THE CHELSEA HOTEL

I want to spend all my nights
at the Chelsea hotel
in New York City

Alone with just my pen and paper
and my impassioned thoughts

I want the poets of the past
to enter those thoughts
like screams in dead silence

I want those screams
to go through me  
like a knife
that pierces a wound
that's beyond all cure

I want to write their words
as my own and not to know that

I want to feel them
as they have felt them

I want to be forgotten
and I want to be remembered

I want to live
with every word
that is read

I want to be taken
into your heart
like a lovers embrace
and given life to
with your voice

And I want to be
the tears you cry

I want to be the thing
you need most
but you don't know
what that thing is

I want to be your veins
that burst with a sickly thirst
and I want my poetry to be
what quenches your thirst

I want to be like rain
in the desert

I don't want
to be a dying song
that's never sung

By Samantha Campbell

Reviews

[Jibey]

I love the urge from your big heart... and I wanted to be the recipient of your refreshing rain, to drink your words and feel the solace of your mental caress....

[Coyote Poetry]

Leonard Cohen made the Chelsea hotel have life and myth. When I was young. I wanted to find my place where Cohen and Joplin talks. Write the great novel. New York taught me people who wanted everything and needed nothing. I got lucky. Ended up at Big Surf, California. Slow and easy people who love the words and song. I understand this poem. Took me back to the good days of youth.Thank you for the outstanding poetry.
Coyote

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

Much Thanks ... I really like Cohen I love the song Im your man

[Coyote Poetry]

He had many great songs. Fingerprints, you would like.

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

Ill have a listen to it :) and yes very true

[Thomas Fitzgerald]

Indeed I could do with a night there also! x

[KeeD]

Spoken form the soul.. represented very well.. kudos on this. Very creative.

[brucethemaster]

I believe most writers feel this way when it comes to their writing. They want their writing material to be heard. Very good job.

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

Thank you Bruce ... Steve Was just telling me about the books you sent him

[brucethemaster]

You're welcome. Yeah thats my book series containing poems and songs. They're not too bad if I say so myself lol

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

Yeah thats what Steve has said ... Ive tried my hand at writing songs cause lots of ppl tel my my stuff should be songs ... But in my eyes they come out as crap I have posted one song but it came out as a rap lol

[brucethemaster]

I used to write more songs, but now mostly poem stuff.

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

what type of songs?

here is the link to the one song I shared on this site http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/VirginPoet/990202/

[brucethemaster]

Various stuff. I will check it out.

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

ok and ok lol :)

[Will]

This one kinda reads like a ghost in the night: quiet and unassuming, but definitely leaves something behind. I love it, eerie and sad, but also powerful and strong. I could see ghosts of poets past leaning over your shoulder as you write this, and I could see blood composed of words coursing through veins. The imagery and metaphor is fantastic, and this is a great piece. Excellent work as always, Sam.

[BL]

Great I really like this

[John Alexander McFadyen]

A very reflective and sad piece Samantha. As always well written in expressive and flowing lines.