Short Strobe Light Poems

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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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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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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Eden of my eye
Beauty in culture of ten million
Garden of my eye
Haven of brethren and sistren

Values never weakened,  in words spoken
Freedom strengthened, heritage golden

Sprinkled love in dynamite
Ceilings of heaven in stalactites
Grounds softened by stalagmites
Citizens' history, written in strobe light

Magnets of loving people
Ore of the grounds supple
Blanket of salvation
Tablet and core of the nation...

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Don’t look at the girl with the holes in her eyes.
She sees through the darkness 
Beyond the disguise,
And the emptiness burns with her silent disdain,
A sound that is uttered in silent refrain
Because the syllables spoken, 
They can’t penetrate
The things she shuts out with an unspoken hate.

Beyond questionable murmurs of pleasure and pain
The strobe light repeats 
The smile she feigns
And the moment is defined by the things she can’t say
But she only sighs
Before looking away....

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