#brevity poems on Hello Poetry

neth jones Aug 2022

01 0

sun    dial back the hour
cared over by petrified habit
couple clusped    our gelid tumour
dare drained from our relation
                                   sapless

#brevity #short #relationships #sad #endings

neth jones Aug 2022

limes

and you smile so ungimmickly
and the smile fires extensions from both sides
like speed record cars across flat heat distorted desert
and i know we're up to no good tonite

08/07/22

#short #brevity #smile #mischief

neth jones Aug 2022

b l i n k

please-please   add your waxy scrolls
   truths   to the panic pyre
madden   an inflamed swarm of intelligence
worm warrens    into the collective of our brain
maybe
   having been riddled
      it'll collapse under the corrective strain
      and start blinking a genuine signal
process recognized    compassionate inkling

(46 words)

#short #brevity #homework #competition #media #internet #information #overload #truth

neth jones Jul 2022

ravenous sleep

i awake from dreams about not eating certain things
and eating certain other things ....i wake

i dream sub-marine
submariner flossed at sea
dreaming

i lost the race
astronaut untraceable
spaced
pacing out a heartbeat

obscene dreams
by the plunderful
engorging
plentiful

digging like a thirst
carving out a craving
digging like a dog
ever unquenchable

MARK

#short #brevity #dreams #silly #ravenous #excess

neth jones Jul 2022

01 1000

slumming heat blooms open pores
old cedar smells emit
from the backs of wooden draws
season
  and gelid memory
          are stimulated
****** thrall
   portal
     nostril thrilled
       into a receptive mating
so clear
drilled to receive all the flowers
               spent perfume
all the heavings and leavings
         of odorous humans
arousing the sense of it all
vaporous rewards
      produce a relaxed flushing

HOMEWORK VERSION

slumming heat blooms open pores
old cedar smells emit
from the backs of wooden draws
season
and gelid memory
are stimulated

#short #brevity #summer #heat #memory #senses #relaxation

neth jones Jul 2022

01 1010

a curious pallor
      in the tallow beneath my skin
strained of nutrients
    drained of nerve signals
a cold dough of bruise yellow
   expanding in blottings
   spending
   into a skimmed milk white

weened hollow in my desperate fasting
put myself into a 'gallow gasp'
heartbeat ? Quite undetectable
feigning death to evade a debt
but 'Shh !...'
              (i'm just in a pale hibernation)

60 words

#short #brevity #hibernation #homework #pale

neth jones Jul 2022

01 01

reminded of my hurt youth
             that never did quell

reprimand the cowardly self

should have sought
    correction from the harm
                that stoppered me

but i was too embarrassed
            to be met in therapy

#short #brevity #therapy #memory #embarrassment

neth jones Jul 2022

sleeping with the computer on

questions drop dumb weight from the night
they distribute anguish and fright
battle tight against comfort
moral prattling defeats sleep
international distress weeps
from my seeping device fraught

Cywydd Llosgyrnog
Brevity Homework

original version

a plumage of anxiety

questions drop dumb weight from the night sky
ample plumb
they plate anguish
       offence of any moral comfort in my sleep
like senility   milking
         suction on thumb
           with pained dental needs
         no answers
                     no sleep tonight
                   no piping pan
                            no kingdom come and feed

#short #homework #brevity #media #sleep #anguish #computer

neth jones Jul 2022

polter (3yr old child)

you conduct winds about the room
    whipping decor and geisting destruction
breaking into a tempest tantrum and fume
    you use up the air in aggressive combustion
    foam breath, thunderous in gloom
and then its pulled-over, you've attained exhaustion
    you need a hug, a glass of water, tears drench
      it hurts barrenly and then a healing quench

Ottava Rima
Brevity Homework

#homework #brevity #polter #child #todler #anger #storm

neth jones Jun 2022

(lightening strike)

while building static warmth
  unbiased night has nurtured strain
now! ;
  breaks akimbo in filling veins
  silver branches
  lipping open flare across the sky
stimulated charge raised
  through our earthed souls
  greeting heavens kindle above

Brevity Homework 2

#short #brevity #lightning #homework