Nordic cloud

May 06, 2010 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

My Quivering Liver

I quiver as my liver is shocked to the core,

its queasy, uneasy, not young any more,

I'm soon on the brink,because of the drink,

my body is leaving its usual sync.

"Saluti, saluti," and cheers in the day,

"Cheers" and "Good health" in the night,

with friends at the pub I feel gay,

but loose my invincible sight.

Next day I'm not well I'm sorry to tell,

taking my pillow for my head,

no longer in heaven but rather in hell,

so lie there instead in my bed.

Oh why do I do it, and do it and do it,

no stopping to recount the cost,

this time it is serious, I blew it,

so change is becoming a must.

No need for the liquor when having fun,

relax and just be your good self,

brave it out or you'll be on the run,

and find yourself on the shelf.

— Nordic cloud, May 06, 2010

About This Poem

About the Author

Region, Country: Oslo and Flatdal, Norway., NOR

Favorite Poets: Too daunting this.

Critiques

Seren

16 years 1 month ago

Dearest Ann

I have been tiddley, drunk, paraletic drunk and comatose lol so I can honestly say I can live without the hangovers lol .... I would add 'as' to the very first line before 'I'... wonderful poem loved it there were a couple of other lines I would tweak but its nearly dinnertime I will come back and offer some more suggestions if you like ?? I loved this one lol pisshead I used to be, havent had a drink in four months but I havent missed it, yet lol love and big hugs JayCee x x x x ("Quote:-For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.-Ivan Panin")

Seren

16 years 1 month ago

My mum told me a hangover

My mum told me a hangover cure but it only works if you dont drink the brewery Eph lol :P schooner of water and two panadol or asprin and i am half human the next day lmao love and big hugs JayCee x x x ("Quote:-For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.-Ivan Panin")

Nordic cloud

16 years 1 month ago

Oh wine and weed, the only weed for me is tea.

Ann of Norway Wine each day glides down my gullet, its medicine I say, they say it too; but weed, well tea is an intoxicant too but sooner or later with the tannin or the coffein one becomes saturated with it and then it doesn't work so well any more; like sugar, the more you eat it the more you crave it, and cigarettes are more addictive than heroin, so there is much in this world to tempt us; but I am so glad early man has taught us not to eat some of the poisons - in which pass time he lost his life, they were human ginuea pigs werent they! Thank you early man. And you too Ephriam from Ann.

Geezer

16 years 1 month ago

Oh, my Queen...

What words of wisdom. Though they aren't any that I haven't thought before. I drink rarely now, and with much more circumspect, than in the days of my youth. Like Janey, I would add as, or a comma after quiver. And replace [mistaking] maybe use [taking], just one too many syllables. Never been drunk? Oh, my Queen, I think you are drunk on the wine of life! I have seen you quite giddy there! ~ Your humble, loving knight, Sir Gee.

Nordic cloud

16 years 1 month ago

Dead right you are my Knight Sir Gee

Ann of Norway I am I was I will be and because I don't know, just because. When I danced at Art College hops they called them, I danced so wildly and naturally that sometimes they would sit and watch me, the theme I gave myself was always different according to the inspiration the music gave me, sometimes, I remember it was a motorbike theme too(!), and they thought I was drunk to abandon all care of what I looked like in the sounds and my movements always varied and for me like the words I use, my hair flying, long; I found it exciting to research with movements of my own body in harmony with the jazz, and when I realised there was glass on the floor from their broken glasses I would leave quietly. Thank you my Knight, thank you for understanding me you are indeed a right hand man for me. I shall not forget! Your Queen Ann. With love.

Kailashana

16 years 1 month ago

I’ve never been drunk

I've never been drunk either, been high often enough, tho I have seen the devastation of addiction up front and personal. Love your light-heartedness here, Ann even as I recently watched a program on the chemistry of addiction. In the end, human will (or won't) wins (or loses). Love, my dear sister, ~Anna "The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses, but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as a creation of his senses." ~ Ernst Mach

Nordic cloud

16 years 1 month ago

Anna I have been high

Ann of Norway Anna, I have been high:- But only on life itself, as high as it gets, so I never needed to inebriate myself in order to feel the exhileration of intoxication; lucky I suppose to have chosen my parents carefully, which one should HAHA!!! As if one could! But lucky anyway I guess, and so the antidote to such temptations is an easy one for me, I never felt OBLIGED to drink because.... or in order to make an effect with myself, or just to forget that I even existed, NO not for me and yet the slight dizziness I can see why it tempts as all one's worries disappear and there in another world one sees and hears and feels so many unknown sensations, or so I am told, so I am not sure that it is the same thing to run in the wind and feel so high that one could take off and fly, but that's what I can do when I wish to. Your life-inebrated sister Ann. If I visited you(?) I would perhaps allow you to let me try a tiny bit of something just to have understood what it was all about, perhaps!!!! Dangerous thought maybe!! Quiver. Your quote says it too, no?

Orphani

16 years 1 month ago

Everything in life worth

Everything in life worth having and keeping, comes with balance, and with a price. One decides to enhance the relaxing experience of a piece of music with a glass of wine, or a beer after work. If then you say where's my beer, or wine, or whatever to reach that place - remove it from your life, because it's no longer about the experience you want to enhance, but the enhancement itself, and that road is never ending. It becomes a substitute for facing life directly and honestly and head-on. There is more lost from refusing to see; than in refusing to see it with a buzz. Just ask the bees. B

Kailashana

16 years 1 month ago

Brilliantly explained my

Brilliantly explained my brilliant poet, Barry...o. However, let me explain, that life is a continual buzz (have you heard the sound in your ears, did you think it was tinnitus?), when there's nothing to explain and enjoyment is all there is. No *enhancement* is necessary, even as each and every well-balanced enhancement is the cat's meow, so to speak. But what does anything say about the art of making love? Meow! ~A "The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses, but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as a creation of his senses." ~ Ernst Mach

Nordic cloud

16 years 1 month ago

Yes that's the word for it Anna

Ann of Norway "Tinnitus" but it will just have to be got used to won't it? As to enhancement, well, as Barry said at the start, its the balance in all things, like "a little is as good as a feast" etc. Harmony and balance in all things and the world would go so beautifully wouldn't it? As is sometimes the case when one reflects on it, and finds oneself in the right place at the right time and all seems to happen of itself, and yet we create the frame within which it can take place by our choices. Ah how lucky I have been in this life, and I thank my life for being what it has so far. The only things I regret are some of the things I didn't do for others or that could have been done with a great deal of money, like having a gallery and filling it with paintings and sculptures that were totally original and ever-changing, that's what Erik and I would have done, and with poetry and all sorts created something particular. But then we cannot all be sudden millionaires can we so we accept the pattern that it becomes and make the joy happen in that. Takk to you Anna and Barry

shirley harrison

16 years 1 month ago

A cure

Hello Anne this is wonderful,me like Seren have enjoyed a good drink. Your poem is amazing and here in Italy their is no one really to share,just as well as when i get a hangover its stays for a day, as im getting older! I too wrote about the liver how funny! Much kind regards shirley harrison

Nordic cloud

16 years 1 month ago

Le crise de foie n'est pas?

Ann of Norway Don't know how to say that in Italian, its THE French saying par excellence; whereas in Australia in the 60's it was allergies, in Britain it was obesity, and so on, in Norway it is Blood pressure, the main topic of grumbled conversation. Oh you lucky devil living in Italy where one feel the renaissance and the majesty of art at the same time as the wonderful cuisine, num num I'm coming over to see again I must. Una lingua qui cantare, a me piace molto molto. Norway is very beautiful we almost feel we should never leave it, even though the WInters are blooming freezing sometimes this year has been particularly snowy and long cold. OH I can't even speak English any more!!!!! Saluti cincin(?) to you lucky you. Love from Ann OOps and thank you for your comment Shirley.

shirley harrison

16 years 1 month ago

your italian is perfect

And i have forgoten my english as i have been here so long, thats one of the reasons i joined Neo,so i could express my self as its not always easy, although in my home town they call me "IL Sole" and that is a great compliment! if you ever want recipes then just ask as Tuscan cooking is Buono Buono!!!!! Tanti baci da Firenze...... shirley harrison