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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.

Countdown

By Hayden Veil - 31 December 2016

T minus three hours
D minus two bottles of wine
B minus forty-two brain cells
Twenty-seventeen approaching
a-lone still

New year wish

By Hayden Veil - 31 December 2016

Happy New Year @staff

If you’re not too busy next year, could you add a feature to the Tumblr app to enable me to reply to the sponsor ads? You see there was this beautiful woman revealing herself to me and I would very much like to befriend her before anyone else…

Sincerely

B.A. Stard (Mr.)

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By Hayden Veil - 31 December 2016

not versatile / just drunk / still living

Let The Reblogging begin

By Hayden Veil - 31 December 2016

All of you who wants us to check out your blog and reblog your originals

Comment and Reblog this post
Let’s celebrate Reblogging.
Before celebrating a beginning of something new.

(Min of 5 would be reblogged by us)

Might as well go out on a high 🖖

Effing fff

By Hayden Veil - 30 December 2016

fear fire 

fill feathers

file font

find fathers

free fodder 

fuckanothernewyearsevent

Quandary

By Hayden Veil - 30 December 2016

He was asked to grow some balls, and enquired if penis enlargement would suffice.

The Brotherhood of Pen

By Hayden Veil - 30 December 2016

Sharing ink and needles, in a brotherhood of pen. Collusion amidst fires raging deep, deep within. Our endless wells of agony, betrayal and torment. Their bottomless pits, invisible crosses scattered through the lands. Fragments of shattered souls, longing to reunite. The brotherhood of pen – the power and the might.

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By Hayden Veil - 30 December 2016

akin to perusing a poem of old
revisiting mirrors
reopens unhealed wounds

circle-no-10 // Sorry I don’t do Selfies

try harder

By Hayden Veil - 29 December 2016

Your sharp black ink upon white fluffy clouds
words once booming becoming me no longer
unfathomable constructs of silence lurks
behind the full stop icicles in melting

Tea leaves scattered

By Hayden Veil - 27 December 2016

It can be read in the
stars fading before
our very eyes, the year of
our lord twenty seventeen
will be the end of days

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.

NEW

Theatre of Mischief cover

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)

Book Cover: Bumblebee: Poems for Dark Times

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.

Book Cover: Imbalance: Poems for Sitting Down

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.

Book Cover: Ghosts: Poems in Black and White

Ghosts: Poems in Black and White