Poetry Drafts

control

Con……………Troll
I imagine
Having both / qualities /
Striking twice the
….Luck
My brethren I declare
….this is not the ebb
The flow, or the ultimate
….low-ride
A mere flat, a
Puncture of the veins
….of life
An unbeaten heart still
Beating
A flat roof leaking
….red wine
I imagine more
….each day
That is my insanity taking --

control

As your words fell flat

As your words fell flat,
I picked them up & I nailed them
Or with glue attached them thus:
To a piece of papyrus; deadwood.

As the stack grew higher,
Piled up towards the heavens,
I chose a few for safekeeping,
To get me by when times got rough.

Now with the bells tolling, the
Time is right to say the things I
Never minded then; back when the
Storm raged in full.

I will bind you; line your legacy for a
Future you; a future me to watch,
A ghost among many ghosts

To haunt me

an eerie silence

There is silence,
An eerie silence,
On the dark side of the moon,
And in the bedroom,
Where you once roamed

The dark bark of the dog gone quiet,
The limp limbs of nocturnal rendezvous,
Neither amiss considering the plights,
The might of fear at night turned
To life

Itself

web of lies

I weave a web of lies / ‘fore God’s susceptible eyes / I squash the bugs that slithers / emerging from 'neath the bush / She wore no high heels / a hazily memory recall / our nocturnal rendezvous / all too short / yet worms surfaced / slithering & ripe for a final reckoning / she no longer strolls the shaded sidewalks / I carry her legacy with me / her memory fading as the decades pass / my regular returns to the undergrowth / my slithering moves / remains

web of lies

I weave a web of lies / ‘fore God’s susceptible eyes / I squash the bugs that slithers / emerging from ‘neath the bush / She wore no high heels / a hazily memory recall / our nocturnal rendezvous / all too short / yet worms surfaced / slithering & ripe for a final reckoning / she no longer strolls the shaded sidewalks / I carry her legacy with me / her memory fading as the decades pass / my regular returns to the undergrowth / my slithering moves / remains

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Bo Sez

Bo* sez to keep adistance
To stay apart
I do me best to carry on & so I
Ty ur hands behind the back
The cling film snug around ur neck
Bubble wrap for extra cover
The durx freshly mounted rubber
Cutting holes for me pleasures
Yo limp mode inspired alooney

Bo* sez to stay away

No babes u ain’t getting it ur

Way

Bo Sez

Bo* sez to keep adistance
To stay apart
I do me best to carry on & so I
Ty ur hands behind the back
The cling film snug around ur neck
Bubble wrap for extra cover
The durx freshly mounted rubber
Cutting holes for me pleasures
Yo limp mode inspired alooney

Bo* sez to stay away

No babes u ain’t getting it ur

Way

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

The Comic Strip

If I were
A comic strip
There would be black clouds
Hovering
Rain falling on a sunlit patio
Threeway communication on
Two-way streets between
Single-minded & one dimensional
Cardboard cutouts

If I were
A comic strip
I would be the reader
The master teller
The doodler colouring
Their bleakness

Away

The Comic Strip

If I were
A comic strip
There would be black clouds
Hovering
Rain falling on a sunlit patio
Threeway communication on
Two-way streets between
Single-minded & one dimensional
Cardboard cutouts

If I were
A comic strip
I would be the reader
The master teller
The doodler colouring
Their bleakness

Away

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

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