Poetry Drafts / 2 July 2017

Cinnamon Bun

It smells like home,
a cinnamon bun,
never overdone,
just right – spunge

With sugar on top,
special sweet crop,
cold milk tumbler,
the matching – stunning

It smells like home,
the wanting strong,
the cooking erring,
still longing for – home

About The Author

Hayden Veil

In an earlier incarnation, Hayden Veil enjoyed a successful career in software engineering, writing late-night poetry in pursuit of sanity. On 2 February 2020, the world of Hayden Veil changed: Ghosts became real and with its soul laid bare there was no turning back from the perpetual path of poetry.