Writing Prompt
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POEM STARTER
Submitted by Maranda Quinn
Write a poem which includes the motif of doors.
Whether open or closed, doors can be used to represent many different things.
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Any open door may lead to a love, a disaster, or fantastic exploration.
A closed door may lead to a conflict, security, loneliness, boredom, or
protection.
A locked door may lead to change, defeat, destiny, opportunity, or
resignation.
A broken door may lead to strength, perseverance, an achievement, or
determination.
A door with a window may show a peek into the future, the dark, or
contempla...
Someday a door may close,
I mean, angrily slam in your face, close
Your nose will feel that itch, expectant of pain
Your body tensing,
Your eyes squinting shut,
Bracing.
Here the doors have no names,
The paths laid out before you have no way,
Sprawling this way, that-a-way, every which way,
The halls of eternity remain the same,
But once you move forward you can never return.
Endless slamming,...
When one door closes, another opens.
Yet I am trapped in these four walls.
For me, one has closed and has stayed so,
No escape from ceiling to floor.
Just me as it always has been.
If I close my eyes and think hard enough,
I imagine I have keys to a door
right in front of me.
I reach into my pocket pushing aside gum and other miscellaneous items,
and reach for the heavy brass key that I know fit...
My emotions are unhinged
Can’t even swing open
Because it isn’t attached
Attempting to lock them down
Does nothing from you
I desperately slam the door
but you stick your foot
through the crack
Just one twist of the knob
One knock on the wood
And I would let you in anyway
Even if I tried to shut you out
No matter what I do
You always have the key
I try to change it
but you know me too well
and ...
Hi
I wish I could come up to you
And give you a hug
Tell you everything is going to be ok
That you will make it through
I’m sorry that on your first year at a new school
You were treated like that
And how you left the year with more issues than before
I’m sorry how she was your first friend
And I’m sorry that I didn’t prevent it
I wish that I could tell you to skip the event for your school
And...
Open
Slow and creaking against the hum of day
Heavy in hand
Cold in the eye
Closed
Latch clasped
Shutters drawn
Barricading light
Open
Glass pane shattered
Flecks strewn about
In explosive array
Closed
Vibrant hues a wall
Killing vision
And welcome
Open
Beconing and warm
Laiden with traps
And tumult
Closed
No longer wanting
No longer caring
No longer home.
Open
Unfilled
A...
At the very beginning
We all walk through a door
As we grow older
We are introduced to many different types
Doors of opportunity
Doors of sadness
Doors of lessons
Doors of regret
But the most important door of them all
That we all walk through
Is the door of you
Mending all of those other doors together
Walking through that final door and
Becoming who the world wanted you to become....
Gates of life, no one considers
What entails behind that frame
Do enter one door, you close another
New chapters of fresh wood and new paint
What doors have you closed?
Years of being alone?
Failed dreams and harsh realities?
What did it feel like to leave home?
Doors can be a trouble as well
Close that door that won’t let you forgive
Let go and walk away from your past
Learn to love over hatred...
A door is an object that separates
Here from there
Now from later
Seen from unseen
Do you go through? Are things better
There?
Later?
Unseen?
I see the strip of light
Underneath it
And I hear the voices, activity
Through it
I feel the vibrations
In it
What’s on the other side?
A door opened can never be closed again
Not really...
Doors.
That’s a funny word.
Knock knock.
Who’s there?
A challenge.
Because when it says pull, it’s not an instruction, you push. Stick it to the man. Don’t allow conformity to be the death of us.
An opponent.
Because you well know you don’t let it hit you on the way out. Show it who’s boss. And hopefully, that’s you. If not, I can’t help you much there.
A mysterious curiosity
Because al...