Comment from jb wade

Excellent

Garden gates. Fence gates. Prison gates. Palace gates. I like your story of the doors. Takes your mind to different places and faces. Interesting. I enjoyed it. Thanks for the read. nr

 Comment Written 29-Jul-2019

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reply by the author on 30-Jul-2019

Thanks so much for the excellent review and your interesting perspective on the poem. Glad it took you to all those interesting places behind the doors. Doors can take you to all kinds of places. estory

Comment from A. Willow Bends

Excellent

What a fantastic topic you have chosen! We go through millions in our lifetime. This is also highly metaphorical and I wonder how many we slam or maybe sneak through? Great job with this. Unique and interesting!
Love it!
Wendy

 Comment Written 29-Jul-2019

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reply by the author on 29-Jul-2019

Thanks so much for the excellent review and the encouraging comments. Glad you enjoyed it...it was fun to write. I like doing these fractured pieces assembling a fragmented view of one specific slice of our lives. There certainly are many doors to go through in it...estory

Comment from LisaMay

Excellent

I like your poems such as this... they lead the reader to imagine all sorts of stories about what's behind the door... physical things, but then also to imagine emotional things like opportunities, or secret activities, or decision-making. And everything depends on which side of the door we are on.

 Comment Written 28-Jul-2019

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reply by the author on 29-Jul-2019

Thanks so much for the excellent review and your encouraging comments supporting the poem. You got exactly what I was trying to convey here...doors are a big part of our lives. estory

Comment from Diana L Crawford

Excellent

Haha! This is very creative! There are so many ways we use the term door for and you covered a whole lot of them! I don't see any errors in spelling or grammar. Great job! xoxo

 Comment Written 27-Jul-2019

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reply by the author on 29-Jul-2019

Thanks so much for the excellent review and all the encouraging comments supporting the poem. Glad you enjoyed going through all those doors and looking behind them estory

reply by Diana L Crawford on 29-Jul-2019

very welcome! xoxo

Comment from Darlene BoClair

Excellent

That's a lot of doors. A lot of choices. A lot of guidance. A lot of in and outs. A lot of opportunities. A lot of visions. A lot of dreams. A lot of the past, present and future. A lot on your mind. A lot of fun. A lot of poetic imaginations from an well written poet. A poet that got us looking at doors in an all new way, for the doors we are grateful for.

 Comment Written 27-Jul-2019

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reply by the author on 29-Jul-2019

Thanks so much for the excellent review and for your support of the poem. Glad you enjoyed it...it was fun to write. You got exactly what I was trying to create in this poem; getting people to think of all those doors we gloss over during the day estory

Comment from Mystic Angel 7777

Excellent

I think you just about nailed them all. When reading this one gets the impression pretty much all we do day in and put is to enter and exit; well that and press SEND LOL. Well done and thank you ver much for sharing it.

 Comment Written 27-Jul-2019

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reply by the author on 29-Jul-2019

Thanks so much for the excellent review and for your wonderful support for this little piece. I'm glad I got so many people thinking about all those doors we go through in life, the choices we have to make, etc. estory

Comment from rama devi

Excellent

This is a good and unique poem. I like how the repetitious aspects sound like KNOCKING ON A DOOR! I wonder if that was intentional? The closing four lines pack a punch in meaning, elevating the AHA aspects. So the previous lines work like a crescendo more than a 'list'. Usually, I do not like list-like poems, but I love this one!

Bravo

Warmly, rd

 Comment Written 27-Jul-2019

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reply by the author on 29-Jul-2019

Thanks so much for the excellent review and for your interesting comments and perspective on the poem. I think listing has to be done carefully; there is a musical element to them, but you need to vary the way the lists are done to complicate the music. A true master of this was Seamus Heaney. Glad you enjoyed it...it was fun to write. estory

reply by rama devi on 29-Jul-2019

I consider you a master of musicality in words! :-))

Comment from Sandra du Plessis

Excellent

A very well-written free verse poem about doors which have many purposes. Sometimes we have to keep the bad outside and protect those inside.

 Comment Written 27-Jul-2019

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reply by the author on 29-Jul-2019

Thanks for the excellent review and all the wonderful comments supporting this poem. I hadn't thought of it in terms of good and evil, but sometimes readers surprise me with how the poem takes flight for them and becomes all kinds of different things to different people. estory

Comment from juliaSjames

Excellent

Certainly makes one think. Janus the Roman god must have inspired this write. It's different. Kinda see you chuckling as we earnest reviewers consider deeply and make admiring comments.

without doors
our open marriage
would shut down

Blessings Julia

 Comment Written 27-Jul-2019

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reply by the author on 29-Jul-2019

Thanks for the excellent review and for your comments and perspective on the poem. I am glad it got so many people thinking of all the doors they open close through the day, all the doors they look behind, the choices they have to make. estory

reply by juliaSjames on 29-Jul-2019

It did do that :-))
Julia

Comment from Gail Denham

Excellent

Whew you made me tired thinking of opening and shutting all those doors. And there are many - at the bank, the first door you encounter is so darn heavy - then there are the times doors are shut in our face.
Oh your poem brings much to mind.

 Comment Written 26-Jul-2019

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reply by the author on 29-Jul-2019

Thanks for the excellent review and all your wonderful comments supporting the poem. Going through all those doors can be tiresome I guess...I hadn't thought about that. estory