Is a room a room if it has no door?
Do many windows make it less, or more?
We’ve rooms for cooking, dining, sleeping—
unkempt or well kept, rooms are meant for keeping
something in or something out—
What is your room all about?
Lift those windows, throw the doors wide
better yet, just get outside.
Venture beyond walls, an open expansion
get out, go on, explore your many mansions.
It’s still Tuesday Poetics over at the D’Verse Pub for poets, and Laura Bloomsbury still says, “For today’s poetry prompt I’m asking us to conjure a room or rooms in the literal, functional, metaphorical, imaginary, and/or fantastical sense.”
This is my second take on the prompt, as I was really taken by the prompt. P.S., I am writing in my favorite room, the one the birds and other little critters so generously share with me.
This was wonderful!
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Thanks!
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It’s good to have it and not ever to be a slave to it. It’s best seen from several points of view
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True — our houses grow larger and larger with a plethora of rooms! Perhaps we have too many choices, and when we might have been living, we’ve busy making choices!
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We need to reconsider our living rooms.
Thanks for coming by!
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Very well done and thought provoking. Not often do I think about what makes a room or way doesn’t. It does seem an important question though in these times our rooms matter more than ever.
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Thank you. Yes, I worry about those not able to get outside much.
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There are many mansions beyond our walls.
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Yep.
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Yea, I can get with this, and repetition always works well 🙂
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I’m glad if this works and always glad to have you by. Thank you.
(I feel like this is a repeat…)
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ah you made it! we are struggling to get outside at the moment so rooms are especially pertinent – I really liked the opening questions of your poem and this conundrum line
“Do many windows make it less, or more?”
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I cannot imagine how difficult staying at home must be if home is an apartment in a city. I am fortunate to have had plenty of outside easily accessible to me throughout.
Thank you for your comments. Could probably go off in another direction with windows as walls, barriers with two sides, viewed and viewing. Hmmm…
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Your favourite writing room sounds delightful. No wonder you produce so many inspirational pieces.
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I love the outdoors… and I could probably cope in something very small if I just had a door.
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Yes. Your comment reminds me of this, not sure where I found it, the poet’s name is Kikaku:
There goes a beggar, naked
Except for his robes
Of Heaven and Earth
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Nice blog!
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Thank you!
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LOVE the positive attitude in this post! Most especially that there are “mansions” outside if we just open the doors to find them…in the positive sense!
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Thank you. Glad you liked it. Here, let me hold the door for you.
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