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I keep coming back for these Quadrille challenges! Each prompt invites me to think outside the box, pushing me to explore new themes and styles I might not otherwise consider. Whether writing about nature, feelings, or even booze, the community surrounding these challenges is incredibly supportive, providing feedback and encouragement that fuels my passion for poetry.

This poem was written in response to the prompt at Dverse, by whimsygizmo. Written as a Quadrille, it it is set at 44 words exactly, and must include the word “Lift” or a variation if it.

“Uplifting, liftoff, lifted up. Put some lifts in the shoes of your iambic feet. Do some heavy lifting with rhythm or rhyme or barely lift a finger and tap us out some light prose. ” – whimsygizmo

Booze and Bliss

Nothing lifts like that sting
From day drinking.
Its bliss sojourn with fizz.
A remedy for tight lips and 
Nonsense.
I just love the way it feels
Inside my skin.
The pumping booze within -
My shit-grin.
I’m the only cloud 
Out here floating.

Ah, the allure of booze and day drinking! It’s almost as if Ernest Hemingway himself could have penned these lines while sipping on a daiquiri in Havana. Hemingway once said, “I drink to make other people more interesting.”

Then there’s F. Scott Fitzgerald, who famously declared, “First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”

And let’s not forget Dorothy Parker, who quipped, “I like to have a martini, two at the very most. After three I’m under the table, after four I’m under my host.”

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This poem was written by dark fiction author, Willy Martinez, to be released on the Ritual Blog for Mind on Fire Books.

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