Poetry Drafts

As The Viper’s Bugloss Wilted

I left you without farewells
The only way I knew
The only way I could remain โ€“ sane

I left you a pink rabbit
For your circadian cravings
To save you โ€“ from yourselves

I left you with the knowing
You would only stay awash
While the voltaic charge โ€“ prevailed

I left you without a future
For your darkened moods
As the viper's bugloss wilted

Iโ€™ll begin another nap today, a hiatus from everything written, from all creative ambitions for which I feel such disconnect at present. I might be back, or not. I leave my testament here, only time will tell if it will be my final say.

Note to self & listeners… You know those 20+ years you wrote from the heart not really considering the reader and how the words would be perceived in the mind of the receiver… Those years matters not; or matters little in the grand plan of … everything.


After a few months of studying the art of poetry I find them pretentious and vain. Them being the reference of learning and marks.


So here I stand at the crossroads of all. How to go on, and how to to find my purpose – here?


Any ideas? Any suggestions for one lost at sea …

Note to tumblr (if youโ€™re listening)

I am really disappointed how you just randomly disconnect me from the blogs I follow. If I donโ€™t see any posts from a particular writer I assume they are busy with their life, doing whatever people do in their lives, I am not assuming you HAVE DISCONNECTED ME FROM THEIR FEED :/

But I will from now on. @staff , I am not amused.

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The Feathers Fluttered

and the swans swam
and the feathers fluttered
in a breeze caused by
the air rearrangement,

the ignition of the fuse
slowly surging forwards,
longing to tickle the
dynamite, eagerly awaiting
a moment to shine, to
explode in the face of
inevitably -- and truth,

and the swans swam
and the feathers fluttered
in the breeze
ever present 

The Feathers Fluttered

and the swans swam
and the feathers fluttered
in a breeze caused by
the air rearrangement,

the ignition of the fuse
slowly surging forwards,
longing to tickle the
dynamite, eagerly awaiting
a moment to shine, to
explode in the face of
inevitably -- and truth,

and the swans swam
and the feathers fluttered
in the breeze
ever present 

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

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The Message (#selfdestruct)

Did you see it?

The message I
sent,

I hoped it would
pass you by
unnoticed,

I sent you a disappearing
message, hoping it would
miss, miss its intended
target,

This message unseen and
message unnoticed, so
inappropriate and yet so innocent,
the content from a bin liner
mixed with the shrouds of the tormented,

Did you see it? Did it --

miss the target 

The Message (#selfdestruct)

Did you see it?

The message I
sent,

I hoped it would
pass you by
unnoticed,

I sent you a disappearing
message, hoping it would
miss, miss its intended
target,

This message unseen and
message unnoticed, so
inappropriate and yet so innocent,
the content from a bin liner
mixed with the shrouds of the tormented,

Did you see it? Did it --

miss the target 

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

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The Ring

I still wear the ring --

 only on a different finger
 these days๏ผŒ

 the message you left
 still resonates -- ad infinitum,

 the space between us,
 the void between stars,

 shrinks with every passing
 jug under the infinite bridge,

 I still wear the ring --

 Unfitting 

Playground Fairytale

and the poet worried about the imagery of the current week
about not finding enough metaphors to satisfy the average reader
about using those second-hand phrases passed down in anger ; in
anguish as you searched your own limited vocabulary

and the poet worried about the coming week
about having to โ€” rhyme
about having meters tangling their freely spoken words
about fitting the academic world into their โ€”

playground
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