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.

XOR

Scavenger XOR lover, your heart
never belonged to me, never could
penetrate the thin wall behind the
armour

I wore it for thirty-five years,
unknowingly calling it me, and my, and
the ultimate I

Your scythe of solemn truth, breaking
as you joined the sisterhood, blessed

I found myself heartless — paper thin

stained and longing

You watch me undress.
Our fingers covered in sick
& the stench lingers as we
embrace;
as our
touch disregard our
fattened shapes;
we
embrace &
let the world fade.

You watch me undress; your mirror
like a bra too small, like
a growl too loud, like an orgasm
faked: scattered
throughout infinity.
Our fingers touch, soiled and
wanting, stained and

longing.

Cracked

Put all your eggs in a single basket,
one basket, cushioned
to handle the fall

Worry not of unforeseen days,
place all your chicken in the
same pen;
Leave the door open for the fox
to venture,
to find his partner
Wanting

Put your lighter in the air,
then dream of
two-stroke fumes igniting,
dream of
youth wanting

of your wanting

A Whiff of Dusk

These are the darkest days
Shivers of yesteryears
Unfathomed curls of red dreams
Shades of eyes peering

These are the darkest days
Laughter from a clown’s face
Spigots plugged up your …
Shades of remorse flapping

These are the darkest days
We jig and I say no thing
We hug and a Jay waves
Shared blessings bouncing

These are the darkest days
Black on grey in humble rain
Foulest smell of droppings
Beneath eyes of dusk — wanting

Shopping — online

Satan went shopping, online , with little knowledge of the state of affairs in the frozen fridge department.

Satan went shopping, online, ticking most of the square boxes from previous perilous purchases, keeping the new snake suggestions an option for a later date.

Satan went shopping, online, expecting a swift delivery but had to consent to dreary days of waiting, days without liquid fires bottled.

Satan went shopping, online, and waited in anguish for the delivery man to arrive, to quench the thirst for every birth unexpected.

Satan went shopping, online, only to find the delivery man delivering too much for the frozen fridge to swallow, too much for the fucking square peg to fit in the round hole, too much for the writer in anguish to cope with.

Satan went shopping, online, while the writer sought peace among the vegetables not fitting, sought a piece of broccoli withering, then

died.

Neujahrsvorsätze

doktor-disko:

Das Jahr neigt sich dem Anfang zu,

der Regen sich der Erde

und ich mich wieder einmal der

Frage, was draus werde.

~

Ein neues Jahr mit neuen Chancen,

dieselbe Sternenbahn

auf der wir dann am Neujahrstag

im Kreise weiterfahr’n.

~

Ein neues Jahr, dieselben Dinge,

die Probleme bringen –

können wir im neuen Jahr

uns’ren Schweinehund bezwingen?

~

Oder greift wie jedes Jahr

die Februarlethargie,

wir schwächeln und wir geben auf

und wir schaffen’s nie?

Doktor Disko                         (2020-12-28)

There’s something magical about not fully grasping every word… not seeing the whole picture… yet enough to say: yes, I get it, I am connected, there’s history here and I with you on your journey,

don’t worry, February is as short as ever 💜

faceless-eyes:

Maybe life was not made for someone like me. After all, not all people have a home, a job, or a family. So why can’t this also apply to my life? Maybe life was not made for me…

Life’s not made, it is… take away a home , a job , a family, what’s left ? The thoughts within… a keyboard and a tumblr waiting for your writing.. a world waiting for your creations … just breathe in — then out, and keep on typing 💜

The resemblance uncanny; her face there in front of me like a mirror of my first love, the Sheila I once bedded, the jaws of the past here unveiled. The Lyra Silver-tongued, grasping, pulling at my heart string, as I search for the coordinates to the temple of stow, to the junction of departure, and the pool so cold

Wings Wavering

Farewell my dove / my rusty scythe in your trembling moonlight / rustic charm against innocent skin / the gentle strokes down the feathers / down the residual tensions until … / you snap / you crack / you waver / farewell my dove / farewell

December Dog

Our lady of
                 daffodils,
the highs and the
      lows,
we speak no longer
                 of
                 matters
born outside of reality;
                       of
                       matters
relating to cats &
                      gnomes;
of the beastly things
                                                we did
back when the grass was
still green / still mowed
                            weekly by a
hired gun
                                                uncapped•

We rest on the sancta terra, firmly grounded
between life and the
                              calling.

Our lady of
                 daffodils,

She roams

                       between
                      the origins of

Storms & a seltered child

                                   Crying

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