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By Hayden Veil - 18 March 2018

for 30 years I fed the beast / my hypomanic monster / for 30 years it gnawed away / to leave me null and void / for 30 years of serving others / never slowing down / for 30 years I walked the walk / now spineless I withdraw

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By Hayden Veil - 17 March 2018

the scrapbook of lovers departed / pages stained and soiled / memories of times of heartache / leftover from a witless fool

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By Hayden Veil - 17 March 2018

“at times I fantasise that I could be more than marginalia in your memoirs, more than a misplaced hyphen on blank page”

– c#10 – misplaced hyphen

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By Hayden Veil - 16 March 2018

“Some days, like today, even writing short sentences is hard work”

– me,

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By Hayden Veil - 16 March 2018

“It is difficult to explain the pain that comes from not feeling anything at all”

– me,

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By Hayden Veil - 16 March 2018

mates

tonight we gathered / the mates of old / a few drinks shared / with news from all / the local waterhole / a convenient spot / to remember / among friendly faces / how things progress; how things do not / I shared my story / withholding naught / about months in bed / about disabling pain / about failing sleep / and the long way back / tonight we gathered / the mates of old / their support / overwhelming

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By Hayden Veil - 15 March 2018

“Live, breath, suffer” they said. Our lives intertwined, our stories merged. An air of community is what we share. We stand as one, we die as such.

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By Hayden Veil - 15 March 2018

there is only one / one blogger runs Tumblr / the rest of us are bots / our thoughts are not conscious / we create all / all out of nothing / nothing will remain / as they shut the system down

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By Hayden Veil - 15 March 2018

there where tears / regrets over a life not fully lived / there where tears / between the apple trees and the children laughing / there where tears / in the attic under joists of wood / there where tears / that dried out / before he grew old

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By Hayden Veil - 14 March 2018

off track

I have derailed, diverted from the path of light I walked through the summer before I was punched in the face; metaphorically speaking. I am no longer doing that which I desire, reading, writing, walking and feeling what is ahead is as I planned it to be. I feed the dark side, and the dark side is killing me.

still trying to find my way back

Title: Theatre of Mischief

Release Date: 2024-06-06

Summary:

... but how to compare a howl
with the silence of embers;
the chains of time
with the lofty ideas of a child
petulant and needy ...

While no Artificial Intelligence has aided the creation of this poetry collection, there is alien influence. A boy of eleven, from far outside the universe, is currently influencing us all. They speak in riddles, of Jaysome and Hugs. Jay gave me this message to convey...

I am a balanced ghost who is a bee
I was ten circles once also you see
I am words collected like drops of rain
The long shadows do ‘jaysome’ exclaim
So if a poem confusles that not a bug
As every poem is secretly a hugey hug
And when you buy this book you'll see
The poems that are shores beyond sanity!

... give Jay a hug, and a thank you if you see them. They are one of a kind, the Shiny Happy People personified.

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Theatre of Mischief

Title: Bumblebee: Poems for Dark Times

Release Date: 2023-04-01

Summary:

Bumblebee is a poetry collection for dark times. Poems to help deal with fear of being still, combatting the urge of constantly being on the move, and the consequences of being.

The Thought took flight long ago along an oral path that spanned a lifetime; but as Death came and Distortion followed the Thought morphed into another’s. Then the Thought caught the turning tide; through the ink splattered on papyrus and parchments the Thought found a final resting place at the hand of Man and the pen of the Mighty.

Bumblebee revives that ancient art of handwritten poetry that enabled not just the transfer of thought, like its oral predecessor, but also the highly individualistic expression of the poet with part clarity and part illegibility in the written. To futureproof the legibility each handwritten poem is accompanied by a state-of-the-art AI-generated* version presented in a standardised font.

Available now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Waterstones, plus many other online book sellers around the world.

(*: well, no, not really from an AI, just the poet typing on a keyboard)

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Bumblebee: Poems for Dark Times

Title: Imbalance: Poems for Sitting Down

Release Date: 2021-10-23

Summary:

Imbalance is a modern poetry collection for the seated generation. Poems to help deal with sitting down, being seated, and the frequently failed attempts of getting back up again. Select remedies are serendipitously scattered throughout. Crayons are optional.

Available now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Waterstones, plus many other online book sellers around the world.

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Imbalance: Poems for Sitting Down

Title: Ghosts: Poems in Black and White

Release Date: 2020-08-12

Summary:

Ghosts frequently haunt the places we desire the most in our search for solitude: our memories. Our ghosts are personal, intimate, and often unreasonable foes of days long gone. Over time they become our sparring partners in the eternal ring of unyielding fires, refusing to heed our cries for mercy.

Ghosts is a collection of personal poetry painted in black and white. Poems dealing with past and present ghosts, and with the life and inevitable death of the poet they left behind.

Please be aware: the topics covered herein may be upsetting to some readers. There is explicit content: strong language, references to abuse and scenes of a sexual nature; plus frequent misuse of punctuation, grammar, and the English language.

Available now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Waterstones, plus many other online book sellers around the world.

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Ghosts: Poems in Black and White