Short Rumba Poems

Women dance in step
Happy rhythmic rumba style-
Sisters, one and all...

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Snowy mountain peaks,
dance for thunderous applause.
Avalanche rumba!...

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down by the sea shore -
silhouette conjoinment dance -
under cloud's cluster...

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Rumba we are in Cuba
Swirl we dance the floor
Roomba the vacuum we clean the floor....

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Peacock
Twirling violet
Sideways sizes
His rival.

Jungle rumba
royal headdress
Bobbing in unison

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This is a Septolet but the correct form isn't available...

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As the young king 
is coming
to collect his bride, 
African traditional 
tambourines
are playing 
the  drums 
and  dancing
African kwasa kwasa 
and Congolese rumba....

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come on honey
forget the money
my love comming down
can't you hear the sound
lay down on the bed
lay bac your head
move your hips let dip
and sumba
BABY LETS DO THE RUMBA...

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it was at night
under the beach light
we listen to aband
lay back in the sandy
and held hands
kiss and did that and this
it was like a rumba dance
you teach
ROMANCE ON THE BEACH...

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eyelids
twist with joy
as she moves
in a maze-rumba;

native voice
lost in the night
light fades
with setting loves;

crowns are no crowns:
innocence is scorched!
her lips sings a word:
“forlorn!”...

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Once upon a time
When with legs, ref-ward!
While the noon full-fed 
Upon the lass’s pot belly; 
Then, they in the ref
Heard what 
Once I heard 
What 
The madman said:
“I like to dance Cuba’s rumba” 
O, Cuba’s rumba in Africa!...

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Come to me my dancing love
I have waited oh so patiently
Que in the Cha Cha my darling
Waltz your way towards me   

Set the music in burning fire  
Bring your Salsa closer to me
Tango your body around me
And release the Rumba in you...

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Afrika of Mapendo
The foetus is smiling in her Tumbo, 
Which is big like an African Tembo.
Afrika of precious Roho,
singing  lovely Rumba,
traditional Ngoma
making Simba
dancing on long Mulima
Which is  called Kilimanjaro
In Tanzania 
And Kenya. 

July 17/2023...

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Bubujumba Bubujumba
 
                                              Halted for lunch at Udumba

                                                          Ate poppy

                                                          Felt dopey
 	
                                            Began to dance rumba rumba...

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A Silent Musical in One Act

Premiered at The Shipwreck Marina, 
New Orleans, LA – 11/06/2012

COWBOY PSYCHIATRY
REPUTATION RUMBA
DEPRESSION BABY
ORNAMENTAL LAUGHTER
INTERNET DATING PROFILE
PROPHECY 
LOOSE LEAF DIARY
BORDERLINE DISORDER 
ESCHATOLOGY
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
THE DARK
EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY
HINDU VOODOO
COMMINIQUÉ FROM GETHSEMENE...

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The music,
The touching,
The after.

All the types
    from Folk to Polka,
            Tango, Rumba, Samba,
            Waltz to Square,
            Cha Cha, Mambo, Twist ,
            Tap, Jazz, Rock.
Ballroom Proms to Backyard Parties,
Late Night Dives and Quite Evenings.
Steps that Jump, Slide Skip and Hop,
And then some motion stops.

Then we go INTERPRETIVE...

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Dance
makes me
play, act, move
like chic play girl
bold, carefree, nimble,
self-expressing feelings.
High-spirited freestyling
Sexy, flirty with fast salsa 
Lively, jazzy in swing and shimmy
Romantic, seductive with rumba
Passionate, controlled in tango
Sensual with bachata
Pert, saucy in chacha
Elegant in waltz
Slick in disco
It let me
amuse
me. 
...

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Let me dance a slow dance with time
skipping and hopping in a straight line
without twists or turns,
without pocks in the sidewalk
to trip, fall down and bruise-up
Your child's knees.

Let me dance, jump and pirouette
with hip-hop soft-shoe tap dancing;
maybe a tango, maybe a waltz,
maybe a drum-line, maybe a march,
maybe a cha-cha-cha, maybe a rumba~
all the way into the Grandest Ballroom....

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         Kittens love robots and robots love kittens.
     Should we be concerned?
         Is there something those two would like to tell us?
    
Besides, cowabungaaaaaaa, coming through, who wants to touch me?!
Here's a it sucks to be you smack for you, wait your turn. Here's a smack for you to enjoy while you look at me zoom on by on my Roomba. While my robot friend dances the rumba. 
On a steel horse I ride....

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Luminesence 
besprinkles fantasies
on liquid love
surrounding us.
Riding the ebb and flow,
we rock
we lull,
we ripple
in the reverberations 
of our aphrodisia.
Salty breezes
teases our excitement
as we salute Venus
with sexual gifts.
Moonlight waltzes scintillant riffles
across the glass-sea surface
to the bateau we sail;
as we dance, 
rumba romance
in rhythmic swells,
on our Little Piece of Heaven.


Susan Ashley
July 25, 2017...

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Why do we wait till we hear from God? 
If we don't, then it's not a go
Why do we think we can fight God? 
Who are we kidding?
Why does God let us do what we wanted?
So we can learn a lesson? 
Nah so He can learn a lesson
Lol just kidding
Why don't we ever learn?
Never 
We just like to do it again
Not
If I tell you "you are not a king of your world" 
would you believe it? 
Me neither
Lol
Do you believe God will give you anything?
You'd better believe it!
Haha...

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Parachutes and pillboxes clamor,
such a colorful rumba of
mood elevators locked in time-
released buffers. They can't wait,

they can't wait for the future,
with stanisodium fluoride
and beta blockers, humming
walls of dazzle in high-def,

explosions and collisions in rich
clarity with those smug ties
and flirty personas. Clearly
those farmers didn't want

freedom enough if they weren't
happy being blown into
confetti in a grand unveiling
of just what globalism means....

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