Best Dowry Poems
Below are the all-time best Dowry poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dowry poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Dowry Of Dreams
Dreams are approaching my Love
following the stars to your heart,
beside your body I breathe and gaurd your lips
the sentinel of your stellar song, the...
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Categories:
dowry, angel, beauty, devotion, heart,
Form:
Epic
Stop DowryMarriages are made in heaven,
but dowry has made it a business transaction,
Tears roll down from my eyes,
When i think about the burning brides,
Stop dowry,stop dowry......
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Categories:
dowry, marriage, sad, woman,
Form:
Rhyme
Dowry Banebedecked golden bride
golden goose for gruntled groom
golden noose or life
~25 Jun 2016~
A commentary on the odious practice of demanding dowry from the bride's side...
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Categories:
dowry, abuse, culture,
Form:
Senryu
Woman in Chains
Woman in Chains
(What Man Would Abide It?)
Women throughout centuries – the softer sex.
I picture them subservient since what feels like time primordial!
What man would abide
being...
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Categories:
dowry, freedom,
Form:
Free verse
Black SailsA prolific singer, you mimic songs of Blue Jays -
...
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Categories:
dowry, anger, imagery, love hurts,
Form:
Verse
HOME SOILvivacious roses pose
in air
oxygen free from the stem
arising like balloons
resurrection of rosies
blushing brides at peak
before their spoiling
before their mistreat
their passionate gowns sweet
wormy stems
await greening apples
Eden’s...
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Categories:
dowry, marriage,
Form:
Ekphrasis
runaway brideAt twelve years old
She sits in the cold
Engulfed by the dark
Sitting on an old tree trunk
By the edge of the silent river
From far she can...
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Categories:
dowry, child, culture,
Form:
Free verse
SheShe wailed her way into the world...
An avatar they said, Goddess Lakshmi had taken birth...
Her parents' pride, her brother's delight...
She loved and shone her brightest...
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Categories:
dowry, woman, women,
Form:
Free verse
Unmoored - God Knows Where I AmHow chafed the foot bereft of sole,
when unshod thoughts meet splintered floor.
Known terra firma drifts from whole,
as reason loses sight of shore.
I’ll wander where...
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Categories:
dowry, mental illness,
Form:
Rhyme
CoupThis country United
one can clearly see
only blind hide in truth
Illegally a government seizes power
against the vote with a clear strike
Overthrowing...
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Categories:
dowry, anger, betrayal, conflict, earth,
Form:
Ode
AliveIs your soul blood red
A dowry of bitter wine
Spilling mortality
Staining the divine
Is eternity a prison
The rusty knife of time
Carving your senses
Caging your mind
Is flesh a...
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Categories:
dowry, death, faith, introspection, life,
Form:
Quatrain
You belong to YOUWhat have you done to us my child?
I tore my body to bring you here
He wetted his shirt with sweat to ink your books
23 years...
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Categories:
dowry, courage,
Form:
Free verse
UNITY IN CULTURAL DIVERSITYThe westerners eat Amala and Ewedu
We eat Akpo and Ofe Nsala
They dance Juju and Apala
We dance bongo and atilogwu the beat of life.
T^he Northerners speaks...
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Categories:
dowry, art, beautiful, , western,
Form:
Free verse
My Monster-In-Law To be
I have a monster-in-law to be
She’s my boyfriend’s mommy
She forced her son to join the military
‘Til his gait was...
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Categories:
dowry, funny,
Form:
Monorhyme
True Love
Her hair as red as a flame
Her lips were colored the same
… That Irish Lass
… So full of sass
He’s wonderin’ if she’d take his name?
Her...
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Categories:
dowry, funny, funny love, humor,
Form:
Limerick
the pirates life for meyo ho yo ho into the horizon i go
the wind at my back the wood under my feet
a treasure awaits calling my...
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Categories:
dowry, boat,
Form:
Free verse
The Journey Of MarriageThe Journey Of Marriage
Grand party, grand clothes, grand decor and grand style!
Well-wishers and greetings cheering the dulled hearts
Silver jubilee's are celebrated by partners with...
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Categories:
dowry, anniversary, celebration, marriage,
Form:
Light Verse
I treasure you baby girlMy dear don't worry,
You are my fairy!
I don't ask your daddy dowry,
Let me shower our way with cherry.
Hold my hand , Accept me before I...
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Categories:
dowry, for her, love,
Form:
Verse
WINGS OF POWERIs this world made only for males?
Even History talks about 'His' Story only,
But I am the creator,
The creator should rule her creations,
I am the Master...
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Categories:
dowry, women, , memorial,
Form:
Free verse
I sit aloneI sit alone and watch an enchanting sunset complete its day,
I want you to sit by my side until we become old and grey.
I relax...
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Categories:
dowry, poetry,
Form:
Ballade
Oh mum don't kill meoh mum, don't kill me if you can't afford dowry.
oh mum,don't kill me if you want a boy to birth,
oh mum, throw me alive to...
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Categories:
dowry, allah, dad, daughter, faith,
Form:
Sonnet
The PicnicThe little pygmy named Pixie Poggly was quirky queenly quaintly and quickly, but rarely ever really did much can't you see.
Until one day, a raunchy...
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Categories:
dowry, adventure, celebration, confusion, fantasy,
Form:
Alliteration
Once I was a Prince - Part Three Part Three
...
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Categories:
dowry, family, me, water, may,
Form:
Free verse
BACK AT ONE
While granules from past season’s flakes
thaw the impatience of my own caprice
amidst the restlessness of mid-winter,
clay gathers new fragrance of tangy moss.
Back at one, infant...
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Categories:
dowry, introspection, january,
Form:
Free verse
She's not for burningShe’s not for burning
Remnant of dried out pistils
If burnt
May fill nooks and corners
With their inimitable fragrance
But that doesn’t look aesthetic
Rather disparaging towards
Fascinating gift of nature;
History...
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Categories:
dowry, anxiety, culture, destiny, evil,
Form:
Blank verse