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Best Tangos Poems

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


Premium Member A Season's Dance
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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Categories: tangos, seasons,
Form: Personification



Premium Member The Whore and the Sea Part 1
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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Categories: tangos, allegory, angel, french, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Panagiota
Panagiota is a whirling Galaxie
with her blue thunder words
a spirit like black diamond lightning..
She bruises the clueless and ignorant
not out of hate but of love
not...

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Categories: tangos, courage, poetess,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Parade
Fantasy 2-22-24  
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Parade

At midnight dawn my mind escapes parting the stars
Making my way to a summerland torchlight parade
Where grand marshals of zebra fish 
Lead...

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Categories: tangos, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Kaleidoscopic Sky
Written: December 05, 2023
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Earth's mysteries—swirling in the sky.
Heaven is comely with lemon meringue.
Vaporizing clouds...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tangos, analogy, appreciation, color, sky,
Form: Free verse



Moonlight Tango
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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Categories: tangos, dance, desire, men, moon,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Dream Helpers


                DREAM HELPERS


In my dreams, tonight I will dance like...

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Categories: tangos, dance, fantasy, imagery, romance,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Storms of Fall Splendor
8-16 Lines of Fall Splendor – 9-12-23
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Storms of Fall Splendor

Whirlwinds of splendor jitterbug in back streets,
Autumn’s song breathes in a blizzard of umber,
Downpours of vermillion...

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Categories: tangos, autumn, color, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ballroom Dancing
It was a nice romance, she loved to dance 
 to the music's beat, but I had two left feet
 The circumstance made us take...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tangos, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Masked At Midnight
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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Categories: tangos, murder, mystery,
Form: Blitz
Tuneless Tango
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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Categories: tangos, life, love, sensual,
Form: Rhyme
Edible Music
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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Categories: tangos, music
Form: Couplet
Premium Member All the Pretty Words
"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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Categories: tangos, romance, sensual, word play,
Form: Romanticism
The Top
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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© Gael Attal  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tangos, allegory, art, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Haiku
Guitarra, Express My Heart
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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Categories: tangos, death, devotion, happiness, hope,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs