Lonely Dove Poems

Smiling in the street while it thunders,

today is the day I let my mind go,

I turn my cap inside out,

climb up the trees to look...

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Alone at twilight on a bench
I heard a stirring up above
And looked to see, upon a branch
Were perched a pair of mourning doves

How I wish...

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It's been a while I handled my humble muse like this.

Here is a duet between  Mfoniso Ubaha and Wems Henry Temmy

MU
I am fine. 
You...

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Dove, dove, little dove,
What do you see in me -
A smiling man who seeks out birds
For his society?

Dove, dove, hungry dove,
What do you see today?
Old...

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Windy sunny funny days in hurry
In my home I dine and slept in merry
One day from blue landed on my terrace
Lonely dove came ill and...

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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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 I've been down 
This road before
Far too many times
With a tiny frown, 
But what for?
I've been alone 
For many years 
Far too many times,...

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Midnight stars shine as you enter the gloomy room
Darkness dims away and there's hardly any gloom 
I simply smile and nod and say nothing much...

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Poetry known as the language of love
Speaks of your beauty, as white as a dove
Your wings spread out wide as you blaze through the sky
The...

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a hush shivers my spine,
it reeks havoc and I no longer speak-
I traveled back in time,
the only thing I find 
is the tapping of soft...

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Dove of Spring

My eyes behold one lonely white spring flow’r.
My heart does jump with joy. My eyes do glory.
My eyes do squeeze its verdant stem...

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I heard the sad song of a lonely dove
My heart grew heavy as she softly cried
Her lover gone no longer by her side
She coos a...

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This Christmas I have something
That’s magical for you and me
I so want to share it with you
So open this box and you will see.

There’s two...

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I set at waters edge early in the morning,
I smell the grass, the dew, the begining of a day,
Thoughts of times gone by,
All those years...

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Modest woman moderate woman
Your inner beauty strikes me
Like the tongue of noble eloquence
More than gold even refined gold
Or our purged fulgent silver.

Black woman proud woman
Your...

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