Short Backlit Poems

cool backlit clouds
moving rapidly in gray
share winters secrets...

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backlit dawn lovers
gray shades the cut cameo...
bookmarks of passion...

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BEGUILED
a sunset,backlit
sculptures the aboretum-
I ,on 'morrow gaze...

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Backlit branches shake hands with the night
Colossal thunderheads flash white...

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Rippling live gulf waves
Backlit by rising sun
Wheat swells rise and fall



 By Robb A. Kopp...

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Moon
was there
(slender girl,
backlit by stars?)

when Sun, languishing
atop the sea,

seduced the 
zaftig
Earth...

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Fingers tap so fast,
Bravery on backlit keys,
Faces stay unseen.
Sharp words fly without a thought,
Real world shrinks, courage fades.

©bfa050925
...

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Backlit by the moon she stands,
Proud to anyone watching
While "I’m too fat,” flawed thoughts
Silently stalk her


9/20/11

Received 2nd place in "Doditsu Darkness" contest...

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                                         flames of crystal ice
                                          the aura of purity - 
                                          backlit by sunlight
...

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Backlit

The light behind

Is not behind

Except in the

Conventional way..

If not behind

Separation stumbles

Paradox suggests

Not-knowing

Appearing as 

Backlit..

Rivers are rivers

Again......

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the clouds are shining
backlit and colored by sun
capricious sundown

sunset is blooming
one final push before dark
of purple orange and gold

shadows on the ground 
there are flowers in the sky
in the magic hour...

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Sunlight,backlit through glass
Raindrops,glistening on grass
Faces,smiling in a crowd
Words of love ,said aloud.
Thoughts on paper,strayed
Thankfulness,in prayers made
Mirror images,truth portend
Poetry in stanzas,penned...

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Asleep on an indian pillow
did i dream you
Girl with a boa
backlit with dance
will thou
paint your eyelids
stranded on this scential island
will you use my intervention
whisper now to me
by the fire
loftily dreaming your sycamore thoughts...

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inspired by pink blossoms
delicacy welcomed in rainbow cloud of hope
underlying truths in pools of psychedelic pinks

far off amber sky takes loving glances
cotton candy fluff parading as clouds
a waterfall of love

deeply rooted 
iridescently pretty and compelling
backlit cavern of hope and joy...

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Their art is not less enticing 
than a Renoir or Botticelli,
but the light of their charm is vacuous.
They love that backlit glow
if it highlights only upon them,
but that glitter is only a penumbra.
Goslings have more light
as they follow
a glimmer of imprinted blood.
Snails exude more illumination....

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Desirable dawn

Silhouettes, shapes, 
  clouds backlit
   by a distant sun
  rising slowly 
      in the east
   Cantaloupe swatches,
       painting introductions
    of a desirable dawn
  Draping the sky,
    illuminating my heart
       to a brand new day
                with you

 
Good morning Soupers...

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EMOTIONAL BRUSH STROKES

a backlit painting
darkens in the mind’s mirror,
falling from her throne

the woman’s figure
in geometric color,
neon flash of strobe

will all the king’s men
mend the shattered glass
restrict her movement?

petty and pretty
prideful and coquettish blitz
— conflicted artist?

4/22/2018...

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Thoughts of prey
Heavy with mountains of anticipation
Free fall from the top
Into the vacuum
Settle among guilt lined clouds
 
My mind’s eye sees the hawk’s wings backlit
By light from branches streaked with blood
Don’t disappoint authority
Of dominance realized
 
I wrote a book about my life
When opened
A single hair
Grew from the first page...

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Drifting languid, light 
upon the damp breeze,
the seeds of milk weed fairy fly
upon the aching air.
Snow white, weightless, dancers
skirts upturned before the coarser green
of velvet lawn they flee.
Backlit as virgin lovers 
upon the meadow’s spawn.
The castle walls dare not belay
the upward loft with daunting gray 
for on fragile wings in autumn damp
The world is full, a whorl in white....

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Colors now shimmer in golden, backlit mist
where blue hydrangeas and red roses coexist
Purples and oranges adore a fresh morning.

Flighty trouble has, at last, gone away, riled
Since the mellow hour, my sunshine smiled
The green and pink birds are finally soaring!

Naturally, nature must love beauty so much
To shower flowers with silver, gold and such
Does pearly dew, gladden all of nature, too?...

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Eclipse of the disco ball,
a full floor drank that rhythm on ice;
Total Blackout;

Will they get out, CAN they get out? 

88 Keys to dance on,
awash with a psychedelic trance;
Unable to shout;

Will they, can they, ever get out? 

Each pair of feet moving 
faster than the sound of the DJ;
Oh that soft pout;

Now there’s positively no way out;

 Backlit Solar sight,
 a beat you feel but can’t react to;
Total Blackout....

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Abstract mystery lady, on the burgundy museum wall,
Eyes in deep shadows, in her green dress at the ball,
Sitting lost in thought, of what no one will ever know,
As the moonlight mingles with her hair at the window.

Abstract stylish lady, her face a vague blend of colors,
No longer with the crowd, now apart from the others, 
In a room of wild, color swirls and vague bright lights,
Both lady and night inscrutable, backlit by moonlight....

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The three letter words
like adz and avo delight me.
when you are a scrabble head like I am
you seek every spot to stick them in.

the skill is in connecting them.
They have to attach, which is the tricky
part. But learning all the two letter words
like jo, qi, bi, and za give it a bit of vim.

ow becomes row and then rowing 
and vote becomes voter and then voters
you can play games all night now in the dark,
for your I-pad is backlit for playing him....

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I have to write of the Cape’s evening skies
Of apricot seas and swooping gull’s cries,
Light fading from gold to deep blue, bit by bit -
Table Mountains silhouette, hauntingly backlit
By hidden spotlights far above the town line -
The warm smell of fynbos, of kelp and of vine.

Silver moon pathways across the sea, starlit skies
A shimmering chorus of crickets’ cries
The sudden “chuck-chuck” of a guinea fowl’s warning -
The earth wheeling silently on her course toward morning....

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