#micro poems on Hello Poetry

neth jones Mar 27

a reclaiming tide
each spring   the forrest laps
at my shanty door     then  retreats
nature demonstrates  to me
its permission

tanka style

#brevity #micro #short #tanka #spring #nature #home #growth

neth jones Mar 26

01 1100

butterflied flay of cloud
Rorschach blots
cricket white on nursery blue
skilled autopsy of the summer sky
i feel like raw skin having a plaster removed

02/07/22

original version -

a butterflied flay of cloud
white on baby blue ink blot test
pulling apart in two directions equally
a skilled autopsy of the summer sky

#short #brevity #micro #rorschach #sky #clouds #summer #morbid #raw #blue

neth jones Mar 15

01111 1000

step to the threshold
love is pulled away with the door
into the ice night
replaced with mewling horror
exposure invites my death

..tanka style

Original Version -

threshold
step
     into the night
and love is pulled away with the door
replaced
       with a mewling wall of horror
step out and meet winter
  exposure    invites my death
                                with a snarl

#tanka #brevity #micro #short #winter #cold #dark #horror #love #death

neth jones Mar 13

mantel

dead friends on the mantelpiece
to scripture over our lives
salivate and dictate from the sidelines
        - as i grow a family -
they become hidden behind a build up
                            of favourite greeting cards
                  too pretty to let go of

#short #brevity #micro #death #family #memory #forgetting #loss #influence

neth jones Mar 8

01 1011

racing           bark and froth
tok  -   toy  -   tok
beating    against the clock
the insistent derange    against time
               only    enforces the medium

#short #micro #brevity #time #stubbornness #clock #tok #hurry #racing

neth jones Mar 7

01 1001

fast paced
negative      space-
-invades    our  idle  play-
-of kingdom enraged and boredom-
-engaged   transitional   teenage   tup-dut-
-fertile   breeding   and   recoding-
-embers of prior thieves
an inflamed race
fast paced

rictameter inspired

#micro #brevity #short #rant #rictameter #teenage #pattern

neth jones Mar 3

11111 01

weather breaks the clouds
    a day of mouths eating mouths
cold churning nature
lording weight over my mood ;
the role of a child   subdued

tanka style

#tanka #short #brevity #micro #weather #nature #mood #child #storm #clouds

neth jones Mar 3

01111 11111

scupper the dawn
with curtains redrawn
a self made mourning