Sad hotels ...

Cafe Blue was closed - I would sip my cappuccino there some other day - 

I had walked along the esplanade, past the sad hotels -  

I read their names - The Sherborne - The Edenhurst - Wenlock House - Maiden Rest - 

Each name had invoked within me a tender melancholy - 

I'd glimpsed inside their narrow hallways - 

I'd seen the empty dining rooms, the tables set for hopeful breakfasts -

Sash windows faced the sea - 

A small dog perched upon a sofa - 

Suitcases were opened in dimly lit bedrooms - 

Wind blown families explored the beach - 

A riderless white horse galloped away from an amusement arcade - 

15.00

Thursday 29 October 2015

The Esplanade

Weymouth 

Dorset