Free Verse · Inspirational
Commencement
They named it wrong on purpose:
commencement — a beginning,
held at the end of everything you've known —
because the people who built this word
knew a secret about doors:
every single one of them
is both.
Walk through.
Original poem © QuillOak — personal sharing is permitted.
“Commencement” by The QuillOak Editors — quilloak.com/poems/every-door-is-both
Quick facts
- Poem
- Commencement
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 8 lines
- Form
- Free Verse
- Themes
- Inspirational, Hope, Short
Text, source & rights
A traceable edition
Original QuillOak text. Personal sharing is permitted; other reuse requires permission.
- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalCommencement, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 dbe86d96caf0aec8…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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