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The term "back door" has been searched for 103 times on the American Poems site since November 16th, 2004.
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1. Prospective Immigrants Please Note - written by Adrienne Rich
Read 10386 times on American Poems.
Either you will
go through this door
or you will not go through.
If you go through
there is always the risk
of remembering your name.
Things look at you doubly
and you must look back
and let them happen.
If you do not go through
it... (Read full poem)
2. The Lockless Door - written by Robert Frost
From New Hampshire.
Published in 1923.
Read 17413 times on American Poems.
It went many years,
But at last came a knock,
And I though of the door
With no lock to lock.
I blew out the light,
I tip-toed the floor,
And raised both hands
In prayer to the door.
But the knock came again.
My window was wide;
I... (Read full poem)
3. I Years had been from Home - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 3163 times on American Poems.
I Years had been from Home
And now before the Door
I dared not enter, lest a Face
I never saw before
Stare solid into mine
And ask my Business there --
"My Business but a Life I left
Was such remaining there?"
I leaned upon the Awe --
I lingered... (Read full poem)
4. A Rhyme of Death's Inn - written by Lizette Woodworth Reese
Read 2049 times on American Poems.
A rhyme of good Death's inn!
My love came to that door;
And she had need of many things,
The way had been so sore.
My love she lifted up her head,
"And is there room?" said she;
"There was no room in Bethlehem's inn
For... (Read full poem)
5. The House - written by Philip Levine
Read 651 times on American Poems.
This poem has a door, a locked door,
and curtains drawn against the day,
but at night the lights come on, one
in each room, and the neighbors swear
they hear music and the sound of dancing.
These days the neighbors will swear
to anything, but... (Read full poem)
6. A Knock On The Door - written by James Tate
Read 9141 times on American Poems.
They ask me if I've ever thought about the end of
the world, and I say, "Come in, come in, let me
give you some lunch, for God's sake." After a few
bites it's the afterlife they want to talk about.
"Ouch," I say, "did you see that grape... (Read full poem)
7. I Remember - written by Anne Sexton
Read 8202 times on American Poems.
By the first of August
the invisible beetles began
to snore and the grass was
as tough as hemp and was
no color--no more than
the sand was a color and
we had worn our bare feet
bare since the twentieth
of June and there were times
we forgot to wind... (Read full poem)
8. Tom Merritt - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 494 times on American Poems.
At first I suspected something --
She acted so calm and absent-minded.
And one day I heard the back door shut,
As I entered the front, and I saw him slink
Back of the smokehouse into the lot,
And run across the field.
And I meant to kill him... (Read full poem)
9. At The Door - written by David Wagoner
Read 730 times on American Poems.
All actors look for them-the defining moments
When what a character does is what he is.
The script may say, He goes to the door
And exits or She goes out the door stage left.
But you see your fingers touching the doorknob,
Closing around it,... (Read full poem)
10. I Go Back To The House For A Book - written by Billy Collins
Read 2610 times on American Poems.
I turn around on the gravel
and go back to the house for a book,
something to read at the doctor's office,
and while I am inside, running the finger
of inquisition along a shelf,
another me that did not bother
to go back to the house for a... (Read full poem)
11. To A Ten-Months' Child - written by Donald Justice
Read 2815 times on American Poems.
Late arrival, no
One would think of blaming you
For hesitating so.
Who, setting his hand to knock
At a door so strange as this one,
Might not draw back?(Read full poem)
12. Back Yard - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1916.
Read 2820 times on American Poems.
Shine on, O moon of summer.
Shine to the leaves of grass, catalpa and oak,
All silver under your rain to-night.
An Italian boy is sending songs to you to-night from an
accordion.
A Polish boy is out with his best girl; they marry next... (Read full poem)
13. The Wrong Way Home - written by James Tate
From Worshipful Company of Fletchers.
Read 3241 times on American Poems.
All night a door floated down the river.
It tried to remember little incidents of pleasure
from its former life, like the time the lovers
leaned against it kissing for hours
and whispering those famous words.
Later, there were harsh words and a... (Read full poem)
14. A Door just opened on a street -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2373 times on American Poems.
A Door just opened on a street --
I -- lost -- was passing by --
An instant's Width of Warmth disclosed --
And Wealth -- and Company.
The Door as instant shut -- And I --
I -- lost -- was passing by --
Lost doubly -- but by contrast -- most... (Read full poem)
15. A Wicker Basket - written by Robert Creeley
Read 1847 times on American Poems.
Comes the time when it's later
and onto your table the headwaiter
puts the bill, and very soon after
rings out the sound of lively laughter--
Picking up change, hands like a walrus,
and a face like a barndoor's,
and a head without any apparent... (Read full poem)
16. Eat Your Heart Out - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 4087 times on American Poems.
I've come by, she says, to tell you
that this is it. I'm not kidding, it's
over. this is it.
I sit on the couch watching her arrange
her long red hair before my bedroom
mirror.
she pulls her hair up and
piles it on top of her head-
she lets her eyes... (Read full poem)
17. A Negro Love Song - written by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Read 3172 times on American Poems.
Seen my lady home las' night,
Jump back, honey, jump back.
Hel' huh han' an' sque'z it tight,
Jump back, honey, jump back.
Hyeahd huh sigh a little sigh,
Seen a light gleam f'om huh eye,
An' a smile go flittin' by --
Jump back,... (Read full poem)
19. Before Sleep - written by Catherine Anderson
Read 2866 times on American Poems.
I was in love with anatomy
the symmetry of my body
poised for flight,
the heights it would take
over parents, lovers, a keen
riding over truth and detail.
I thought growing up would be
this rising from everything
old and earthly,
not these... (Read full poem)
20. Love came back at Fall o' Dew - written by Lizette Woodworth Reese
Read 1022 times on American Poems.
Love came back at fall o' dew,
Playing his old part;
But I had a word or two
That would break his heart.
"He who comes at candlelight,
That should come before,
Must betake him to the night
From a barred door."
This the word that made... (Read full poem)
21. Marina - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 2301 times on American Poems.
majestic, majic
infinite
my little girl is
sun
on the carpet-
out the door
picking a flower, ha!
an old man,
battle-wrecked,
emerges from his
chair
and she looks at me
but only sees
love,
ha!, and I become
quick with the world
and love right... (Read full poem)
22. Gods - written by Anne Sexton
Read 3944 times on American Poems.
Ms. Sexton went out looking for the gods.
She began looking in the sky
—expecting a large white angel with a blue crotch.
No one.
She looked next in all the learned books
and the print spat back at her.
No one
She made a pilgrimage to the... (Read full poem)
23. Call Me - written by Frank O\'Hara
Read 3028 times on American Poems.
The eager note on my door said "Call me,"
call when you get in!" so I quickly threw
a few tangerines into my overnight bag,
straightened my eyelids and shoulders, and
headed straight for the door. It was autumn
by the time I got around the corner,... (Read full poem)
24. Hanging Fire - written by Audre Lorde
Read 11836 times on American Poems.
I am fourteen
and my skin has betrayed me
the boy I cannot live without
still sucks his tumb
in secret
how come my knees are
always so ashy
what if I die
before the morning comes
and momma's in the bedroom
with the door closed.
I have to learn... (Read full poem)
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