Behind the round Door by Paul Lenzi

I am honoured to feature a poem in response to the photo prompt… from Paul Lenzi of Poesy Plus Polemics

hobbit door

someone kind
someone gentle
whose dreams have no edges
whose skin bears no scars
no experience pained by
sharp corners of life
here lives someone who laughs
with big round belly sounds
sees the world with a settled
polite equanimity
wanting no special advantage
at peace with their
insular place in a circled society
feeling its comforting
sense of inclusion
of sharing
non-linear systems of
faith and philosophy
reverent with music of spheres

or perhaps the round door
simply leads down the
rabbit hole
granting uncertain asylum
to truly mad minds

Please visit Paul’s site to read more of his work, or see his books on Amazon.

Poet Paul F. Lenzi is the author of eleven full length volumes of poetry, and he writes a popular poetry blog that enjoys the acclaim of a large international following. He is a retired insurance company executive, born and raised in Newark, New Jersey of Italian immigrant parents. The author is a Rutgers University alumnus where he studied philosophy and political science.

Previously published poems by Mr. Lenzi have appeared in the anthology Great Poems of the Western World, in the Rutgers University literary journal and in the “New Hampshire Troubadour” literary magazine.

Mr. Lenzi is a proud member of the Academy of American Poets, the Poetry Society of America, and the Poetry Society of New Hampshire. He currently resides with his wife in rural New Hampshire.

About Sue Vincent

Sue Vincent was a Yorkshire born writer, esoteric teacher and a Director of The Silent Eye. She was immersed in the Mysteries all her life. Sue maintained a popular blog and is co-author of The Mystical Hexagram with Dr G.M.Vasey. Sue lived in Buckinghamshire, having been stranded there due to an accident with a blindfold, a pin and a map. She had a lasting love-affair with the landscape of Albion, the hidden country of the heart. Sue passed into spirit at the end of March 2021.

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