Short Doorman Poems

Golden epaulets smile
A hint of vermouth
Through an opened door...

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Death's doorman-destroyed
Hell's domain..alloyed
Book of Life..op'ed wide..
Is your name inside?

Mark 1:15  is all thats required to be therein...

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Wear a tie, tip your hat,
shine your shoe, don a spat.
That's the proper way to do;
adopt a cultured world view.



Arbitrium Divisa 4
9/20/19
Gregory R Barden aka "The Bard"
From: Honor The Gracious Doorman...

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Winter on Astor Street
 
                  The Gold Coast, Chicago
 
Beneath the canopy,
a doorman holds
a cast-iron door that lets
 
an ancient duchess issue.
Swathed in a silver gown
she tugs her sable cape
 
tight around a tumor
that nice young doctor 
will announce tomorrow.
 
 
Donal Mahoney...

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Death is less grave reaper
Than stone-faced gate keeper;
A dark doorman who waits
At eternity’s gates
Opening one to Light;
One to dark, fiery night. 

He will surely show you
The exit to pass through!
As Death’s last oversight
He shuts the gate to Light;
Then Death will cringe in fright 
Doomed to dark, fiery night....

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Those gleaming brass buttons
   match the shine on his shoes
the theatrical articulation of his
   "Morning, ma'am. What's new?"

He opens the double doors wide
   bows with an arm-sweeping glide 
while the tight smile etched on his face
   begs you take him (in confidence) aside...

What secrets lie buried deep in his heart
   secrets that from his lips never will part...

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I’ll never get used to alarms
Though homeowners see all their charms.
It’s too easy to make
Just one tiny mistake
Which can cause some to be up in arms.

To disarm one you need fob or code
Or you’ll wake an entire abode
For the noise it emits
Blows one’s eardrums to bits
And those woken from sleep may explode.

In the city, alarm use is rare
And it isn’t that people don’t care
But a doorman and lock
Chase the thieves from the block
To the suburbs – alarmers beware!...

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