Long Dori Poems

"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 over...

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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
I (never never...

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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.
Though you’re not...

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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. Hurray!

We weren’t allowed to pick...

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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 so great.
My son, his...

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To buy a star, I wouldn’t buy just one,
For one all by itself cannot be fun.
I’d buy a group, and five to be precise
because two, three or four would not suffice.

It’s five I want, and...

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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 pretty Melanie would sing along.
The...

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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 jaise bahaaroon.
Tu sawal banke mujhe karna rubaru
Main...

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My heart beats slow.
Waiting and wondering if love will grow.

On a long road that starts with a meeting by chance,
Intertwining lives, together in our dance.

Your path and mine slowly mingles into one,
Together in time till...

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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 of love from a man’s lips it’s...

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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; compatible...

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In the depth of the darkness
In the recesses of my soul
As I work and I wonder and I go to and fro
I think and I wake and I wonder and I know

That life where I...

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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 ko gburo obolo
Onidiri ko ya...

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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 
Kachdey ka...

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Every day of the week
it's the same old story.
I can't even take a bath
without Nemo and Dori.

I have to share the tub 
with Bruce and Crush.
I jump in and jump out;
It's always rush, rush, rush!

If...

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