Best Closed Poems

Nobody knows what goes on behind this hotel door
‘Mr Smith’ isn’t with his wife of that I’m pretty sure!
He’s with his mistress Sue, they are having an affair
But he is a cheating love rat and he doesn’t really care

A barrage of fists is flying at...

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I can put things together
Sometimes I'm on what you wear
Sometimes on things
Sometimes I get stuck and you get mad at me
Its not often for me to break 
I'm made out of metal










I'm a zipper...

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"My closed eyes shall forever see, the happiness you brought to me”

My sadness wears a smile
when my eyes are closed,
keeping me from seeing
what waits outside
on that lonely pathway
leading through the life
we always talked about sharing

Our song plays in my mind
and I hear it calling 
in...

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In my closed space
I am free to shrug off that which I wear
To hide my true self;
A being which does not belong to this earth
But which seeks to find the anchorage
Of there where I come from!

In my closed space,
I am free to be mad, to...

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Closed doors 
Especially if they are bolted shut

Why refuse to move on?
Why do you keep knocking at that particular door?

As if your very next breath depended 
On someone answering
On someone opening 

It is closed for a reason 
Maybe your destiny is not behind that door 

Stop knocking 
Stop forcing your way in 
Change...

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the door has been closed
it has been bolted and locked
don't try the window

my heart is secure
your words are no longer "keys"
soul sanctuary

image is tarnished
no longer will I welcome
a fallen hero

Eileen Manassian...

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Once sheltered from the
     Beaming rays of dawn,
Closed eyelids view the
     Multi-colored hues.
First seen, bright aqua
     Blended with chartreuse,
Then divine peach which
     Crimson fades into.
A green like no earthly
...

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Today I sat and pondered and closed my eyes to see 
On a sunny island I strolled, knowing what's ahead for me

Closer to the beach hut I could hear our favourite song
Through the louvred doors I go, as I catch a scent so beautifully strong

It's...

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Her wedding day was beautiful, when she wed her beau,
Innocent and trusting, so little did she know
About the man who had stolen away her tender heart
And now wed to him she was, 'til death do they part.

The best wife she could be was her innermost...

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"Outside Closed Circles"



Tall limbed stories
are stilts
to walk softly 
aloft the shallows
casting shadows 
bruised in purple

a double degree 
in stray fellows

luxury is the 
comfort calling
in front of all the Lost
pressed between pages 
keeping safe between lines
transparent cowards

blooming now
between pages

kisses soft and velvet
like moist dew drops
on forgotten...

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I sit alone in the forest among the grass and moss one day
I hoped to grasp fulfillment  in my heart and alone pray
I shut my eyes to see my surrounding about me
I felt suddenly so cheerful and free
The sun beams leaped and danced upon...

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When you were way too young 
How the hell were you to know
Their secrets and sins would hurt your world
No chance for you to grow
Only tears for you to show
Your Behind Closed Doors......

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 Homeless, destitute with nothing more then a backpack and cigarettes 
down the rabbit hole she went, no linen tablecloths just stricken wood,  
in a house of ill repute;.
She could not refuse the hunkering of a horny man who lived by threats 
so she...

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Clam on me had closed her two arms
Captivating me and my many charms
Then the next thing that I did know
Drug me under and never let go.

Bone by bone they went asleep
I did end up in the ocean deep
When people down have went
What they see now...

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I rather
be blind

Than live in this 
world with eyes

That refuse
to see

© Harry J Horsman 2019...

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