Its Not The Night

Its not the night
For foolin
Its not the night
For crazy eyes
I get the feelin
You want to stay
I get the feelin
Youre givin it all away
But I know
I know you take it well
And for you
For you I always fell
Its not the night
(its not the night)
For, for sweet revenge
Its not the night
(its not the night)
To spend
The time is right
To take it out

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song performed by Cars
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Samba master mango eats

Sweet tooth rose up to the tree
The rhythm blast mambo beats
Foot soles sing we're free we're free

Limbo dances crawl and creep
Ballet fragile tip toes mirth
Trumpets blow across the earth
Do not stop do not sleep

Tango steps sharp bodies break
Arms spin hips in a hoop
Colourful skins a rainbow make
Paving a wave to a final loop
2011.

poem by Miroslava Odalovic
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Our last tango

I feel so lonely
In this room for two
Smoking your thoughts
And drinking your dreams
We're still in that Paris
Our Paris
Even we didn't dance yet
Our last tango
You're my sitting stone
I'm your throne
Just open your petrified heart
Only for a second
To understand
That stupid metaphor
Of being together
Which means
Occasionally
Love

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poem by Marieta Maglas
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A Party

0n her 60th birthday
she had her hair dyed red
had a face life
and had her body
bleached

she wears her skimpy
outfit
with yellow flowers
on the fabric
her lips are thick
red
her body still makes
the swing
she dances the whole
night
does the tango and boogie

we cheer for her strength
still making it

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poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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The Frog and The Toad

Come, said the frog to the toad,
let us hop down to the pond,
at the end of the road.
Jump on to a giant lily leaf,
and watch the fish,
as they swim underneath.
Dine on the succulent dragon flies,
see the the world,
as it drifts by.

Then at the end of the day,
we can gaze at the stars,
watch the moon,
as it passes mars.

Come said the frog to the toad.

Tango

poem by Tango Tango
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Hard-headed Feet...

at the party of a friend on his
5lst birthday last night

they went on some revivals
matt monroe and
pilita corales,

gosh, they know the lyrics
by heart

i listened with the
giant ears of this year's
metallic rabbit.

tried to dance the salsa
and the mambo and the chacha
and that criminal tango...

disappointing indeed,

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poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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The Real Person

even if waltz is the dance of the day
for the dictator
there are those who dance
the tango
to his dismay

they reason out
that brave people only die once
as cowards die
a thousand deaths

they know how to dance the impossible
they are rocks that obstruct
the rage, the flow

we call them men of principles
they
who die earlier than expected
mark a name
in the fame of stones.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Welcome September

Wide awake i stare
on while the sea and the sun
tango as they give light
to a new day

Weary i open these eyes
as i embrace the warming sun
of a new day
August gave birth to September
and brought reminiscent of the last month
and gave way to new experiences

so eyes closed in faith i take
the time to thank my lord
for the light of a new day
and the breath of a new time

poem by Robert Roberts
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It Takes Two To Tango

It's true, yes it's true
I'm as guilty of the sin as you
I lived through it too
And as you can see it didn't hurt me
You must admit, you helped a bit
It takes two to tango
You know i wasn't alone
It takes two to tango
I remember it still
Drink a toast if you will
This is for the girls who just couldn't see
That my only sin was being me
And this one's for the girls and they know who they are
It's so long ago and i don't know
Now i don't recall all the details of the scene at all
But i had a ball
And learned all the games, forgot all the names
You must admit you learned a bit
This is for the girls who couldn't understand
What it's like to try to be a man

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song performed by Todd Rundgren
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Trapez duo

poetry is letting the conscious
and unconscious realms of the brain meet
so that they can teach each other the way
to tango to the heart of readers
so that they can fly onto each other
a trapez duo suspended on a literary rope
to amaze audience with mind sweeping
free and rhymed metres, spot on haiku,
rib tickling senryu, swinging pantuns, reflective
tankas and bewildering catchy love sonnets

poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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Visions and Moonlight in The Erotic Night

Preparing and sipping mystical tea,
My head begins to swim, some added element of enlightenment,
Visions and moonlight in the erotic night,
The removal of clothing,
Tango of rhythmic bodies, arms entwined, a necklace of kisses
Beginning on the nape of the neck
Reaching around to delicate breasts,
The blending of amorous breaths,
The proud bodies of desire
Begin to shine in the midnight hour.

poem by Uriah Hamilton
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Glitter & Litter

Sometimes It Happens
Life Taken
From Bright Eyes
With Just A Glimpse
Of Glitter
Soft Clouds
Illusory Guides
Bitterness
I Could Taste
And Danger
And My Beloved
Entangled
In A Crazy Tango

No Spirals
No Vortex
No Halves
No Peace

Life Creates

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poem by Erika Conti
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Did She Ever Dance The Tango?

Did she ever dance the tango
On those clear and cloudless nights?
Did she ever wash the dishes?
While I was wondering what might
Time have made of our new loving
Or was it moving out of sight?

Did she ever fully love you?
Or did she merely say she did?
Did she sometimes feel too tired?
Or did she not have any kids?

Did you simply just forget me?
Why did you let my passion die?
Why did you never ever let me
Just be me so i could fly?

poem by David Keig
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Dance Partners

Dance Partners.

A fox asked the flamingo up for a dance, but the bird
was coy and refused. A gray legged wolf promised to
to stand guard should the fox get frisky.

A match made in heaven, fox and flamingo swooned
and forgot their enmity. That’s when the wolf saw its
chance and mortally interrupted their tango.

How foolish the unlikely pair had been, thinking
nature could be bypassed, even for a brief moment,
in the name of passion and romance.

poem by Oskar Hansen
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Spiritual - I am just a little part of myself

so little is myself
a little corner left of heart
a consciousness
i claim it all - predatory
do i have full reins?
the lonely dead of night
it has choked me in tears
it holds full reins?
we tango together for sure
sometimes together
sometimes on opposite lanes
i am a dancer with set rules to follow
and have been told to be
totally responsible for missteps
the heart it is made to
measure them all
i am just a little space on left
meditating on them all

poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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The Dance

I shall dance before him this night-
Wrap him up in my spin and swirl...
Call unto him with my writhing-come hither-
Step, step him into my dancing whirl;

I will Tango deep inside of his psyche...
Cha-Cha my way into his heart-
Endear him with my dip and twirl ever softly-
And sustain him with my Art;

I shall waltz into his private space this night...
And take him totally by surprise...
Swing step him into my longing soul-
Steady dancing with him 'til the sunrise;

poem by Theodora Onken
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Escape Key

candy apple of my eye she
drops her veils
eye of reciprocity
am so moved accordingly

mouth fingers member avails

webcam tango tangle we
privately revel in marvels
manually testing technology

it is our time for privacy
in lieu of tangible intimacy
overcuming geography

circumventing
we make our lives just
a little bit better for the bruising

relieved I

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poem by Randy Resh
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Good day, this is music of millions

Do not look for anything faster.
Do not look for anything stronger.
Under the cape of happiness
magical sound carres us.
Sound that carries like the wind
carries desert sand.
Sound which a summer day
brings to an autumn night.
Into dreary autumn
it brings spring breath.
Breath which lifts us
Between the sky and the earth.
Breath which lasts
Like neverendng music.
The music of millions becomes
Our eternal day.
Good day, my dear.
This is Paco de Lucia.
This is Tango Flamenco.

poem by Jankovic Zoran
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The Mountain and the Wind

The mountain stands
The wind plays with her
Leaving her treetops in disarray
The wind moves on, unaware
Of the rustling gossips
Of him and her.

The mountain stands
The wind serenades her
A sighing song among the leaves
The wind moves on, unaware
Of the thousand songs he gave
Echoing in the bamboo grove of her heart.

The mountain stands
The wind dances around her
A waltz, a tango one eventide
The wind moves on, unaware
Of the face he left behind
Carved forever in her heart.

poem by Angelina Pandian
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Letter From The Wastland

Now coming down
From out of this swan dive
To your arms
I make no sounds
When I move through your reservoir
But I wake up quick
And I wake up sick
As you abandon me
Into these fields of rank and file
Through this crowd
I hear you breathing
And through these bars
I watch them bring more in
Now I send back letters
From the wasteland home
Where I slow dance
To this romance on my own
It may take two to tango
But boy, just one to let go
It's just one to let go

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song performed by Wallflowers
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