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Tarantella Poems - Poems about Tarantella

Premium MemberDancing Lessons

...Dancing lesson number one:
don't step on her foot or shoe
when you're out having fun
in a sport that's best for two.

When two and two double up,
I think you should have four.   
and that's th...
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Categories: tarantella, dance, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAnimal Identities

...A is an ape who wishes he were a man - why?
B is a butterfly who dreamed he was a man - why not?
C is the cat who wants to sit in my chair, when he knows I want to sit there.
D is the dignified du...
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Categories: tarantella, animal, identity,
Form: Abecedarian



Premium MemberSicily Evening

...Italia we strolled the country side throughout 
the villages of Sicily peeking through stone 
ways above garden nooks of Puglia catering to 
the soft and sensual galleries of floral canvases 
tha...
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Categories: tarantella, allah,
Form: Epithalamium

Premium MemberSundrops

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Sundrops dapple umbrageous trees 
strewing uncut diamonds, littering the path
with ambient flickers of what lies beyond.

Sundrops freckle ocean's surface
accenting the ripples that pa...
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Categories: tarantella, environment, insect, nature, ocean,
Form: Tristich

Premium MemberPizza, Puckers, Passion

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                  10/31/2023

“ O Sole Mio”, the accordionist plays.

 Your feet snuggle mine,in a Chianti, misted haze.

 The perfect place forus to become engraved!
  
  A little, sh...
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Categories: tarantella, drink, engagement, imagery, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberLovely

...How I would love to dance with you along the Naples bay,
And then escape towards our restaurant beyond the archway.
Listen, as they play love songs with gusto on the mandolin
As Peppinello prepare...
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Categories: tarantella, love,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberNight of Aurora

...Night of Aurora	

Dance of Life -
Night of Aurora before the midnight sun,
Before the polar threshold of the daystar,
As Aurora’s swirling spirals flicker
In winsome purple-green electric flash...
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Categories: tarantella, light, sky, winter,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEsmeralda, As Told By the Poet Pierre Gringoire - With Apologies To Victor Hugo

...I had been placed in chains 
Where the cripples shed their canes 
And the blind regained the art of seeing.
It was a robbers’ den 
And as all God fearing men, 
I had assets needed freeing.

So...
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Categories: tarantella, allegory, desire, literature, romantic,
Form: Lyric

He Haw, I Cried

...Hee Haw, I Cried 
By Sy Roth

With a mulish hee haw, 
I wrap myself in my own divine comedy.
Commedia dell’arte path 
For a blind mercenary of his own fate.

An ormolu wonder stood before me-...
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Categories: tarantella, conflict,
Form: Free verse

You Did This

...Changed me yes you have already
Flying to the sky maneuvering in the milky way of beauty
The tarantella of the love songs you make my inner person sing
Sparks you throw on my face at just a though...
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Categories: tarantella, love,
Form: I do not know?

Dance Lives Life

...Like a sweet child in ballet
 toe steps glide across the archway,
A graceful pirouette holding breath and heartbeat
 balanced then suddenly rising like modern athletes.

A rhythmic cadence hustl...
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Categories: tarantella, dance, life, , Lullaby,
Form: Rhyme

Sanity Masquerade

...The air slipped onto the gramaphone the needle cutting me bleeding on the floor as mannequins watched with there masquerade masks sewn on took my arm saying "care to dance my lady" as we waltzed into...
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Categories: tarantella, dance, drink, gothic, mental
Form: Lyric

The Perfect Partner - Dance

...To a rhythm my feet were moving.
Left, right, T.A.N.G.O.
Moving at a pace full of life and spirit.
A willing partner I had.
Twirl, pause, five steps always ahead.
Stamp and up he holsters me.
H...
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Categories: tarantella, dance, goodbye, lust,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberA Tarantella

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I drift by, an open window
Faintly I see a candle glow
I hear the music's happy cry
An open window, I drift by

I linger there, to hear the beat
The urge to dance grabs at my feet
A ...
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Categories: tarantella, music,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberChristmas In Milan Italy

...This Christmas started out just the same 
as all thee other one's I mean mom 
baking her famous fruit cake 
while my two aunt argue back and forth

over my uncle Paulie being late with the turke...
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Categories: tarantella, allah,
Form: Italian Sonnet

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