Bottles by Borg de Nobel / http://borgeous.wordpress.com / used with permission /
100 Bottles
When young we sang
100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall
with all the windows open in
the church camp bus.
It didn't shock Jesus, who was
known to have enjoyed wine
in his time.
Still young I had
100 hangovers against my will
even with best intentions to
have just two drinks.
It didn't shock Mama, who had
grown as co-dependent
with my dad.
Less young I said
100 times The Serenity Prayer
with twenty others struggling for
sober freedom.
It didn't shock Mozart, who was
bone, breath, higher power
for my soul.
Written for Poetics — Borg de Nobel — at dVerse Poets. Our host, Claudia Schoenfeld, writes:
I loved each of the paintings for this prompt, but the one with the bottles spoke to me. Thanks to Claudia for introducing us to Borg de Nobel, and for her great idea.The cool thing about twitter is, that you constantly stumble upon lots of interesting people. A while ago, I found Borg de Nobel, a dutch painter in the twitter stream, checked her website and thought it would be cool to invite her to the pub with some of her paintings and have us write poems, inspired by her artwork.
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