Best Tambourines Poems

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Here on the night before yesterday’s dream,
twilight composers retreat
Laughing at whispers a’ flow on the stream,
happily taking a seat

Practicing meadowlark lyrics to sing,
strumming a toadstool...

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A pregnant lass with eyes of glass had never learned to cope;
once set adrift her fall was swift, she slid a slipp’ry slope.
She fled the...

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Oh beautiful Gypsy,
I see you there, in amber campfire mist.
On the banks of a crystalline pool, a bronze skinned lovely moving with intoxicating rhythm to...

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"Boys Cry 2"

The Sons of Fathers
The Fathers of Sons
God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
Left him alone in Dark Woods
to fend off ribbons and tambourines,...

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to proclaim your love
in the morning
and your faithfulness
at night
to the music of
the ten-stringed lyre
and the melody
of the harp 
      ...

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 Continued from Part 1 

The Beggars ’neath the balustrades,
and broken Children, Chambermaids,
are running wild from wraiths, afraid
	of dreams where death redoubles.
They fritter time with...

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"BLACK CAT"



SILENCE
prowls on soft paws 
with sharp claws
Cutting up the 
Middle Road
Dark shadow moves 
SILIENCE
In absentia 
Empty Absynthe
Puncture wounds
Cold wind blows
Over tracks
Skids softly
like warm 
gants...

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 Continued from Part 1 

The forgery of Multitudes between the Silhouettes
(and discarded cigarettes,
neath the haunted parapets)
mock my lonely echoed steps
    ...

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Now, Railroad Bob has lost his job, he’s got no place for working,

His wife, she cries with desperate eyes, their baby’s head’s a’ jerking.

The union...

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Her true instinct's voice is soft-wave...

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Tonight a Buffalo Hunt dance is being performed with the utmost gravitas, 
its February and food supplies are grievously low,
inside the massive hide lodge a...

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In late October the reddest moon didn't change its phase,
it remained in the same spot to watch the witches' ballet;
the loud music matched the mood...

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Striking colored lights dazzle
Her dynamic dance routines—
Wearing stagehands to a frazzle
Illuminating live scenes
Spotlighting three tambourines.
Her shimmering white tights cast
Opalescence unforeseen
Climaxing one last bright blast.

Caryl Ramsdale...

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as tambourines pulse...
 
    stallions rock with gypsies' whirl

        firing dance of  hooves






12/27/ 2016...

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It's time...
For a mother
In this mother.

Bring out those tambourines!
Brother Wolf will scream, as
Black, white, and in-between keys harmonize as teams.

It's time!
Let's look the world over
Wise...

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Swiftly swallowing resentment of play
Acting and dancing to music
Shallow beats and tambourines
There are wild hills full of echo
Mindless ghouls and children skipping through fog
Thick and...

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 I hear the low hum of gray 
 As it moves  across  the sky
Forming  rain clouds up high
As rumbling chants gather...

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Last night I watched in silence
At the end of the road in forest deep
I hid amongst the trees watching in awe
As gypsies dance while others...

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Full moons, falling stars
Milky way, candy bars
Chicken soup, ham on rye
A BLT or key lime pie
The good things that life can bring
Can be embedded in...

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Naked trees whose dilapidated bodies have outgrown the test of time
shoot unseemly  into the unaccommodating sky flustering as they walk by
Nude trees laden with...

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tickling my soft sensitive skin
sounds like violin
into my soul
can feel it all

glitters and paint full bathed
suffice one's need
can’t spurn the air
adorn and blare

drums and tambourines...

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Admirable heroine of
Beauty, power and fame
Can we dance by hymn? 
Acrylic heroine of
Crayons and filbert paints 
Both amiable not to stain 
Doth of your dressed...

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A Wandering Boy with a Song in His Pocket
Arabic Poem by: Salman Dawood Mohammed 
Translated into English by: 
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
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Just like the wind 
I...

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The stage was being set. 
I needed to get out of the way so that I 
Would not end up squashed by the stage's immense...

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Our countryside road was

Festooned with orange heaps

Escorting us to be the grand orange fair

The gypsy dancers in orange flares

Jingled tambourines with orange ribbons

The bloated sun...

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