Sweet Addiction

For all us morning zombies… the cure is coffee!

Steam rising and dancing

Across the rippling midnight pool

The welcome caress of vapors

Sensual and inviting, 

The warming embrace of aroma

Now flooding ethereal white

Swirling deep to rise

Till clink, tink, clank, chink

The pool now renders

A devine decoction

That distillation of welcoming dawn

Smooth and rich and just right sweet

Porcelain vessel of joy

Author's Note

I didn't know what to call this one. Thanks to my best friend, who's also a writer (a novelist) I now have the perfect title! When I saw it written in her message, it hit me like a bolt of lightning!

Reviews

[Brandy]

' The welcome caress of vapors, sensual and inviting. '
Okay, now I'm awake. : )

The steam rising and then falling. Yes, caffeine is needed it seems, to begin the day.
You paint such vivid images with your words. This is so beautifully written and presented.

[MomzillaNC]

Thank you!

[Pryde Foltz]

The pool now renders

A devine decoction

That distillation of welcoming dawn

Smooth and rich and just right sweet

Porcelain vessel of joy

There is something about being in water with the object of one's affection. A sensuous write to be sure:)

[MomzillaNC]

Thanks, Pryde

[krystle]

I love this! I knew one can create a piece so vivid about something so simple but this is lovely haha

[MomzillaNC]

Thanks so much. Sometimes, I think if you cut me, I'll bleed coffee!

[therisa]

As someone, who is caffeine-free (food allergy), for almost 24 years, Often, I wonder, how the world would survive, without it. Preferring, to have my body wake up, in a gradual manner. Never understood, how anyone wants to drink this bitter drink. Oh well. I hope you, enjoy your morning fix, Momzilla.

[MomzillaNC]

Thanks for the review. See, you don't understand why folks love coffee. I can't undertand why anyone does not! :D :D :D

[NoelHC]

It appears coffee drinking may be in your genes. http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2014/10/07/heavy-coffee-drinker-blame-your-genes-study-suggests/nBhbc0oDeX6PD1Rqg8gXiO/story.html?utm_content=buffer286fa&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

[therisa]

Well, for one, I would need to use my Epipen, if I drank coffee. And two, I hate needles. Need I say more?

[NoelHC]

Exactly, some are wired for it, others, not so much.

[MomzillaNC]

So glad I seem to be wired for coffee! :D

[Lady Glitter]

My cup is certainly a porcelain vessel of joy. For sure! No one can describe the exquisite experience of imbibing a cup of Joe like a lover of the brew. I love "The welcome caress of vapors..."

[MomzillaNC]

Too right! It's just got to be part of my morning ritual! There's a companion piece to this entitled, "Morning Sunshine."

[NoelHC]

There are only two kinds of coffee. No coffee. And not enough coffee. Porcelain vessel of joy? No, indeed, Porcelain vessel of existence!
A wonderful poem ma'am.

[MomzillaNC]

Thank you. Yes… I must have my vat-o-coffee in the morning! You should check out "Morning Sunshine."

[Chris]

a post-morn's delight - whisper sweet whirls and swirls of rising mist. A life's focus on this world...

[MomzillaNC]

Thanks for the review.

[Chris]

wasn't a review... was a moment's reverie..

[MomzillaNC]

Oh. Looks like the beginnings of a poem.

[Chris]

thoughts are like that...

[Frieda P]

Ha perfect, poetry and coffee, my morning addictions that needs no cure. I'd take it intravenously if I could.

[MomzillaNC]

Oh! I couldn't take it intravenously! The experience of that perfect cup of coffee is so much a part of why I drink it…

Thanks for your review.

[Frieda P]

I'm not a morning person, I need it to make the first cuppa coffee haha

[MomzillaNC]

I'm not a morning person until I've had that first cup!

[Not Your Typical New Yo..]

Hahahaha, there's nothing like coffee in the morning. And I do love the title she'd advised. Coffee is a sweet addiction all right

[MomzillaNC]

Such a sweet addiction… I tell my son all the time, "It's grownup fuel." And, there's nothing like that first, steaming cup in the morning. No other hot drink gives you that total experience.