Nazm
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Tu nazm banke sang chalna
Main shabd banke tujhme utaroon.
Shabdon ki dori banke tu, jehan mein utarna
Main bol banke tujhme samaoon.
Nazm jaise rag rag mein bas jaoon
Geet banke saavan jais...
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Categories:
dori, life, love,
Form: Nazm
Akogun Eda
...Akogun Eda
E ba mi wa eda
Eda adapa lo soja
Eda to lori meji
Eda abaya ganga
E gbe kini yi wa
Emi lokan
Egbeje kole daa duro
Egbeegberun ko to bee pelu
Emi lokunrin meta soso
Afefe k...
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Categories:
dori, care,
Form: Free verse
When I Walk Through the Fire
...When I walk through the fire
The situation dire
Stuck in mud and mire
Being accused by the liar
Jesus you are with me
You are the strength within me
you walk beside me
I never walk alone x2...
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Categories:
dori, encouraging, endurance, hope, jesus,
Form: I do not know?
Momma's Goodbye
..."Mama" is usually
the first word we learn to say
the love and bond that is formed
long before our first day
Moms teach us how to speak,
and to do what wrong or right
they lovingly watch ove...
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Categories:
dori, mom,
Form: Rhyme
Bilu Mori
...Time sada chukay bilu Mori
Gal vich eday kali dori
Time sada chukay bilu Mori
Shayer babu ay munda lahori
Time sada chukay bilu Mori
Baanh vich kara chapal peshori
Time sada chukay bilu Mori
A...
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Categories:
dori, betrayal, evil, horror, hurt,
Form: Couplet
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 years ago.
My daughter and her family s...
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Categories:
dori, memory, people,
Form: List
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 Jennifer is nurturing and compassionate.
She was born after me; ...
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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 ehsas
Kagaj mai chipa hai
Waqut ki phehchan
Kac...
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Categories:
dori, blue, butterfly, care, imagination,
Form: Ghazal
Categories:
dori, adventure, cute love, first
Form: Senryu
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 high soprano Jennifer would sing
as pr...
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Categories:
dori, sister,
Form: Sonnet
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 that photo you took of me at college.
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Categories:
dori, brother,
Form: Free verse
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 Henry’s fries and burgers home. Hur...
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Categories:
dori, family, nostalgia, food,
Form: Quatrain
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 same
Unharvested love
So you wonder why they c...
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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 will last,
Far past what I...
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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 whatever it’s worth.
Promises ...
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Categories:
dori, lovelove,
Form: Couplet
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