Best Tango Poems
Below are the all-time best Tango poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of tango poems written by PoetrySoup members
Let's TangoLife 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
For One Pass of Your Breathyou 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
The Monroe MoonIn 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 DanceSometimes 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
Dancing With DeathA 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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Categories:
tango, death, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Dance Party In Summerdance 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
To Dance In FallThe 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
The PartyThe 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 DanceLast 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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Categories:
tango, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
WeatheredDiminished 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
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
Categories:
tango, language, poetry,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
Drenched In One AnotherYes 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
French BreadFrench 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 MusicPop (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