, knowers of the unknown
seers of the unseen
could have been chosen
by gods and goddesses
as worthy to be revealed to
revealed and manifested
real and genuine

I have to admit I like
the second version better
the genuine instead of
the imagined
but I tend to believe
that it’s plausible
the Absolute
in Its infinite mercy
would honor the beliefs
the ones imagined
and they eventually
would become real
conduits to the Divine.

Bob Boyd

When I heard of trolls in fairy tales and folklore
I thought they were imaginary
I thought they were just fake annoyances
that somebody or somebodies dreamt up
but that was long before I got on the Internet
and learned that trolls are annoyingly real.

Bob Boyd

An engineer lost his wife in 1963
she unexpectedly died
at the age of 40
heartbroken, he couldn’t go on
with life as usual
he sold their house and
his belongings
quit his high paying job
became a vagabond
wandered all over the US
his way of trying to heal himself
mending his heart
that broke into a thousand pieces
trying to put those pieces
back together again
his wandering ended 5 years later when
he jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge
some broken hearts never heal.

Bob Boyd

Some people are so easily brainwashed
and easily radicalized to swallow untruths
some have died for heinous, harmful lies
became evil pawns, tried to kill others
for falsehoods duped into believing
recently some of them arrested in California
a plot to kill thousands of innocent people.

Bob Boyd

A school of cobra endler fish
swimming in fascinating swirls
inside my ten gallon aquarium
up and down back and forth
round and round merrily
like happy children at play.

Bob Boyd

The world needs more people who kid around
fun people with sprinkles and sparkles of joy
who light up this world with a little merriment
lightheartedness in all the doom and gloom
interjecting healing, joyful laughter into it
oh how we need more of those people in this
world sometimes called the veil of tears
where like torrents of rain tears often fall.

Bob Boyd

Sometimes love goes well, sometimes not,
sometimes it’s deadly

a guy gives his heart to a
woman he thinks is his soulmate

a year later she cheats on him
and leaves him

a woman gives her heart to a bad boy
she liked the excitement and the challenges

two years later after much physical abuse
he beats her to death

a guy gives his heart to a sweet woman
a few months later, the sweetness is gone

he strays in the relationship hoping it will improve
but she keeps making his life miserable

a woman gives her heart a man with a lot of money
tells everybody she knows she got a great catch

but to him she’s just a trophy and a conquest
he’s incapable or real, true love

luckiest are those who despite the risks to their hearts
find true love that lasts for the rest of their lives.

Bob Boyd

Been following folklore, watching the stories on YouTube videos
but as bad as some of the monsters are in folklore stories
they pale in comparison to the monsters in the human world.

Bob Boyd

I learned today 200 people’s dead bodies
are on Everest

because you die there and you usually stay there
too dangerous to take your body down the mountain

but bravo to those with the grit to climb Everest
even at the risk of losing their lives

as for me, I’m not that brave or adventurous
I prefer climbing smaller mountains in life

that don’t require mountain gear
that don’t require climbing actual mountains

the mountain I climb is the mountain of trying to stay
sane and alive in this challenging, crazy world.

Bob Boyd

She was the kind of woman men dream of
she had the most beautiful exterior
like an angel that came down from heaven
but beneath that heavenly, angelic exterior
her demons and hell unleashed.

Bob Boyd

Reports about UFOs keep increasing
in the seas and in the skies
I think we are about to be visited
by the occupants of some of these
I hope their friendly extraterrestrials
and not unfriendly hostiles who talk
like this: bIjeghbe’chugh vaj bIHegh!

Bob Boyd

Mythological oddities are many
in mythologies all over the world
a woman with the body of a bird
a bird with a dog’s head
a woman with green hair
and razor sharp green teeth
a bull with a horn, like a unicorn
wronged women who died and
live in water and in birch trees
and drown men to their deaths
sometimes I wonder, who were
the imaginative individuals who
thought all these oddities up.

Bob Boyd

The head of beautiful woman
the body of a large bird
resplendent long hair, piercing eyes
dwells in a hidden, magical paradise
she’s knowledge, wisdom. prophecy
sings hymns, divine and magical
mesmerizes with her enchanting voice
she’s all-seeing and all-knowing
sees into the future, foretells future events
she’s the messenger of the Slavic gods
immortalized in stories and legends
Gamayun the seer, the wise, the beautiful.

Bob Boyd

Beautiful, benevolent Slavic goddess
spinner of golden thread
spinner of destinies
offerings of bread, honey and flowers
petitions of prayers and rituals
might invoke her to change your fate.

Bob Boyd

The hum of a small motor
the bubbling of water
the purification by a filter
the heat of a heater
all helping to keep fish
alive in an aquarium.

Bob Boyd

If you’re in a Slavic country
and you’re a man or a pregnant woman
beware of bodies of water,
for the rusalki lurk there
irresistibly beautiful maidens
singing that lures you into the water
if your a man and you fall prey
to an alluringly beautiful Rusalka,
she drowns you to death
if your a pregnant women and you
stray to close to the water, she kills you
and kidnaps your unborn child
beware, beware, of the rusalki.

Bob Boyd

First everything is breathtakingly wonderful
you can’t stop thinking about her
you can’t get those thoughts of her out of your mind
you never imagined love could be like this
it has exceeded your every expectation
but, alas, at some point later
when the newness begins to wear off
when darkness creeps out of her soul and yours
everything begins to turn sour
and if married, you might find yourselves
in a divorce court hating each other
your fault or hers for the dissolution
of the once sweet relationship
pity how this scenario plays over and over
blessed or lucky are those
whose relationships never seem to sour.

Bob Boyd

The concept of tulpas originated in Tibet
by magicians and monks

supposedly with your mind and your imagination
you could create real beings

separate from you with thoughts and astral
lives of their own

practitioners of the occult did the same, except
they called them thought-forms

I once read of a black magic magician who
called them familiars

and according to what I read on a Buddhist site,
quoted below

tulpas and thought forms sometimes run away.

Bob Boyd

“Once the tulpa is endowed with enough vitality to be capable of playing the part of a real being, it tends to free itself from its maker’s control . . . . Tibetan magicians also relate cases in which the tulpa is sent to fulfill a mission, but does not come back and pursues its peregrinations as a half-conscious, dangerously mischievous puppet.

The same thing, it is said, may happen when the maker of the tulpa dies before having dissolved it.”

Source

More about tulps and thought-forms on Wikipedia.

I’m not kidding
I’m serious
in these modern day times
many people believe in fairies
you can read their accounts
on websites
you can hear their testimonies
on YouTube
are they all lying?
are they all deluded?
or maybe a collective belief
birthed fairies into existence
consider the Tibetan tulpas
consider the Philip Experiment.

Bob Boyd