Poetry Drafts / 29 January 2021

Playground Fairytale

and the poet worried about the imagery of the current week
about not finding enough metaphors to satisfy the average reader
about using those second-hand phrases passed down in anger ; in
anguish as you searched your own limited vocabulary

and the poet worried about the coming week
about having to — rhyme
about having meters tangling their freely spoken words
about fitting the academic world into their —

playground

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.