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Best Dove Poems

Below are the all-time best Dove poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dove poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member A Vanilla Dove
Cypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties 
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel...

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Categories: dove, bird, death, grief, hope,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Dove In Your Eyes
How fast to wiles I fell my damask rose,
awake from slumber slept untold ages.
To gaze so deep in ocean eyes repose,
and print whispered prayer on...

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Categories: dove, imagery, lonely, love, perspective,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Never Shame a Woman
Never ever shame a woman
for the fire in her soul
still your fear that you're unable
to give that which makes her whole

Never ever shame a woman
for...

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Categories: dove, passion, women,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Your Judas Like Tan
""Child's Play""

You go down like rain,
A wishing star in disguise, 
You scream bloody murder 
-the perfect two-face disgrace
Your lips forever stain and reside with Benedict...

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Categories: dove, betrayal, change, conflict, daughter,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member As Flowers Crumble Collaboration With Silent One
Lullabies through tear filled eyes
It's truly, love at first sight
The bond is forged and galvanized
To hold forever tight

Each time you needed a hand
She always had...

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Categories: dove, love, mother son,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member My Winter's Wishes
In the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed  
swaddled...

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Categories: dove, age, god, hope, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Summer Lace
The shadows fall like summer lace
       Through palm trees fluttered in the sun
The soft caress of dawning breeze
 ...

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Categories: dove, beauty, day, love, morning,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Guise of Blue Jay Skies
F  l  y  i  n  g

a sailing tailwind
in cerulean streams
through creamsicle colored beams -
are wings reflective of turquoise truth 
and...

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Categories: dove, autumn, bird, blue, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Plastic Narcissist Collaboration With the Silent One
When we search for answers from egotistic minds,
life is full of meaningless questions that lead us nowhere.
You sabotaged the sandman who brought me my dreams,
corrupting...

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Categories: dove, abuse, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hero
In a world where hearts ignore compassionate cries.
Acts of kindness become rare, so empathy dies.

As human nature loses the skill to listen,
his mission is to...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dove, inspiration, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member She Wept In Languished Moan
She wept as they buried her one true love.
Each day thereafter she brought him a rose,
the flower she knew he was fondest of.
Her grief unbearable,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dove, bereavement,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Dusk
Melting sorrows drift toward tomorrow
when sounds dance in hushed irrelevance.
Sacred seconds are held in creation's tawny yolk
as crystal waves of wind bid farewell to this...

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Categories: dove, sunset,
Form: Free verse
As We See Them Fly
I hear the howling at the moon
           as nightbirds then begin to croon
The cricket’s dance...

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Categories: dove, earth, hope, loneliness, night,
Form: Couplet
Heritage
The ranch on which I hang my hat, though short on most the frills,
Is thirteen sections, give or take, of rugged trails an’ hills.
We call...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dove, adventure, cowboy-western, education, imagination,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Where the Wind Blows
I followed one day a spring breeze at play.
It seemed not to know where to go.
And aimlessly, I - like a butterfly -
meandered with it...

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Categories: dove, wind,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs