Man and woman
Two Partners touch
Their legs entwine
She’s in his clutch
Rhythm controls
Two burning souls
Ah ha
Ole
They dip, then twist
Just two exist
back kick, sashay
Then push away
Their body’s heat
To tango beat
Da da
Ole
Heads turn, lock eyes
Gyrate their thighs
With push, then pull
the rhythms rule
Held hands lead way
across the floor
tiptoes at play
Tango raport
Ta da
Ole
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Author Notes
The Tango is a dance that emulated in Argentina. The Tango poem tries to capture the essence of that dance. Tango uses a 4/4, a 2/2, or a 2/4 rhythm, with an angular staccato emphasis. According to the book Tango Allegrio, the poem format was introduced by the singer Carlos Gardel in order to provide lyrics to the music. The poem uses almost any format that conveys the essence of the dance, but is strongly influenced by a meter of 2 or 4. The poem must contain the word Tango within its verse. Rhyme is optional. Here I used eight line stanzas (Octaves) with the following meter: 4-4-4-4-4-4-2-2. I chose a rhyme scheme of: abcbddef aabbccde aabbcdcdef (just to mix thing up).
The image was uniquely created for me using the AI software program Microsoft Copilot.
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