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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Catch

Poetry Drafts / / By 
We were playing catch,

       catch the hand-granade

 I lost

         mine,

 I lost

       my mind,

 elaborating the finer

 points

           of

                blowing

                              up

Poetry Drafts / / By

thequeensenglish:

“My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here,

My heart’s in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;

A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe,

My heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I go.”

– Robert Burns, ‘My Heart’s in the Highlands.’

Photo: My Bonnie Heather- The Quiraing, North Skye, Scotland.

One day I will go. One day I will come. One day I might stay. One day…

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