Short Strobe Poems

Coruscating strobe
Flames fury advances fast
Respect and awe bound...

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dancing within objects, is love’s bliss strobe ~
God’s light shines in our heart, when we disrobe...

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Long Way

Red lights
Green lights
Head lights
Strobe lights
Long way
Long ride
Pull over
Kisses
Just right.

-km...

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The fog haunts,
The strobe taunts,
It’s time to start the show,
Pull back the mummified curtain,
Beware of bugs, birds, and black lights,
This is Halloween....

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Trumpets blaring, lightning flashing
Mt. Sinai smoking, thunder crashing

   Moses may have reached the highest of heights
   Yet it looks like God rigged up the first strobe light...

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a white flashing strobe
incoming airplanes’ lighthouse
light across far ridge
rays of light in the darkness
appreciative pilot

written January 26, 2022...

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Are they electric curtains
Or simply strobe lights?
Shining beams upon
The bottom crimson creases.
Who knows because regardless,
Two beautiful voices
Continue to awe us.
An audience so appreciative....

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one half’s an arc the other a strobe ~ light becomes your coagulant 

signals and synapses firing off sparks ~ try open eyes but you can’t 

all bound together forming a dream ~ welded to the somnambulant...

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animating silence with heart’s pure intent
in collusion with the enigmatic void
feeling each bliss strobe of soul luminescent 
delusion spawned by ignorance is destroyed
revealing our eternal light unalloyed...

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Fortunes

Once there was a crystal globe
Disguised as a twirling strobe
Lucky for me, I could clearly see.
My future was not there, but in me. 

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 19, 2010

Poetic form: Chastushka...

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Darker seams regally gleam
Sea's turquoise waves glow
Tanned bodies in shadows bask
Neon boards surf strew
Mercurial strobe
Sky's coppertone beams hover
Moon's palling pale globe



Wonder of Dusk contest
October 3, 2012
Stephen Parker...

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A journey landing in December
Road to the Moon of wonder
Trip of four to remember
East of Eden fonder
Milestone is in the offing
Instilled dream becomes a happening
Strobe lights showing and playing

Second-scheduled mission, but first crewed......

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You fake a smile to fool your friends
but you will never fool yourself.
Burn under the neon sun,
strobe flashes life before your eyes.

Poisoned with the shallow ideals,
preached to you by hungry chancers.
In your glass of deep dark red
will you find the answer?...

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He, the lighthouse beacon 
keeping harm at bay

I, the wind tossed ship
in a violent storm near the quay

Lightning flashed, his strobe dimmed
On jagged rocks I ran aground

Flotsam floating from the wreckage
the tragic night I drowned...

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Touched the tremor
where a gulp
hold the tears in place
Where fetally naked under lamp lights thumb
i shiver in time
to darkness song
Breathing not by choice
Dead before the birth
sated with the thirst
Slowly stroke the strobe
doesn't she love me
cause i'm broke...

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The mindful eye
Feels each strobe
Sees soul disrobe
As heart does sigh

Impulse rise and fall
Embrace and release
Doing as we please
Whilst standing tall

Wary of indulgence 
In a narrow band
We do understand
Ego scars innocence 

21-February-2022...

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A silhouette beckons me,
its flashing shadows strobe memories 
vividly in the mirror...
    to revisit, to reenter.
To touch once more for what was, 
to reach, again, for what could have been.

In the mirror I see
memories, dreams, and reflections and
the ghosts of who I used to be....

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An equinox is, for everyone
all over the earthly globe,
a time when through the center of Sun
(that essential daylight strobe)

passes the equatorial plane…
This paired biannual state,
of both autumnal and vernal twain,
once again we celebrate!


~ Harley White

< March 20, 2017 >...

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The woman
That pirouettes and pirouettes,
Pirouetting as she sweats
And pirouette amongst the reveries
Of men, ---
Underneath the strobe lights
Their libidos
Are great black swans
Against the bloodied vanilla sky.
In the moment
They bark crimson pyre.
The woman, ---
Pirouetting as she sweats,
Young men....

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I fell like a shooting star
When I saw you from afar
Dancing with your friends
Grappling this love that transcends

You approached me
Wanting me to dance
I felt the urge to flee
But overcame my hesitance

We danced the night away
Lost in the strobe lights
You stole my heart away 
Like a thief in the night....

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STORM OF PRAYERS


Air reeks of dragon’s esteem ‘longside cyclonic wings of courage.

Strobe light-shadow rivals ~ swords thunder, silver flashing, flooding clouds.

Regret of demons ~ cherub tear drops plummet to earth, heart-shaped.

7/16/2017
Broken Wing’s Contest
Form Used: Sijo...

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rhythm 
writhing along ~
arms coiling, finger snaps,
free wheeling waist undulating.
strobe light creates a scene otherworldly,
bathed in the shadow of romance.
our eyes and hips touching,
and lips humming...
rhythm

8/28/2018

Oh, what the hell just toss one in Contest (John Lawless)
10th place...

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Bliss triangulation

Space between eyebrows,
chakra where bliss grows
of it’s own accord,
bowing to The Lord.

Heart’s the love centre,
where bliss beats canter
as soundless thunder, 
beheld in wonder.

Fontanel’s bliss strobe,
sees ego disrobe,
as we so dissolve,
that soul may evolve.

02-August-2022...

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Poem about Sudbury, Ontario, Canada


There's a sky that's high
where the chimney's higher.
Where the smoke blooms grey
and the winds are drier.

There's a chimney round
with it's white strobe lights,
calling out to planes
through the days and nights.

With a rim in white
and a stack of grey
In the North we say...
It's our home to stay!...

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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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