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Imbalance: Poems for Sitting Down

Book Cover: Imbalance: Poems for Sitting Down
Editions:Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-9163643-1-8
Size: 5.00 x 8.00 in
Pages: 294

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.

Published: 23 October 2021
Publisher: Hayden Veil
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Copyright © 2021 @behind-the-veil-of-sanity​ / Hayden Veil

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Massive thanks to @behind-the-veil-of-sanity for this! I can’t say much yet as I haven’t had a chance to read too far, but I can say it’s not just a poetry book. It’s a work of art. It’s a reminder of why a real book is, to me, superior to an ebook – as is sort of mentioned in the preface. And, on a personal note, when I first saw the cover it made me smile as I’ve been dying to get back out into nature (and I’m working on it).

So yes, I just had to post about this because I’m genuinely excited to read it 🖤 and I really think other people will be too. October 23rd I believe – get it bought!!

I’m just very happy to have friends who don’t mind being exposed to my experimental outlet. The word is just one aspect of I want to explore. Writing for the page is different to writing for other media. The page, as a three dimensional object also enables me to express ideas I couldn’t otherwise.

My new poetry collection will go on sale on October 23, 2021. There’s plenty of pages, lots of words, and various symbols to get your head around. Crayons are optional.

I am with child. Initial scan shows all is well. Due date sometime in October…

Some Wars Never End

Like a tired yawn abandoned 
A tirade against abrasive angst
Some wars never end and
Most days I would ask her why

Is this it
Is this the end
What if they never
Fully comprehend

What if every day
Is the first day
The same day
The same pain

Some wars never end as
We reawaken to the human
Condition, every pain drawn
On the canvas of inexperience

Her answers in truth
Baffled me much,
Her eyes and the oceans
I found equally soothing,
Her answers befell me
Truly

Some wars never end
Some truths are equally lies
Some dream awake while others

Die

Some Wars Never End

Like a tired yawn abandoned 
A tirade against abrasive angst
Some wars never end and
Most days I would ask her why

Is this it
Is this the end
What if they never
Fully comprehend

What if every day
Is the first day
The same day
The same pain

Some wars never end as
We reawaken to the human
Condition, every pain drawn
On the canvas of inexperience

Her answers in truth
Baffled me much,
Her eyes and the oceans
I found equally soothing,
Her answers befell me
Truly

Some wars never end
Some truths are equally lies
Some dream awake while others

Die

Copyright © 2021 @behind-the-veil-of-sanity / Hayden Veil

A Surplus of Matter

More often than in years passed
My well of wise words has turned dry,
As I toss the bucket in and slowly
Draw it up I expect nothing but hollow air,
Nothing but the dusty remains of
Something I once cherished,

A surplus of matter,

A stray comma and a full stop later
Behind a pile of abrupt line
Endings, I find a single No,

No – this will not do,

Even a journeyman aught to carry
More in their wicker
Basket,

I'm all too mindful to find another
Well, another source of
Inspirational sorrow,
Too much time wasted in worry
Over duplicity and calls for petty
Plagiarism,

No longer a lurking man
Seldom tumbling in search of
The golden nuggets
To light my day or drown my night,
Lesser so I speak my mind
in matters of love, in matters of
Like
And their inevitable disconnect ...

My alter egos howl
Wanting attention I cannot provide,
The true self sits and
Ponder,
The thoughts wander
Between white ceilings and
The purpose of barren walls,

Turning deaf ears to all
A wax filled finger to every soul
That matters, to all that
Encroach, in truth to all
Still a-breathing

No – this will not do,

Today I will rave
In twilight I will rage
Tonight I will escape and
Paint this weary town

Magnolia

A Surplus of Matter

More often than in years passed
My well of wise words has turned dry,
As I toss the bucket in and slowly
Draw it up I expect nothing but hollow air,
Nothing but the dusty remains of
Something I once cherished,

A surplus of matter,

A stray comma and a full stop later
Behind a pile of abrupt line
Endings, I find a single No,

No – this will not do,

Even a journeyman aught to carry
More in their wicker
Basket,

I'm all too mindful to find another
Well, another source of
Inspirational sorrow,
Too much time wasted in worry
Over duplicity and calls for petty
Plagiarism,

No longer a lurking man
Seldom tumbling in search of
The golden nuggets
To light my day or drown my night,
Lesser so I speak my mind
in matters of love, in matters of
Like
And their inevitable disconnect ...

My alter egos howl
Wanting attention I cannot provide,
The true self sits and
Ponder,
The thoughts wander
Between white ceilings and
The purpose of barren walls,

Turning deaf ears to all
A wax filled finger to every soul
That matters, to all that
Encroach, in truth to all
Still a-breathing

No – this will not do,

Today I will rave
In twilight I will rage
Tonight I will escape and
Paint this weary town

Magnolia

Copyright © 2021 @behind-the-veil-of-sanity / Hayden Veil

Hands of Light

I am a shaman 
My powers thus revealed
The golden and the naked
Frames a mirrored
Self

Hands of light
Vibrant life
Ten fingers channelling
The source of every
Truth – Divine

I am a shaman
I am a healer
I pass no judgement
If your will believes in
Me

Use me
Abuse me
My humble time I
Offer here
Gratis

Hands of light
Vibrations of the night
Ad Astra and beyond
Faith I say is

Optional

Hands of Light

I am a shaman 
My powers thus revealed
The golden and the naked
Frames a mirrored
Self

Hands of light
Vibrant life
Ten fingers channelling
The source of every
Truth – Divine

I am a shaman
I am a healer
I pass no judgement
If your will believes in
Me

Use me
Abuse me
My humble time I
Offer here
Gratis

Hands of light
Vibrations of the night
Ad Astra and beyond
Faith I say is

Optional

Copyright © 2021 @behind-the-veil-of-sanity / Hayden Veil

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