Poetry Drafts
Catch
We were playing catch, catch the hand-granade I lost mine, I lost my mind, elaborating the finer points of blowing upCopyright © 2021 @behind-the-veil-of-sanity / Hayden Veil
Catch
We were playing catch,
catch the hand-granade
I lost
mine,
I lost
my mind,
elaborating the finer
points
of
blowing
up
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“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…
Slaying the dragon
Slaying the dragon, Slaying the ghosts, I dream of hands unfettered, I dream of hands alight Each morning I see my Face Each morning I see my Death A mirror A mirror A mir at best
Bang! Bang!
I don’t much scream these days, or Ever to be fair. I don’t await your fake and humanly climax. I bite you as I lick your wanting, Who’s for Chinese Fish Fingers? Our human endeavours as things goes, bang! Bang! Bang! Banging you, fingering me, as the ultimate cumming of words bequeath me
through the valleys
I learned many years ago, the name of police - in Welsh, and walking ‘cross the mountains, through the valleys; through and though, I found a better way. What at first appeared as mere fiction she taught me was the ways of old, and I having no better clue; I went with it -- Oh the fool
among sparrow stars
such a noble name we gave it / a precious pet among sparrow stars / dead in deeds unimaginable / a fire-breathing door adancing / I kneel before the name of names / the humble among the humblings / the one from outside the universe of ours / a crossing of many paths untreaded / such is the path ahead / such is the truth / such is the answer sought / such and such and thus: is jaysome