Author name: 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.

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hidden deep / deep / deep / deep 

under layers of obfuscation and 

misconfigured relational database 

tables there are clues left for you

to see; see the signs that all is not 

lost; that lost can be found; the 

finding the lost art of being; being

and thus becoming – unhidden


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Once comfortable in the delusion that 

he was capable of anything he set his 

eyes on the big prize – toppling God


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beneath every suite and 

    buttoned down shirt is a 

        beating heart – 

            though you would not

                think so …


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angle grinder on iron bar

the smell and sound of childhood

the days of youth tinkering 

welding / grinding / creating havoc 

so far yet so near 

I realize 

the future is 

an open book

with an infinite 

stack of pencils


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She got to choose whom to love, and 

that was her undoing. Indecision 

leaves the fruit hanging, amidst the 

storms of the heart.


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She had no fear of 

  missing out

the things she saw were 

  bad enough

the fear a constant 

  in her life

She felt no fear from  

  missing out


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I remember it clearly as if it was 

yesterday, the day I was offered my 

first jaysome. I declined as I had seen 

the warnings in the newspapers. 

Jaysome is not natural…

Jaysome is addictive… 

Girl aged 13 found safe after being 

lost in woods for two weeks in search 

of Blue Jaysome…

Scholars debate the jaysome nature 

of fictional characters …

I said no that day, but fate had other 

plans. 

Years later I attended a conference 

on The Merits of Dark Chocolate 

Layered With Strawberry Cream. 

Little did I know that in the same 

venue there was a talk by the 

renowned adventurer R.Jay. The 

topic was 

Have You Had Your Jaysome Today?

I signed up, and my life changed on 

that day. Jaysome became the light 

I now follow. Jaysome became real.


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As I look down on the thin layer of ice

I realise that I struggle to remember if

there is a puddle or a lake beneath me.

The cracks grows with each step

I take and my mind begins to paint a

picture I do not want to believe. I am

crossing an ocean, there is no ice; the

cracks I see are cracks in the fabric of

reality. My hands are bound, the

chain extends to my right. There is a

bright light hovering there, waiting for 

me to carry on. Vaguely the face of an

angel appears, and all becomes clear.

I am finally going home.


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