#brevity poems on Hello Poetry

neth jones Nov 2022

solicit the galling thoughts
those obscenities   rigged gorily within
          victim concepts   taught distortion   forbidden carcass

in the persisting sully of night
padded dreams pace    ******* at a fed distance
it's all in sight and held racing back and forth out of reach
                     some sloven mystery
under a cower of skin

one day free of your agent cover
and you'll stand   vacantly able     under eye of the morgue creator
mating together life habits    gracious goodness gratefully seeded
you could maintain a patient pattern
with practice you could go mainstream

                                 -with practice

#prayer #brevity #mentalhealth #mind #thoughts #short #dreams #practice #improving

neth jones Nov 2022

b e e t l e . . .

beetle like foetal
shrink wrapped pebble
peddling twig ticking limbs
shrouded  wings
so sung    into its sorcery
jewel cracked    meal like  delicately
delicacy         if commuted to mouth
however    it is committed to the air
strike veins and charge the tissue
sprout the wings    freed
cupped caring breast beats on the air
heavy beetle           upright suspends
carried with pendulum dignified flair
a businessman of the sky till arrival
with a mandible crown in place
of a stiff bowler hat
and limbs flung
ready to greet
or do battle

#brevity #short #beetle #flight #nature #observation

neth jones Nov 2022

project deadline

i must hustle    cause i’m made of spoil
moist rice skin
            thinly incases  soft fluttering organs
mucus coated   elastic  chicken bones
                                          run throughout my parcel
they prop me      doe-ing before the lumy screen
     (the screen that volunteers us all)

emaciating into my work
      through this communal portal    i'll detonate my legend
    my spirit shall decant and dispel gladly
in the world remaining
    my cadaver will become acclimated
                        and re-meat the soil in an easy spill

         no longer alienated     my work will be    utter

24/10/22

original version

I must hustle    cause I’m made of spoil
moist rice skin
            incasing soft fluttering organs
bones prop me      doe-ing into lumy screen
in that world I’ll emaciate my legend
before    in this one     I re-meat the soil

MARK

#work #computers #compost #short #brevity #project #deadline

neth jones Nov 2022

01 00

sky like combed smoke
unseasonably warm for mid November
carrying my coat
i wonder if winter depression
can be missed this year

10/11/22

#short #brevity #weather #seasons #winter #november #clouds #sky #depression

neth jones Oct 2022

01 0000

piloted
plough tills the plot
overturns one season
for one of greater potential profit

08/07/22

#plough #short #brevity #seasons #farming #soil #growth

neth jones Oct 2022

01 110

move to the countryside
(cities crowd judgement)
   and carve a tree upon my heart

span life in walks
   and scrapes with harsh weather

soon to leather myself
   into a practical creature

earn lighter being
  seldom to pass stressful thought

#short #brevity #countryside #nature #healing #spiritual

neth jones Sep 2022

brevity homework versions of ; 'static' & 'cower'

s t a t i c

populous city
summer heat gloating
these isolated nights poison
anxious residents
all strangers to their neighbours

squared away
bedded
they coil about their trusted genitalia
despising

c o w e r

wolf ,
          could you even go stalking in the woods ?
                 you'd get blisters
                            breaking in pricy footwear
          that smart suit ?
                             ridiculous ;     covering your fur
           you've become cowed by your domesticated soul

other brevity version - static

summer   city   night
cast    in orange static
dried spoil crunches underfoot
heavily housed buildings
beings
      anxious
of their unknown neighbours

bedded
they coil
  around their genitalia
        soundly
                and despise

#brevity #homework #short #versions #human #behaviour

neth jones Sep 2022

01 0010

car
headlights feed the darkness
slow to a thief's caution
passing the sleeping houses

   my child pushes back bedtime
  watching
from the streetside window

30/08/22

MARK

#short #brevity #observation #children #cars #night

neth jones Aug 2022

[ eleven & four ]

the immersion in media
i feel weaponized
part of an inhuman condition
a heated communal militia head space
gilded with fear but splintered of opinions
sperming             in  a  holding  pattern
like fish in a overpopulated aquarium
we're stunning ourselves on the sides
batting at it to for an expansion
frenzy of communication
but other life continues
seemingly untainted
indifferent
certainly
see !
the
birds
aviate
and i feel
there is reassurance
the worlds life will outlast us
what's the worst that we could do ?
we'll  not  be    taking  it  to  our  grave ;
a pharaoh      tombed with ornamental company

#short #brevity #media #collective #fear #life

neth jones Aug 2022

Parasol

pleasant-to-be duney minded sediments of mood-blooming yet to calcify light wind and arbor harbour from record heats meat fed steaming sun looming life bawling upon the venue hosted with joshing glee but experimenting with confused bratty states mottled and strobed in the brushed shade for now a stood peace

23/07/22 - early version written in the traintracks park

versions

Parasol

Pleasant to be duney minded.
Sediments of mood blooming,
Yet to calcify.

Light wind and arbor
Harbour from record heats :

Meat fed steaming sun,
Looming life,
Bawling upon the venue,
Hosted with joshing glee
But experimenting with
Confused bratty states.

Mottled and strobed
In the brushed shade.
For now,
A stood peace.

(milk float) original version

pleasant to be duney minded
sediments of mood    yet to calcify

mottled and strobed
                in the brushed shade

by light wind and arbor
harbour from the record heats :
the meat fed steaming sun
ball of life    bawling life
upon a venue hosted
   with joshing glee and fusion
but experimenting with
   a confused bratty state

but
for now    a stood peace

#heat #short #shade #heatwave #park #brevity