Thursday Doors 25/5/23: Morocco, Oman, and my last door poem

In today’s post there is not a single photo taken by me. All are door gifts from two witch friends of my mother and I appreciate them very much. I did wrote the poem though.

Let’s start with the third poem for Dan’s Third Annual Thursday Doors Writing Challenge, after two poems in my previous two Thursday posts. Whose door did I choose for my last poem? (Or better, whose door chose me?)

It’s Brenda’s photo from Catania in Sicily as posted on her blog Thoughts of a Wanderer.

Up

Move up in life, they say.
Follow your dreams, fly.
You want to see above the rest, you want to
stomp on others and have
no one stomp on you.

So what if you end up
burning all bridges, 
levels, floors, with no fire exit even,
white out all doors before
you do it once more?

I don’t want to move up,
leaving plants behind,  
just so that I land up in hot orange hell 
with one ghost window and
well conditioned air!

This poetry form is another brand new for me: Double Ennead. Its syllable count is 6-5-11-6-5 per line in each of its three stanzas, totalling exactly 99 syllables.

If you like it and wish to try it, there is still a week left to submit your own for Around the Campfire Journal. This sounded so lovely that I submitted a (different) Double Ennead, plus two 99-word BOTS to it as well. If you don’t know (like I didn’t), BOTS stands for “based on true story”, just how I like them the most.

And now to doors. This week’s gallery starts in Rabat, Morocco with the doors taken by Ditka, one mother’s witch friend, and continues in Oman with photos taken by Katja, another mother’s witch friend. They call each other so themselves, most happily. They recently returned from Belgrade together and in my Thursday Doors post from two weeks ago I included a photo of them on Marshall Tito’s grave.

Just looking at these I can hear my camera whistle. What fun we would have in Morocco and Oman! And there is one bonus door from Sri Lanka because why not. Welcome!

First, eight doors from two streets in Rabat, Morocco, by Ditka.

Extra Ditka’s door from Temple of the Tooth, Kandy, Sri Lanka.

Now Katja takes over with her Oman doors. A courtyard entrance in Sur.

A family home, Sur.

Another family home, Sur.

Door refurbishment workshop.

Entrance to Nizwa Souq.

Royal Opera House Muscat.

Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat.

Husn Al Heem fortress.

Al Hamra.

Thank you, Ditka and Katja, on behalf of all door lovers!

For Thursday Doors challenge hosted by Dan at No Facilities

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