My room has two doors
three locks and just one key
mislaid, lost. Or maybe just hidden
somewhere safe, forgotten.
You think I'm imprisoned?
Not so - on all four sides
windows open wide, I keep them
shut and shuttered
"My room has two doors
and one window.
One door is red and the other is gray.
I cannot open the red door;
the gray door does not interest me.
Having no choice,
I shall lock them both
and look out of the window"
Kay Sage - The Window
For Grace’s Open Link Night optional prompt she gave us Kay Sage’s surreal artwork entitled ‘My room has two doors’. I wrote this short pithy poem to that. Only afterwards, researching more of Kay Sage, I discovered the poem on the right, digitized from her 1957 poetry book “the more I wonder“. I was amazed at how much the two poems mirror each other including line length
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