New Vlog: Shorts

Well, as I said that I was going to record my shorter poems for YouTube Shorts then released a specific short poem about YouTube Shorts, there was no way I would not be recording that one first. So here it is, a short video of me reading my latest poem ‘Shorts.’ What is even better is that I don’t need to take lots of time editing or creating a thumbnail image! Maybe this YouTube Shorts thing has got merit. As usual, you can watch the video below, or head to my YouTube channel where there are even more videos of me reading poems, shorts stories and parts of my novels.

New Poem: Shorts

After my recent reveal that I am now doing YouTube Shorts, I thought I would release a new short poem to celebrate before I get on to the project of recording some of my older short poems. So here is ‘Shorts.’ Yes I know I did the wearing shorts joke in my video about starting YouTube Shorts, but the poem was written before that. Anyhow, you can either read the poem below, or head over to wattpad and my collection ‘Bad Poetry You probably never want to read,’ where you can also read lots of my other poems, both long and short. I hope you enjoy…

Shorts

I was told shorts on YouTube

Was the way to get more followers

So I put on a flowery Hawaiian pair

And filmed the video full body

“That’s not what we meant,”

“You’ve got the wrong idea,”

They said

Think I’ll just go for a plain pair next time

YouTube shorts

I said in my 2022 end of year review that there was something special happening with my YouTube channel, and that it was a pretty obvious thing! Well, here it is, I am now making YouTube shorts. I was told toward the end of 2022 that if you want more views on your YouTube channel you need to do shorts. I am not usually one for such things as I find those quick videos can be a bit annoying, or rather they are full of people dancing, moaning about others and pushing their political views. Then I realised that I had a few poems that were rather short, just a few lines, a limerick or an acrostic poem. I have not recorded these for my YouTube channel as I felt that the video would be too short and not really worth it. However, they do fit YouTube shorts perfectly, so I have decided to use the shorts format and will record some of my shorter poems and published the videos that way. I will also have some newer short poems for you too. However, for now you can watch me present the introduction of YouTube shorts to my YouTube channel with a terrible joke!