#brevity poems on Hello Poetry

neth jones Jul 12

1010 100

no damning good
cramming the skies with medals and detail
best of our history we began a weak century

17/06/25 & 21/06/25
1st line borrowed from altered graffiti that said 'NO **** GOOD'
but had been altered to say 'NO DAMNing GOOD'

#brevity #short #graffiti #silly #humans #history

neth jones Jul 11

. . w a x . . . . . . . . .

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what devils can i get away with in words ?
like arranging mercury slinks
to make a true thing    unbloated and blue
an honest note of mood
or  instead  floated finks of corpse
vicious old swears
  with nasty rash of discrimination
hold still   it ain't pretty but
         i can capture this picture
.

[original - approx 06/25 what devils can i get away with in words /like arranging mercury slinks/to make a true thing unbloated and blue/hold still i capture a picture/art you a fixture ? get out the glue]

#words #writing #brevity #short #silly

neth jones Jul 10

1010 1010

back in time  to the stranger-danger eighties
  when you could really taste the concrete
and the end of the world really meant it
  (or that's what it felt like anyway)

#short #brevity #eighties #concrete #childhood #feeling #end

neth jones Jul 8

edit

we filmed things
the audience would never forgive us for
then we edited them out
it was the right thing to do

the darkness remained behind the camera
but could still be felt by the viewer

06/07/25
inspired by the making of Wild At Heart
full version : we filmed things /the audience would never forgive us for/then the producer nudged the directors elbow/and we edited them out/it was the right thing to do/the darkness remained behind the camera/within the crew and actors /and in the scripts/but could still be felt by the viewer

#brevity #movie #notes #short #darkness #editing #films #horror