In Malaysia stands the statue of a Scottish man
on top of a Hindu temple next to Hindu deities

who is this Scot worthy of standing next to gods?
he was William Kellie-Smith who owned the

land the temple was built on and paid to have
the temple built.

he had it built for craftsman from Madras, India
he paid to build a castle for him in Malaysia

the craftsman wanted the temple for divine
protection when in 1918 several of them
died from the Spanish flu.

inside the temple, hangs a photo of Kellie
with a string of fresh flowers around it.

who’d have thought one would find a statue
of a Scotsman worthy of standing with gods
on top of a Hindu temple in Malaysia?

Bob Boyd

I’ve occasionally seen people on YouTube
who believe in fairies

curious to me that in these times some
people still believe in fairies

but I wonder if a collective belief
by thousands or more

could birth fairies into being, not unlike
how Tibetan monks can birth tulpas into being

with the powers of their meditation trained minds
and their vivid imaginations.

Bob Boyd

Rising from the body
looking down at it
up the tunnel of light
into the life review
a panoramic view
of the events of your life
good and not so good
a being, maybe God,
is there with you
it’s not punitive
it’s to help you grow
more spirituality
if you’re lucky
you reach Source
unconditional love
beyond words
beyond imagination
makes this world
seem dreamlike
not as real as there
if feels like your
true home and
you never want to
live that home
you come to
disappointed but
alive and changed
forever, no longer
fearful of death.

Bob Boyd

No matter what time I wake up
the fish in my aquarium are

awake and swimming
I wonder if they ever sleep

or, if miraculously, they sleep
while swimming.

Bob Boyd

My friend Mindy said she’d been abducted by reptilian aliens
who entered her bedroom though the walls

and the reptilian aliens transported her to an alien ship
with a lab inside and started experimenting on her

she said she passed out from an injection of a green fluid
during the shocking experiment

and she woke up a day later in her bed feeling something
was different about her but shrugged it off

I didn’t know what to make of her story … until she slowly
morphed into an 8 foot tall reptilian alien in front of me

terrified, I dashed out of her house, jumped in my car and
sped away

that was the last time I or anybody else saw Mindy, except when
I see her in nightmares as that terrifying, reptilian alien.

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

In West Sussex, England stands St Mary’s Church
in the village of Shipley
built in the 12th century by the Knights Templer
has a graveyard sheep graze in to keep the grass down
it’s filled with bent head stones, chipped from erosion
blackened and grayed from centuries of wear
the writing on the headstones erased, eroded
those lying under them erased as well, forgotten forever.

Bob Boyd

There are those who steadfastly believe
aliens created us
these are people who are quite knowledgeable
about aliens
years of studying them and the alien abductions
of humans
talking to many alleged abductees
and countless people with experiences
and knowledge of alien lore
even talking to ex governmental officials
they allege told them aliens created us
these people also claim earth is a laboratory for
aliens and we are the experiments
I consider these people experts on extraterrestrials
but I just cannot believe what they believe.

Bob Boyd

The woman Carl thought was
the woman of his dreams
told Carl he was too nice for her

so Carl turned into an SOB
treated her badly hoping he’d
be bad enough, good enough
for her

but he didn’t make the cut
she saw through his fakeness
and he couldn’t keep treating her
badly

he’s was just too nice a guy

and eventually she went away
found a bona fide bad guy
who treated terribly
they probably lived unhappily
ever after

moral of the story, it’s not worth
trying to change yourself for anyone
don’t waste you time and love
on someone who doesn’t appreciate
you for who you are
and stay away from women who
say you are too nice for them.

Bob Boyd

I’ve seen many videos on YouTube
about cows attracted to music
violins, guitars, accordings, etc
like following pied pipers when
they hear the music playing

I’ve seen an entire herd of them
rush to where the music was played
and gather round listening like
people at a concert

I was amazed to see cows had
an affinity with notes and bars
I once read “music has charms
to soothe the savage beasts”
it seems it has charms to
soothe cows too.

Bob Boyd