One, two or five?
how many martinis
should I have?
How many will it take
for this world to
obliterate?
I swim across the room
unsteady and heady
The captain of this rolling ship
can’t seem to keep steady
I switch to negroni
laced with neat whiskey
Aah! there it is!
The room turns lake
as I watch the world
obliterate
©Vivian Zems
Paul hosts dVerse tonight with ‘drinking poems’. Bottoms Up!
Smell The Coffee 
February 20, 2018 at 9:03 pm
Love the use of rolling sea. Steady as she goes Cap’n.
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February 20, 2018 at 9:04 pm
That last line Vivian!
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February 20, 2018 at 9:06 pm
Such a long time since I dared to be drunk like that… but I do recall the sense of not recalling.
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February 20, 2018 at 9:24 pm
So you’re a martini kind of girl, Viv – is that shaken or stirred? I enjoyed the lines:
‘I swim across the room
unsteady and heady
The captain of this rolling ship
can’t seem to keep steady’
and
‘The room turns lake
as I watch the world
obliterate’.
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February 21, 2018 at 9:02 am
Thanks Kim! My drinking problem is that I can’t seem to manage more than 4 glasses of chardonnay in 1 YEAR!… so I’m usually the only sober one around 😂
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February 21, 2018 at 11:45 am
😊
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February 20, 2018 at 10:19 pm
Oh dear! My internal alarm clock always went off when things began to get a big fuzzy! I just never wanted my world to obliterate!
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February 21, 2018 at 8:04 pm
A good philosophy 😊
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February 20, 2018 at 10:32 pm
“negroni
laced with neat whiskey” … I love the way those words sound together.
“The room turns lake” … That is incredible.
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February 20, 2018 at 11:09 pm
If only the bliss of such obliteration would last…But then again, when could we enjoy the next drink if it did? 🙂
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February 21, 2018 at 8:03 pm
Imagine the hang over!!😮
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February 21, 2018 at 10:47 pm
LOL!!!
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February 21, 2018 at 12:08 am
I like all the watery ideas here like the captain of the ship and the room turning to lake.
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February 21, 2018 at 2:09 am
great writing. love the last line
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February 21, 2018 at 8:02 pm
Thanks Noel😊
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February 21, 2018 at 10:31 am
Oh, dear, that’s not good drinking. But it is good writing. I like the roll of the words, and the search for oblivion.
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February 21, 2018 at 8:01 pm
Spoken by a troubled mind, no doubt. (Not me! LOL!)
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February 21, 2018 at 2:20 pm
The things we hear on the news is enough to drive one to drinking for sure! Sadly the hangover is still there the next morning in both cases.!
Dwight
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February 21, 2018 at 7:58 pm
So true!
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February 21, 2018 at 9:57 pm
Aye Aye captain. Thanks for the journey!
Cheers
Mark
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February 21, 2018 at 10:07 pm
LOL!
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February 22, 2018 at 1:07 am
This is sad but an enjoyable poem.
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February 22, 2018 at 10:31 am
It is indeed. A sad POV. Thanks 🙂
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February 23, 2018 at 9:03 pm
I remember this feeling, when you lie down but the world carries on spinning, I think it is many years since I experienced that. XX
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