DAILY PHOTO: Man Mandir Gate, Gwalior

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A photograph taken at the Gwalior Fort that includes wall and gate of the Man Mandir.

Gateless [Lyric]

Photograph of a gate at Kothi Gulistan-i-Eram [कोठी गुलिस्तान-ए-इरम] in Lucknow, Madhya Pradesh, India.
A Wall -- one may love or hate.
But picture one without a gate.
It is our ever-present fate
to need to see from either side.

DAILY PHOTO: Ujjayanta Palace Gate

DAILY PHOTO: Changgyeonggung Palace

DAILY PHOTO: Sikandar Bagh, Lucknow

DAILY PHOTO: Rumi Darwaza, Lucknow

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DAILY PHOTO: Gate & Palm Trees, Vat Visounnarath

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DAILY PHOTO: Patuxai, Vientiane

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Through the Gate, Gladly [Free Verse]

Gates remain
 long after the walls
    have fallen.

People pass through
 when they could just
    go around.

There's something to
 treading the path
    of ancestors,

Or maybe they just crave
 the claustrophobic
    squeeze.

DAILY PHOTO: Gate to the Bibi Ka Maqbara

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