Best Swinging Door Poems

I answered with love,
you questioned
with anger and pain

I then held you close,
but your eyes
failed me again

I told you truly,
as our wishes
dropped to the floor

Then you...

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It's night now in harlem, time to explore
Snakes are diurnal, rats love their nocturnal
Life, the subway is a swinging door.
A cockroach crawls before it falls
Catalectic...

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“The Lost Daughter”



Thursday walked through the doors on a Tuesday
She sat in the Waiting Room, 
the place smelled too sterile, 
Antiseptic wash, 
rank clean with...

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"Who Put Luebella down the Wych Elm?"

There are rumours
about me, some 
come seeking me
with their geiger counters
and ouji boards
with their heart 
shaped planchettes

unanswered questions
in the...

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NOTE TO THE READER
Once Apun a Time

This yarn is a flossy fabric woven of several earlier warped works, lightly laced together, adorned with fur-ther braided...

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There comes a time 
in the life of us all 
when we're no longer hindered 
and appreciate the small
Like birds of childhood to recall

When papa...

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The mind is like a swinging door,
Opening and closing all the time.
It remembers everything good and bad.
Intrusions take over the mind if aloud.
But even though...

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Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 45

Sound the gongs Blow the trumpets Let pigeons soar
The most well-kept secret’s about to be sawn
At last Great...

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As the door to my prison cell slammed shut.
   It was then I realized just how deeply my life had sunk into this...

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I’m painfully aware as I regress down memory lane
That scene’s of my childhood slowly begin to wane
As I strive to recall them from the labyrinth...

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i put a door on my aquarium
so the fish could come and go as they please
although the idea might be scaring them
it's not like i...

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In our Family, we have seven kids, 
Well, that's how many I thought we did. 
But whenever I do a count. 
I never get to...

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It was what it was …
The fantastic idea, 
The thoughts of carefree and joy.
A few small steps is all it would take, 
And we’d be...

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Across from the ancient building,
Overview of the roadside park,
Modern day mega-mall,
Chocolate delight.
All one can eat.
Competition stands mighty & real against the retail shop of day...

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When people try to phone
I click them all away
today
Prefer to be alone

You see I’ve not a choice
I can not take the call
At all
Because I have...

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