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Dori Poems - Poems about Dori

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



Premium MemberGreat 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

Premium MemberFive 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

Hikkake-Dori

...very timid nymph                                                                                                                                            entwined black silky hair                  ...
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Categories: dori, adventure, cute love, first
Form: Senryu

Premium MemberThe 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

Premium MemberA 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

Premium MemberThursdays 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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