Your prompt today is: hotel. When you hear that word, which hotel comes to mind? Where was it? Describe that hotel. What does it looked like? The front desk, the elevator, the room. Images you see in your mind as you remember. Smells. Tastes. What is the hotel's neighborhood like? What did you experience at the hotel that makes it memorable?
If you don't have a personal hotel memory you want to write about, you might research an old hotel. Google is your friend.) For example, I found out that Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio lived in Suite 1806 at the Lexington Hotel in New York City. (It is now called the Norma Jean Suite.)
You can also invent a mythical or magical hotel and tell a fictional story in poetry form! Smiles.
I urge you to look at the poem "Hotel Insomnia" by Charles Simic. A really moving work, I think. And then there is Charles' Bukoski's "the German Hotel" which I like a lot too.
Did you know that Leonard Cohen's song "Chelsea Hotel 2" was written about a relationship he had with Janis Joplin in 1968, when they both lived there for a time. The video below tells a bit of the story. I love, love, love Leonard Cohen.
Please link one poem that is your response to the material of this prompt. Please remember that after you link your poem, to visit other links, in the spirit of community. Everyone appreciates having their poems read & commented on. Reciprocity helps a community thrive and grow.
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