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Best Dori Poems

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Premium Member The Miller Girls: Now Presenting
Inside our parents’ bedroom by the door,
our sister Jenny played the old piano.
From all of us a melody would soar
in varying degrees of voice soprano.

A...

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Categories: dori, sister,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member A Collage For Dale
Here you are, only twelve, at our kitchen table.
Such a carrot top you were! Strangers used to think
you were our red-head mother’s natural son.

And here’s...

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Categories: dori, brother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Great People In My Life
My mother, whom I still can call any day.
My grandparents all long-since passed away.

My dad, deceased, I hardly got to know.
My stepdad who sadly died...

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Categories: dori, memory, people,
Form: List
Premium Member Five Sisters
To buy a star, I wouldn’t buy just one,
For one all by itself cannot be fun.
I’d buy a group, and five to be precise
because two,...

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Categories: dori, friendship, sisterhappy, happy,
Form: Quatrain
Meta-Fours
Been writing these rhymes for a while, 
imagination like quail man, keepin that Doug Funnie style

I keep my world in my mind it can't be...

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Categories: dori, cheer up, childhood, cool,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member Thursdays Recalled By the Family's French Fry Girl
The number of us children growing up was eight.
Each Thursday night was special, for our Dad got paid,
and we would eagerly and hungrily await
his bringing...

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Categories: dori, family, nostalgia, food,
Form: Quatrain
Best Friend Love
My heart beats slow.
Waiting and wondering if love will grow.

On a long road that starts with a meeting by chance,
Intertwining lives, together in our dance.

Your...

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© Dori Allen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dori, love
Form: Couplet
No Flowers In the Field
No flowers in the field
Sadness today
I wear upon my heart a shield

For in this field love grows
No harvest
Why?  Only God knows

Each season bears the...

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© Dori Allen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dori, love, heart, heart, love,
Form: Couplet
Wake Me Tomorrow
Wake me tomorrow,
In my peace…
For in this world,
I will not be.

Other shores I pass on to
An enlightened soul, new.

Wake me tomorrow,
In a new realm.
My soul...

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© Dori Allen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dori, deathme, me,
Form: Rhyme
Love
Love, the ultimate emotion, sacrifice, gift,
The mover of this earth, causing it’s shift.
Emotion of giving, my heart on this earth,
It’s here for the taking, for...

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Categories: dori, lovelove,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Five Sisters -Redone For Consistent Syllable Count
When we are together, we are a sight to see – Sisters!
Things always seem just right when I can have with me – sisters.

One named...

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Categories: dori, sister,
Form: Ghazal
Teri Yaad
Teri yaad 

Muskurahat mai khoya 
Baat dil Mai liye arman 
Dhakan hai naraz 
Janey kaab hogi mulakat 
Taman hai jo ban gayi 
Badua Dori ka...

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Categories: dori, blue, butterfly, care, imagination,
Form: Ghazal
My Life Is a Pain
Every day of the week
it's the same old story.
I can't even take a bath
without Nemo and Dori.

I have to share the tub 
with Bruce and...

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Categories: dori, children, funny,
Form: Rhyme
My Heart Journey
In the depth of the darkness
In the recesses of my soul
As I work and I wonder and I go to and fro
I think and I...

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© Dori Allen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dori, faith, inspirationalwork, life, work,
Form: Rhyme
I Stop To Think of the Souls
I stop to think of the souls,
That move in and out of our life.
Some for a day, 
Some for a life.
Some to bring love,
Some to...

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Categories: dori, people
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things