A dozen poems about open doors, off the top of my head

[mme_n_b]

As promised to ms_eclectic a dozen poems about opening doors and/or hearts and/or self

1. Okudzhava: https://sites.google.com/site/poetryandtranslations/bulat-okudzhava/song-of-the-open-door
2. Kipling: https://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/open_door.html
3. Soutar: https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/open-door/
4. More Kipling, avoid this one, it's horrifying: https://www.bartleby.com/364/197.html
5. Noyes: https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-open-door-8/
6. Atwood, cheating on this one, since whether the door would've been better off open all along is very much up for discussion: http://artpropelled.blogspot.com/2010/07/door-poem-by-margaret-atwood.html
7. Heathcote (note that this one does door AND heart) https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-heart-is-an-open-door/
8. Dickinson: https://genius.com/Emily-dickinson-a-door-just-opened-on-a-street-annotated
9. Longfellow: https://www.hwlongfellow.org/poems_poem.php?pid=261
10. Whitman, of course: https://poets.org/poem/song-myself-xxiv
11. Disney! Did you think I'd skip this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtCXUFImZYE
12. Angelou: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48992/a-plagued-journey