Short Tambourine Poems

Short Tambourine Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Tambourine by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Tambourine by length and keyword.


The Soul of Man

when
time is made of 
grains of sand
then
we are 
trapped in 
the 
hourglass
the 
soul of man
each time
the
cosmos bets
her 
tambourine


Premium Member FUSIONS


"Mr. Tambourine Man" FUSIONS Hey Mr Tambourine Man your words made me a fan Song- just-a-jingle-jangle yet reflect the 60's angle
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Tambourine Man

Tom played the tambourine
It was a spectacular scene
He danced as he played
The dreadful noise that he made
Caused the people that passed him to scream
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Queen of the Jazz Festival

turquoise tambourine tingling around
a sassy scintillating silvery sexy sound
jaunty jubilant dancer leaping from the ground
queen of the jazz festival, she is quickly crowned
Form: Rhyme

Hey, Bob Dylan

So you think you can heal
 all the wrongs in the world,
  then just play your song,
   give it a harsh, biting tune,
    make it sting as you sing,
     tambourine-playing man!
Form:


Haiku On Bob Dylan's

frightened trees
cannon balls fly
where teardrops fall

10.17.16


Title of the songs for each line used
Mr. Tambourine Man
Blowing In the Wind
Where Teardrops Fall
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Jubilant Tambourine

Play on jubilant tambourine.
Your silvery zills quaking,
quicken rockstones from such slumbers.
Shake, zealous with the spirit, 
punctuating hallelujah,
ringing fresh as a new year.
Form: Other

Premium Member Ruth

Rain poured the night before
Reviving cobblestone
Ribbons round tambourine
Rollick, she kept ringing
Response of the peasants
Remarkable impact.
Ray of blush on her face


9/2/2023
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Pleiades

Till The Music Stops

Learn to Fandango
castanet in your hand
Tambourine calling
 its bells to command

Dance every Tango
before it’s too late
Death in the offing
— the wolf at the gate

(Dreamsleep: April, 2025)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member GLEEFUL TAMBERINE

I woke in a cheer toned embrace. Enthused by the bubbly hold, I wished to spread its hugging sound. Joyful feel emotively played jolly, jingling, jangling notes on a gleeful tambourine.
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Super Bands

Kevorkian played the fiddle of death.
Fauci (mask on) mouths an alto sax.
Putin taps away on nuclear keys.
Xi bangs away on a drum of disease.
Lap dog Jong taps a tiny tambourine.
While Bunny Biden lip-syncs to an audience of 1.

Premium Member Room To Shake My Tambourine

Room to shake my tambourine
That’s all I ask, and a space to dance 
And twirl my scarves and entice you to pay
A corner to read your palm and collect silver
A tiny nook to park tarot and runes
Most of all a place to shake my bracelets

Premium Member timid tambourine

can shivering in pain be heard,
taut timbre ~ now memories...
the sound is real ~ pain forgotten
yet heard like iced limbs shaken
and crash where summer thunder reigned
~ now fall in icy silence...

Written Jan 29 for Nette's "Connect the Dots" contest
Form: Other

Premium Member Woodstock Sixty Years Later

a musical trio
livening up the prairie
enthusiastic beatnik dog on bongo drums
terrifically talented tambourine-playing Tomcat
Romanian beauty with flashing eyes with a ukulele
people arrive to sing along and dance
it feels like the seventies
Woodstock sixty years later

Treadmill

he's a treadmill
living palindromic days
real time
which doesn't help
neither does his lawyer
but victimaholic attitudes
those aches and pains
in dust filled boxes
aspiring to move away
unfortunately for him
his shadow
and his tambourine
are just where 
he likes them

Premium Member Santa Uses a Sleigh

Santa uses a sleigh
A race car!
A sled!
A tambourine!

How do you use a tambourine?
He drummed out a beat.
We mean to get around
To travel

Oh, that’s easy.
He has a limousine.
We are in ready-to-punch-each-other mode now
Just then Santa flies by under a helium balloon

Premium Member Iambic Pentameter

But soft, what light from yonder window breaks?
Is the east, why did I think it was hark?
The soft part, I mean. Iambically pent
tambourine? Am now off of iambic

But diggin the idea, am just waltzing
please don't take too much offense
'cause that would suck royally,

don'tcha think?
Form:

Queen of Soul

Queen of Soul


Blessed is thy hand 
Play the tambourine 
Master the harp and the strings
Golden is thy breath 
Play the trumpet 
Grand is thy voice 
Sing hymns 
With joy and presence 
Darling, bless your heart
And give him thanks
Amen 




Marckincia Jean
Free verse
06/26/19

Premium Member Bring Congregation and Songbirds Alive

A banjo on her knee
A phrase that makes me smile
I have never seen this myself

But I have played a tambourine
Not in church like two of the regulars,
But in my house, and outside, in my forest.

It makes worship ever jazzier, 
In both a church and the woods.

Brings congregation and songbirds alive, 
Competition on.

Premium Member The Empty Room

In the empty room loneliness sets
the rules in shades of darkest blue;
blue the color of regrets,
and haze of countless cigarettes
through which the past is dimly seen
as phantoms lost in-between 
the projector and the screen,
where relays of surreal dreams,
and jingle of the mind's tambourine,
repeats and beats life's lost vignettes.
Form: Rhyme

For Gabriel - Who Can'T Really Speak

My nephew 
     has severe autism 
He has a tough time in 
    this world 
I've taught him to sing snatches 
   of Nat Kind Cole's "NatureBoy" and the 
Lemon Piper's "Green Tambourine"
   We all love this kid 
It would break his mother's heart 
  If he wound up in a group home 
So have a kind thought 
    for Gabriel 
"We must love one another or die"
Form: Concrete

Rhymes Are Fun

Anytime I rhyme, I climb, ascending higher and higher
It clarifies life, it fuels my fire

Words constantly cycling through my head
Some I made up, most have already been said

Like: feather, wall, brick, or tambourine
Question! How much for that submarine?

Back to el point; writing, specifically in rhymes, purifies my mind
It centers my soul, bringing me closer to the divine
Form: Couplet

Dylan Echoes

You play me for stupid.
You strum me with lust
across the brass bed,
all the words lying in the dust
of an old refrain.

You play me for stupid
while your smiles suck,
fluttering eyelashes duck
down to cover this
pain in here.

The slithering stealth
of your seductions
no longer intrigues.
I play my deductions,
subtraction reaction
as you disappear
with your tambourine.
© Sue Mason  Create an image from this poem.

At the Party

tequila worm faces dabble in Dali.

I depart for deeper woods,
take matches
to a snoozing clown—

watch moonbeams become the vortex of a raw swarm.

I must wait for pesky dawn roulette angels
to spin into black pockets,

try to hold these blurred poses of planet plentiful
as the sound of seventh son's tambourine
drifts from the hysterical sea

where Van Gogh's ear is a conch shell.
Form: Imagism

Premium Member If I had a Guitar and a ukelele

If I had a guitar and a ukelele
I would be singing songs from eight to three
perfect runs would cascade out into the atmosphere
every one of my notes would be crisp and crystal clear

If I had a tambourine, I would jingle jangle that too
too bad my musical talents would fit in a drop of dew
I cannot even clap on rhythm, but neither can Willie
And he’s made a fortune being country and silly
Form: Rhyme

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