GRAND POETRY

GRAND HOTEL, TYNEMOUTH RESIDENCY 

GRAND TIMES - A NEW PUBLICATION 

Featuring Keith Armstrong’s sequence of poems inspired by his recent artist's residency: 

(1)

From this Grand window

My eyes

Surf

Across the sea

To a world 

Of stars

And tranquility.

(2)

In Room 333

I feel free

To admire

The view

And dream

Of a Duke 

And a Duchess

And a world

Passed by.

(3)

The Grand

Long Sands

So much

To understand.

(4)

Ships in the Night

Passing along

Hotel corridors

Full

Of memories

And exotic cargo.

(5)

The gulls’ wings

Flicker

Between the curtains

In my room.

(6)

I have written

A Grand poem

On the Long Sands

For visitors to read

From their windows.

(7)

Snapshots

At Reception

Today

All my dreams

Are

In colour.

(8)

There’s a seagull 

In Copperfield’s

And its wings

Are wet

Full 

Of the drink 

And tales

Of the Ocean.

(9)

The dogs

Are bounding

RIght across the Sands

And I

Am breathless

With love.

(10)

I am 

Getting married

To a barmaid

Today

All my dreams

Will come true.

(11)

This Hotel

Is friends

And its rooms

Are full

Of kisses.

(12)

I give 

You

This ring

To wed you

To the Sea.

(13)

The Grand Hotel 

Is on our flight path

And the sky is

On the Menu.

KEITH ARMSTRONG

Grand Hotel, Tynemouth