Best Tangos Poems

The seasons vary as they come and go,
and each, a lovely lady, loves to dance.
Fair Winter glistens in a gown of snow
she wears whenever she...

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The moon was neither full, nor was it not
She shone down radiant lighting the misty ole night
The waves lapped the shore
As a gentle breeze streaked...

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Moonlight tango

It was a Saturday night, in Buenos Aires, 10:30pm, to be exact. It was a hot summers night, and you could see, and feel,...

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I told my psychiatrist¹ he's a peach
    
          He ordered a change in...

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 It was a nice romance, she loved to dance 
 to the music's beat, but I had two left feet
 The circumstance made us...

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castle bound
castle masked
masked by clouds
masked by snow
snow holding horrors
snow dancing in candlelight 
candlelight deepening the hollows
hollows of deep sunk eyes
hollows of alcoves
alcoves with writhing lovers
alcoves...

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She said --- my skin is singing

Night air tangos with your kiss

There’s Hispanic heartbeats raging--

Conducted by our bliss

 

He said--my heart is racing

For the next...

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EDIBLE    MUSIC

The garlics are on grand piano in the corner,
Playing alone because  of their halitosis.
After  making each other’s mouth water,
Clever...

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"All the Pretty Words"



All the pretty words
blooming like summer jonquils
fade from the velvet fresh green tongues
and rich fecund tussled beds 
of poets and minstrels
strumming hearts...

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The tiniest tap
Within this vicious circle
Quickly amplifies


And so it begins
Spinning out of proportion
Stopping at nothing


Playing with passion
Lawless, careless, beautiful
Teasing misery


While our lives are swift
The top...

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Guitarra, I’m begging,express my heart
Pick away all that’s ever ached
Place these Spanish notes beautifully
To the angel of her face

Guitarra pleas, express this heart
Bring to life...

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It’s bleak and wet, the wind tangos the rain, 
And I sit here cosy and warm,
All rugged up alone, only my memories to ponder,
During this...

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Ripped apart emotions falling from my sleeve.
Every thought exploding, gentle as a breeze.
Starting from the center it piles up inside.
Until the body fills with lust...

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The clouds serenely waltz through languid days,
While buzzing mowers strut across the land,
The sultry tarmac sashays in the haze,
And pollen whirls, with tickle stick in...

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Tonight I sit with my incomplete saga at the Northern wing
Patiently anticipate for a romantic Local to sing

Alas! A Foreigner intoxicated with love, voices lyrics...

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Wearing her crown of dark cascades,
Her wooden staff with a flattened blade
Burying her secrets dark and deep
Of tri-tangos and bloody reaps
Adorned in shadows with reddened...

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Tanze, tanze,
meine Liebe,
dein Herz tanzt,
dein Haar tanzt,
deine Augen tanzen,
und ich, 
ganz nahe,
halte dich in meinen Armen,
meine Liebe,
mit deinem Geruch nach Apfelsinen und Honig.
Uns gehört die...

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I lingered at loves' door
Lips waiting for a kiss or two
A brush of passion 
A whisp of warmth
As many lovers do
The first was quite dull
Fumbly...

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Big, giant hands are wrapped around my neck
Before they let me take a step they always pull me back
They slap me, choke me, wipe their...

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COLD DAY

Cold day
June 29th
Windy
Leaf shadows ice the tree trunks
Sunshine looks cold
And there is helter-skelter

Cold day
Barely into summer
When the leaf-dance begins it tangos rather than waltzes
Under...

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Snow began to fall
Come dusk lovely tangos
Wind and flake

Silent wisps growing bold
Wicked, relentless
Hinting winter’s random temper

Silver frosted morning
White landscape
Reflecting purple painted sky

Breath taking dazzling
Lifting me...

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Fox glove tangos with the evening winds
My little Nicole had grown
What cradle doth she now lay without fatherly kiss?
How is my fairest one now turned...

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She dances like a devil, 
she fills my head with sin, 
she looks and smiles suggestively, 
so let the fun begin. 

She leads across the...

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The valley's call is louder
 than the mountain's peak.
 I fall.
 Fell halfway from the stairway to heaven.
 Here in the realm of the fallen...

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The world is her stage, she’ll perform on a dime, 
Her body she sways to the tune,
And she tangos, and rocks, and frolics around, 
Whenever...

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