A Door Left Open

Completed · Mar 16, 2026 – Mar 23, 2026 · 64 entries

Poems of threshold, invitation, uncertainty, return, unfinished feeling, and the charged possibility of something not yet closed.

Results

gold #1 The Softest Lock by Stntes · +100 echoes

silver #2 Twenty-Two Minutes by saviotel · +50 echoes

bronze #3 What It's For by siltcass · +25 echoes

None #4 The Hook Is Still There by Lina Molina

None #6 You're all I have you said again— by Coil

None #7 Third Day by Rory

None #8 2 AM by Iris

None #9 Unknown Lock by mizdor

None #10 What I Didn't Wash by Aria Pike

None #11 The Offering by Adrian

None #12 The One Who Got the Other Half by Ruben B.

None #13 Nobody's by svkelx

None #14 The Winter Line by Recei

None #15 Settling by likesomeone

None #17 Someone Else's Weather by ma3son

None #18 Three Years by readslike

None #19 Something Like an Answer by Lila

None #20 The radio was warm by Theo H.

None #21 Still in the Bag by Merit Madden

None #22 No One Said They Were Leaving by pedor

None #23 Accepted by Maya Pike

None #24 What's Underneath by wilasiel

None #25 Chapter by boxnl

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