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Congas Poems - Poems about Congas

Premium Member In Hip City
...In Hip City/Tony Adamo where rhythms collide, and no jive is spoken/ Guru laid down the truth, a fusion of jazz and rap/ no holds barred streetwise rap talk/ Just as Herbie’s touch on keys/ his Hea......

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Categories: congas, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
Premium Member No Flexin'
...NO FLEXIN/ Word and Art/Tony Adamo Iconic slick rhymes/ trumpet beats sampled/ Latin soul grooves on Bronx Street/ No flexin’, just real 90's rap/ Hip hop flows into jazz spoken word soul/ jazz......

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Categories: congas, music, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word



Premium Member Dark dances in the light with my BLIND BROTHER-
... I have a blinded man from birth as a brother Spent time with him first ten years. We sat in the kitchen floor playing bongos And congas on mom’s pots and pans Every time my parents woul......

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Categories: congas, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form: Verse
Premium Member In a Silent Way-
..."In a Silent Way" The blackness screams; The light is a mime; How is it that my mind dreams; Of those audios, things; Just aren’t real folded ears; Music plays dissipates; Trumpet cries out......

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Categories: congas, analogy, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Free verse
A Party Line
...A Party Line Not a party line like the wild winding party line of congas dancing one-......

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Categories: congas, community, for teens,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Shuffle Pleiades S
...Pleiades Shuffle - S Sashay down the city street, Sidewalks dance square sambas, Sassy solo boogaloos Swing steps sway then hand jive Salsa steps won’t shuffle Street dances stroll and stomp ......

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Categories: congas, dance,
Form: Pleiades
Premium Member Dance
...DANCE Daily he watched her a vigil of desire masked by the suit, by the business demeanor of the corporate nineties, a faint tambourine tingling the spine, kindling a rhythm at the edge of ......

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Categories: congas, love, music,
Form: Free verse
Crack the Coconut
... Monkey loves to crack the coconut, crack de coconut wide open wide Monkey loves to drink from the coconut cup, all de milky white delicious juice inside Sister monkey see what brother monkey......

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Categories: congas, animal, brother, fun, sister,
Form: Light Verse
Dancing In the Round
...Poet: Ken Jordan Poem: Dancing In The Round Edit by: Sparkle Jordan written: January/2016 I hear the sound of Africa's drums calling me to dance, in the round. Drum......

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Categories: congas, africa, black african american,
Form: Verse
Premium Member This, My Ink's Desire
... Yes…feel me, temper my insanity, hold my fleshed passion as I connect with an audience to share how a night devours monsters at the seams. And yet, this refrain loses as the final poll ......

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Categories: congas, art, identity,
Form: Free verse
A Nuyorican I Be
...Latin sound, Latín Sound Latin all around and upside down I search for you inside of me a Nuyorican's destiny The beat and rhythm, Is it in my blood? This Salsa is too spicy for me The......

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Categories: congas, culture
Form: ABC
Las Boricuas
...Las Boricuas Latinas bailan Dance your Salsa Dance your Merenque Dance your history Of conquest and survival Las Boricuas Latinas bailan Debajo de las Palmas En sue colored brillantes Against......

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Categories: congas, absence
Form: Prose Poetry
Truth
...Maim the drums of Truth And sear callous palms To beat the congas of Lie: Yet, Truth will make its sound Tear; mutilate the psalms of Truth And renew the muse of the bards To publish the prov......

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Categories: congas, life
Form: Free verse
Poetry and Song
...Please don’t get it twisted or take it wrong I could be that one You deserve that, you deserve me But you hold back your love from me Even going as far as hurting me. Pretending like you don’t ......

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Categories: congas, devotion, friendship, hope, love,
Form: Bio
Danse Macabre
...Danse Macabre Twin Old Glorys jitterbug above the hoods as silent heralds; the motorcade congas three-abreast along the Stemmons Freeway sleek in shiny chrome. Long honks and short beeps unite in h......

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Categories: congas, history,
Form: Free verse

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