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Best Tango Poems

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Premium Member Let's Tango
Life is a dance we were all born to do.
The styles to choose from are more than a few!
Some choose simple two-step; some move with...

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Categories: tango, dance, life,
Form: Rondeau



Premium Member For One Pass of Your Breath
you write your words and they make me cry
you write those word and you know i die
but i've died so often now

i held you in...

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Categories: tango, lost love, love, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Monroe Moon
In glamor-light of sunset
a new crowd of cumulus clouds arrive
and revive a sepia sky-scene—
unworldly woolgatherers gather
spinning fantasy fluff into quixotic yarns
of debutantes dancing with honeymoon...

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Categories: tango, age, beauty, lust, moon,
Form: Free verse
Life Is a Dance
Sometimes life is such a bore we run on automatic;
Then it’s time to tango for a dash of the dramatic.
Or when things are dull and...

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Categories: tango, life, life, life, time,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Dancing With Death
A raven sits alone, perched upon a tombstone,
humming an eerie tone, which is sombrely known.
This deadly treachery is disturbing my reverie.
A shadowy energy, ready for...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tango, death, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Dance Party In Summer
dance party of summer

blue waves rock and roll
 seashore tides shimmy and shake ~
  sunlight tap dances

white clouds pirouette
 delphiniums deep plies ~
 ...

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Categories: tango, celebration, dance, summer,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member To Dance In Fall
The falling leaves serenade and ballet 
Whilst the harvest moon slowly waves good-bye 
The sky; a straw-like yellow chardonnay 
As the "Good morning" sun rises...

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Categories: tango, autumn,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Party
The Party


Everyone is festive
All the ladies in pretty dresses

Champagne in flutes
Flirts in Armani suits

Waiters and penguins
Serving wine and cheeses

Musicians playing tango delights
Diplomats avoiding land mines...

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Categories: tango, conflict, poets, society, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Last Dance and May I Have This Dance
Last Dance by Darren White

Oh be my heart for me when it stops beating,

My lungs to breathe thin air still far too chill,

My feet to...

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© Sara Ella  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tango, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Weathered
Diminished by age, a weathered existence limps
Crutching dimmed vision and impaired limbs,
Much wiser that before, it speaks wisdom words
Entertaining grandkids in stories that enlighten,

Wishing the...

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Categories: tango, age, old,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Play On
*”If music be the food of love, play on.”
Play hard, but with a sweet guitar, play softly too.
Each note you play, I’ll sing along with...

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Categories: tango, love,
Form: Quatrain
Dance With Me
Writing is dancing with words...
     a titillating tango with verbs delicious...
          a...

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Categories: tango, language, poetry,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Premium Member Drenched In One Another
Yes I can still see her...

through rose colored glasses,

imagined!

In fact,

She is gorgeous.

I remember saying...

or at least thinking out loud

...You take my breath away,

She was a...

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Categories: tango, romance, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member French Bread
French Bread
	
	
	Your index finger 
	draws figure-eights 
	in the dusting of flour 
	on the counter top 
	where you lean
	quite casually, 
	watching as I make 
	a loaf...

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Categories: tango, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Popcorn Music
Pop (corn) Music


Introduction

It’s time to dance, time to tango
There’s a Canadian on the banjo
When he sees the guitar strings
Jack’s mirth grows soaring wings;
As he scans...

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Categories: tango,
Form: Rhyme

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