Welcome Traveller Poem by Lucienne Kim Flavell

Welcome Traveller

Rating: 5.0


I can't sleep in hotels.

The sound of closing doors
and talk of people leaving
shakes the air inside my room.

Rain furrows the glass.
I look through the window
to see families and their luggage
spooling back in their cars.

I shut my curtains
against the gloaming
and lay alone.
I spend the night staring
at the white washed walls.

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'Welcome Traveller' won the Commended Prize in the Poetry Pulse Annual Competition
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