Best Mourning Dove Poems

One Mourning Dove

At my kitchen table
On a cold and sunny day,
A gray dove spied and stared at me,
He took my mind away.

So still he sat outside my window,
Puffed fat against the cold,
Once I think I heard him mourn,
So still we stayed, he bold.

He ate my...

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The mourning dove visits daily, comes for her noontime meal. This sweet-faced bird also has the sweetest song, a haunting melody. But what is most endearing is her politesse, her courtesy, her hanging back, while others eat ahead. She doesn't "push or shove," nor does...

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the mourning dove coos
               a sad melody outside
               calming in life's grief

Heidi Sands

6/12/18...

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THE MOURNING DOVE

The car hit the dove. The driver knew it, but he kept driving, without even slowing down.
It was a case of hit and run accident. The dove lay on the side of the road lifeless. His mate came to check him out. She...

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She sits above the rolling waves,
Her golden waves capture the sun,
The sunlight beckons wistful slaves, 
Enslaved their hearts are led to dun.

For her beauty entraps the soul,
The soulful songs she sings at sea
As eyes see her beauty cajole,
So cajoled they can ne’er be free.

And I,...

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My mourning dove coo's 
and I soar 
encircling every wave 
every echo held peace 
in search of her call 

My eyes struggle to vent 
steam reaching her peak 
and I'm ready to scream 
as my thoughts embrace 
her wings setting us free 

Come to me...

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Mourning dove perched with your black and white collar.
Black eyes, ebony, slender beak accent your dull grey sheen on downey feathers.
Dressed perfectly by the creator for summer's heat or winter's blustery chill.

Reminding me of your love and protection promised a long time ago.  Keep...

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Vicious and mean those two stray dogs
if not for my fence the female grey would 
have quickly killed my two old dogs. She angrily bark
and looked as if she would lunge through the chain link fence.
I yelled at her in a booming voice with authority....

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Mourning Dove


Mourning Dove
Eyes to the skies above 
Head bowed down
In sorrow she will drown

No pain a mama should bare
For her dead young bring dispair

Other chicks stay warm in nest
As tired mama rest
One did not survive
Saw the world and died 

Papa crafted nest with stick and...

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As the light of day breaks
upon the dew coated grass
the only thing moving
are the eyes of a graceful mourning dove
foraging for seeds
as its wings flutter before the dawn
to welcome the sun's warmth
with its soft coos of lament
that drift on the breeze
to ears awakening from a...

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A milky-eyed mourning dove
Sat upon a tombstone - tacit -
Inside the grounds of St. Francis
To admire a cache betroved.

A sentinel's duty - it bears -
Not broken by a morning beam -
Even the shuffle of the wind
Could not disturb the atmosphere.

The dove - it eyed me...

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safe inside my dream
moonbeams quiver
way mourning doves mourn



posted on June 6, 2018...

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Still mourning dove nests,

safety for tenuous eggs.

Calm dove births her spawn....

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October evening, gold and gray
Storm clouds gather up above
Winds will whisper, trees will sway
With barn owls and with mourning doves

October evening, gray and gold
Soon the lantern shall be lit
And hoards of specters, young and old
Like moths, will all be drawn to it....

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It was the first time
I heard the dove’s low call—
three minor notes 
stretched thin across
a motionless prairie 
on a shimmering hot afternoon,
the kind where even shadows
try not to move.

I felt like I should be
in mourning too—
but for what, I didn’t know
or had forgotten.
Black Cats and...

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