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Best Samba Poems

Below are the all-time best Samba poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of samba poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Samba Noir
Nether and far, darkness among stars
A painless realm daunting hidden charm
Neutrons and Adams, the beginning
Above the heavens, gods even sinning

Crimes of the universe
Negatives and positives
Black...

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Categories: samba, angel, art, beautiful, dark,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Dancing With Mom
When I was just a wee one
          my mom taught me to dance
   ...

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Categories: samba, analogy, dance, joy, life,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Graveyard of Poets
There's an obscurity on the threads of darkness
dare I peer beneath the starless shroud of midnight's veil
as I walk through the misty breath that beclouds...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: samba, analogy, death, lost,
Form: Free verse
Graveyard of Poets
There's an obscurity on the threads of darkness
dare I peer beneath the starless shroud of midnight's veil
as I walk through the misty breath that beclouds...

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Categories: samba, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silent Nightingale
A rhapsody of
rock and roll rain,
tango twisting winds,
samba snow flakes, 
step, skip, 
spin and swing.

So the subdued sun 
remains solemnly shy 
as its orchestra of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: samba, analogy, assonance, weather,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member Eurydices Passion and Love
Forevermore, I am your lover, Orfeo…..
My arms wrapped softly about your kness
As you strummed your guitar, Orfeo,
Your love songs, floating in a Brazilian breeze.


Our life...

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Categories: samba, for him, love, music,
Form: Quatrain
Living In the Music
The tuscan sun dips over the horizon
a river of red flows through the hills
gentle the sounds of love come alive
claiming another montalcino night

Echo the strums...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: samba, music, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Spooks Family Halloween Party
It was quite a party at the old Spooks house,
to a spooktactular Samba they bobbed and bounced.
with skeletons banging their big ox-bone drums,
and the pumpkins...

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Categories: samba, halloween, holiday, humor, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Latino-Americanos: the Children of An Oscuro Pasado
Baile con migo, hips made from the rhythm of merengés and cumbias, samba, swagger and a pinch of azucar mixed into my backbone. 
My first...

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Categories: samba, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
We Danced
I penned a couplet for you today.
Rather, a quill manipulated
my hand and scrawled mendacity.
The misanthrope's who read the ode
applauded with flippers on.

Such insight. Such depth.

Mussolini...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: samba, introspectionme, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Back To Rio
Take me back, to good old Rio
Let me lie there in the Sun
Then take a ride to Capo Ferro
Dancing Samba, having fun
And the girls will...

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Categories: samba, addiction, appreciation, beauty, happiness,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Mi Corazon
Wrap around 	me
just so

string yourself through the needle of time
chase the froth of foam lipping the tide
let my nascent heart tap 	with the tip of...

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Categories: samba, romance,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Put On Your Night Shoes
Put on your night shoes, my beautiful dear,
and put on your gossamer gown.
Adorn your neck with the iridescence
of opal, and let your hair down!

Your tresses...

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Categories: samba, dance,
Form: Quatrain
Dancing Dame In the Frame
Today... 
       Let me swirl, let me sway,
           ...

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Categories: samba, art, dance, girl,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Bright Flames of Jazz
Lady Ella, Queen of Jazz:
      you brought so many songs to life.
   Forget the words? Just make up...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: samba, music, tribute,
Form: Rhyme

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