Long Tangos Poems

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 my face
Alone by the sea, clouds, the moon and me

The...

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Mitchell: At this level, as with the rest, one might also find those who have stumbled down from a higher step on the crystal staircase from dancing too many tangos in their Manolo Blahniks, as...

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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 with 
fingers that waltz over keys
plucking tangos from dreams of
sensitive...

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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 can get the chance.

She often glides through night beneath the...

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We are the people of a new era, with patchwork hearts and longings in craters,
The generation of bold dreams sketched on shards of fallen stars.
Let us not forget, let us breathe in: the source of...

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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, the steam rising from the cobblestone street, here in La...

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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 are supple lilies swaying in the evening  breeze
 like...

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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 digits all like thumbs
And when it came to kissing
A mouth...

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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 take a chance
 And we enrolled for ballroom lessons.. (sweet)

 I...

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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 the festival from fiery snow drifts of spun clouds
Making way...

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Little waves of light, reflecting darkest night,
Embracing shadows, so alive – feelings to recite.

Little wonders, growing, soft and silent, flowing,
Coloring hearts, so graceful – amazing, mind blowing.

Little whispers, rising, fragile but so energizing,
Breathing hope through...

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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 with frosted pink floors
floors ripe for waltzes 
floors hiding trap...

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Mango season, for us, is a celebration,
Our eyes are on enthusiastic elation;
In sunlight, they shine in golden green,
We children gather to witness the scene;
Though we have our mangroves, 
Neighbor’s is tastier; reason none knows;
As throwing...

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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   lemons  blowing  their  trumpets ...

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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 sweat on me
They are the hands of mighty HISTORY.

Suspicious eyes...

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the list is a thing that broke my heart
it tore me and my friends apart
ranking us was so demeaning
you didn’t even have a reason
you didn’t even think about it
the classroom i just walked right out...

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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 Musik,
tanze, tanze,
der Rhythmus trägt uns
mit seinen Armen der Liebe und...

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Written: December 05, 2023
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Earth's mysteries—swirling in the sky.
Heaven is comely with lemon meringue.
Vaporizing clouds are dulcet and colored.
Cinnamon light was shed on my shoulders.

Peering...

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Kite                         

A plastic colored bird,
waltzing in the sky,   ...

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MUSIC IN THE LISTENING LAB
 
Notes!  Notes of music
Bouncing 	
Off of walls – off of chairs
Off of ceilings and off the floors
Running down the hall in half steps
	Flooding every inch of space
	In atonal tangos...

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Nature Wonders

I stand in awe as nature wonders
Of raucous waves and roiling thunders
Rushing streams released as winter thaws
As nature wonders I stand in awe.

Spring awakens, her heartbeat quickens
A pulse of sap through bare boughs thickens
Fields...

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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 create flushed retreats
Crimson cloudbursts, impetuous as thunder.

Tempests magenta scuttle on...

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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 so deep
Goosebumps from my toes to my nape shamelessly creep

The...

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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 a mist that hast flown?

It grieves to sing lullabies to...

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Its all you Spring with your patter sounds of raindrop 
and your clear cut droplets, of refresh-petrichor  !
Inside this scented garden you immerse and thrive, 
through channels of irrigative pleasures, a  flower grows;...

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