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Doves Poems - Poems about Doves

Premium Member when doves cry
it's usually early as day starts turning over when the air around is as heavy as seas in your chest feelings are intermixed between despair and hope like the sea when your odds are in a bottle, scribbled futilities tossed to the waves, exit on the backside of tides until they resurface with old whale stench one out of water tanning under a hard sun...

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Categories: doves, animal, death, family, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Doves Cry
“Dream if you can a courtyard An ocean of violets in bloom Animals strike curious poses They feel the heat The heat between me and you” Prince (Prince Roger Nelson) I am a die-hard fan of Prince and have been for many years His music has evoked my emotions from desire to tears I was in high school when his album “Purple...

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Categories: doves, appreciation, crush, fantasy, feelings,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Mourning Doves
seven mourning doves gather on the church steeple funeral below… a conversation ensues ending on a somber note...

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Categories: doves, funeral, sad,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member I Dreamt Of Doves
The guns silent, war ceased, doves flew free from child's hands, and the youth aged to elders. ~...

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Categories: doves, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Two Turtle Doves
love's roost ~ coos woo, snuggly gloves ~ doves...

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Categories: doves, animal, feelings, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member doves brought the dream catcher
Doves brought the dream catcher to the young boy The day he lost his parents His mother by murder His father by incarceration His grandmother, who was from the Crow nation understood the doves She was impressed that the Great Father had sent them The boy was only eight He did not appreciate the gift at the time As the boy grew he...

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Categories: doves, native american,
Form: Narrative
Two Doves of Red Lipstick
act i: walk down the strip, the neon lights casting a gaudy glow on the fray. i meet my dealer, a facilitator of welcome distraction, and we exchange nods. i take a bump, and the rush is immediate. the stripper, a sinuous seductress, beckons me over, and I'm drawn to her fire. we make out, our...

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Categories: doves, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member eight doves on a wire
eight doves on a wire together friends on bar stools...

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Categories: doves, bird, friendship, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Soiree of Doves
mystique of Winter-white wings - soiree of doves long string of pearls dangling over décolletage ample hat covers her eyes with doveyness intricate lace, feathers, flower, flowing, sensual, sensational ...

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Categories: doves, beauty, imagery,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member morning doves
they miss bird feeder last year they filled their bellies this year they weigh less...

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Categories: doves, bird, nature,
Form: Haiku
Ravens to Doves
Don't let anyone try to put you down or diminish your worth. Jealous and intimidated people always lash out at anyone who is deemed too powerful and unique. Keep shining your Light. No dimming it to allow Darkness to reign. We're here to change the World. We are the Light that is needed now more...

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Categories: doves, angel, encouraging, god, light,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member when doves fly
winged magician soar Ivory wings glistening bright two doves become one...

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Categories: doves, bird,
Form: Haiku
Two Doves
Two Doves Once upon a time, in a kingdom far away, lived two childhood sweethearts named Aiden and Adeline. Despite growing apart due to societal expectations and familial obligations, they couldn't shake the feelings that their hearts belonged together. As fare would have it, Destiny intervened, bringing them back together during the grand festival celebratting the...

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Categories: doves, angel, beach, bird, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Norea in the Garden of Birds
“Father of All, Hoopoe of the Shining Light Voice of Truth, singing above pits of night Light singing in heaven’s tree above the height Barbelo in the heights unthinkable Nous incorruptible, Word untouchable Forefather whose voice is unspeakable Father whose feathers are impenetrable” Norea the phoenix cried with tears in eyes Heaven’s birds heard and...

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Categories: doves, animal, beautiful, bird, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Two Doves: a 55 word story
A widower once had a spring visitor, a dove with no mate. It roosted in a tree near where the old man often sat. It cooed to him. One day the man's daughter looked for him, he was gone. She was startled by the sudden flight of two doves. The old man was never found....

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Categories: doves, fantasy,
Form: Prose

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