This is a nice poem. First off I like how you organized the layout of this with the expandable prompt. I also really like the title of your book item for this. It has a great alliteration.

Gateway is a great word to inspire a poem. I think you covered the prompt really nicely and I enjoyed reading it.

Here are some of my general observations:

You may want to adjust Gateway in lower case in the title... I recommend uppercasing it to give it more pop as it is the center thought of this poem unless there is an artistic reason you are keeping it in lower case.

I briefly thought this resembled an acrostic poem the way that this was set up visually.

You have some really good pairings with your lines in this. Having similar ideas together in consecutive lines to complement each other i.e.

A place -> A passage
Neither here -> Nor there
Portal guarded -> Guard post set
How to arrive -> How to depart

I also really love how you closed this poem out with the last 3 lines. It is cool to think of gateways as the point that joins places together. Also ending with the line a "A door to more" really leaves the reader with a sense of wonder reminding them there are pretty limitless possibilities that a gateway can lead to.

Thank you so much for writing.

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