Welcome to week 100 everyone! Wow, can you believe we are just a month away from being open 2 full years….time flies.
100 Tuesdays…around 15000 poems…and 100s & 100s of poets…have graced the virtual halls of our pub…even now i hear the echoes in the walls…
Personally, I want to thank all those that make this a special place…
the pub tenders…those currently serving…and those prior…that have given their time, art, attention, encouragement and counsel…
the poets that each week bring their voice and then take the time to invest in the lives of others who link in…
you are the magic that is dVerse Poets…
Claudia & i were talking earlier this week about how special 100 is…we actually invited the President of The Poetry Institute to share a few words…they just celebrated 100 years…i mean, we are almost the same you know…smiles…never heard back from him…
100 is 1 more…than 99…smiles…and as long as we keep one more in our sights…we are good…so next week, we will celebrate 101…
Claudia, what do you have to add?
Step by step – I like that – smiles
Just recently I said that when I go to an exhibition, I don’t just look at the paintings but I’m also interested in the person behind the paintings, their story, the way how their art developed, what people they met along the way.
The big painters inspired each other and touched each others lives. And that gives just such a wonderful dynamic and also makes a big difference compared to if each of them had just done their own thing in an isolated place.
I think we do the same here, and that’s what I love in the pub and why I’m so proud that we made it to OLN 100 already… wow.. you all inspire me, you challenge me, you put the bar high sometimes and… you make me smile.. I like that…smiles
Thanks for sharing you poetry, your story and also your time with us so freely and open minded..
So Bri, where’s Gandalf with the firework now… ? smiles
Happy OLN 100!
If you are new here, this is how it works:
- Write a poem and post it on your website
- Click on the Mr. Linky button below and enter the direct URL to your poem
- Visit others—that is what makes dverse work…don’t drop a link & run…you’ll miss it
- Promote yourself & dverse on social media use @dversepoets or #OpenLinkNight so we can find you
- Have fun
From all of us to all of us…much love….see you out on the trail. ~Brian & Claudia
dVerse 
happy OLN everyone…and wow…soon our 2 years anniversary as well…thankful for each and everyone of you who fills the pub with life and verse…. here’s to many more OLN’s… see you out on the trail…
Happy 100th to all of you poetry bar tenders and patrons too 🙂
Wow! The century mark! That’s awesome, y’all! You’re doing a great job, and I enjoy your site tremendously!
good to see you buddy…and thank you…and thank you…smiles.
This is just awsome… 100 pubs. and yet another night to read and be read.. 🙂
to read and be read…nice..sounds a bit shakespeare’ean…smiles
Happy 100th OLN ~ WHOOOOO ~ Fireworks and confetti in the air ~
Here’s to one more and more and more ~ Cheers ~
woot woot!
woohoo….100….
welcome everyone…looking forward to some poetry fun tonight…
was great getting to ‘meet’ a bunch of you last night as well
as a warm up…
see you out on the trail…
Oh maaaannn… time flies, eh?! 100th OLL already!!! Awwwesome! Congrats, y’allz…
I’ve got to admit I haven’t been writing much recently…but how could I EVER miss such a big milestone!!!! 🙂
Heartiest Congratulations to all here! And may we all enjoy 100s and 1000s of OLLs to come… 🙂
hey kavita…great to see you in the pub
great to see you kavita!!!!!!! smiles…
100 at your dVerse sea and every single one was gotten by me thanks to my ocd haha here’s to 1000, okay I skipped a few steps.
a crown for the cat please…smiles
No rhyming reply Pat ~ Smiles ~
1000 works for me…and i have a treat for you in the next day or two cat…haha…
Happy 100th! Love what you do here.
thanks tonya – we love having you here
Woohoo for 100 weeks! I missed being here last week, hoping to have a bit more time this week to catch up on everyone’s great writing! Happy Open Link Night!
smiles….glad to see you back…and i hear you on having time…busy summer with my boys…ran home from the pool to be here…smiles.
Congrats to everyone involved on this historic day! Especially the hard working and committed hosts – this is simply the best forum of it’s kind I know of … lost count of the number of folk I have recommended it to… Here’s to the next 100.
here’s to the next 100 yes..thanks scott..
good to see you scott….and thank you for spreading the love man…
How wonderful to be a part of Open Link Night 100; been hanging around for about a year, so have attended over 50 of these Tuesdays. Brian & Claudia have created a poetic “force” that has to be reckoned with, and it will last; built that way. I have linked up 2nite with LOVE HURTS, part 10 or 12. I know it requires grit & stamina, and a healthy attention span to stick with “cinemagenic” poetry; Thanks to all; hope you dig it.
smiles…enjoying your cinematic posts glenn and thanks for being around..
dude its an amazing series…and one of my favs of yours so its been good to go back through them…
Wishing dVerse and dVersers a very happy 100! and many more 100’s and happier
Lovely to see you Nilanjana ~ Cheers ~
smiles….def good to see you….and thank you…
Yey! Congratulations to the pub and the tenders. This is a lovely place, one of the best there is. 🙂
The connections we make here have been amazing ~ Nice to see you Imelda ~
And you too, Grace. 🙂
Happy Tuesday, and thanks for all you do here!
Couldn’t miss this one–many congratulations on a real achievement, Brian and Claudia. Operating a site like this takes a tremendous amount of commitment, energy and hard work–hats off to you and all those regulars bellied up to the bar and tenders behind the scenes. Here’s to a hundred more.
thanks hedge…and thanks for all the work you did as a pub tender as well
smiles…much love joy….always great to see you…and thank you for the years you put into this as well…smiles.
Happy 100th!
Thank you all for influencing my words… for making me think and ponder… for inspiring me. You have shaped my poetry… have challenged me in such good ways… have helped me find my voice.
I couldn’t be more grateful.
Now, let’s celebrate, shall we… 🙂
smiles…always happy to see another german in the pub…
🙂
Week 100! Wow. Happy Open Link Night to all, and very happy milestone day to Brian, Claudia, and all the pub tenders.
Happy 100! Still technologically impaired here but wanted to take the half hour to type this out on my phone (I miss Swype). I am so happy and grateful that I found diverse and gathered the courage to participate. Thanks for everything!
ha. there are days i feel tech impaired as well…glad you found that courage…
This is way more fun than drinking alone in front of my computer. 🙂 Grace, thanks for introducing me to Claudia and Brian and all the others here who visit from around the globe. Can’t wait to dive into the poetry sea. Happy 100!
Lovely to see you here Michael ~ 🙂
Happy 100th!!
booyah! hey rva!
Good afternoon, all! Remember, a wizard is never late, nor early!
true that…and good to see you…feels like it has been a bit…
Happy 100th! You guys are awesome.
Pamela
Happy 100th to you too ~ 🙂
When I first snuck into the pub I had no idea how much difference it would make to both my writing and reading of poetry, but it has been more than that too. Thanks to everyone who makes this site what it is; to Brian and Claudia who have given so much to us all; to the various hosts, past and present, who have informed us, challenged us and stretched our writing week by week; and to all the poets who share their work for us to enjoy. Here’s a toast to one and all. Happy 100th everybody – and here’s to many, many more…. smiles
i raise my glass…and thanks tony for the work you do in the pub as well…a little hint…tony will teach us about rondelets on thursday….psssshhhh…smiles
That’s a little hint!!!
smiles…thank you for all you do sir…now i need to get writing…smiles.
Rondolet that I’ve never tried… triolets but never rondolets. seems to be some similarities, Better line up my iambs then,,, 🙂
100 weeks, wow, that’s impressive – just had to join in again after a long hiatus (computer woes, etc etc, long story)… but i’m here
hey ruth! great to see you…sorry to hear about the computer woes….ugh….
Wow! Happy 100th!!!
WOW! three cheers! 🙂 and I still find reading the 100 odd entries a challenge. Nevertheless, up in the wee hours of IST to raise a toast in this PUB. Happy OLN everyone. will catch up, slow and steady
well…i would not recommend reading them all….and you can pretty well figure out after a week or two who is here to share and hang out…and who just drops links and runs away….
Happy 100th! We’re both celebrating birthdays:-)
woot…and kids coming home as well right?
ok…short break..need to pack my bags…flying to hamburg tomorrow morning…
yep…gotta get dinner on so when T gets home it is ready…be back shortly
nice…. so what are you cooking…?
packed and ready… will hit a few before early bedtime…flight goes at 6h30 tomorrow morn…oy….
kabobs & sweet potato fries…
travel light.
Thank you, Thank you! 100 OLNs is nothing to sneeze at* so the President of PI missed a great opportunity!
I had to post today’s poem to gloss the one before, but it still needs work, like examples, and a last word suggested by Mary. I’ve been enjoying posts of works in progress lately. Choices, alternatives, influences. I love the Pub!
* idiom meaning “something that deserves serious attention”
Félicitations to all OLB-ers – poets and tenders alike.
Congratulations!
thanks martin
was nice hanging out with you last night and learning a bit of your story…
Done with reading a few and now droopy eyes giving away. It is 1.50 AM IST wednesday morning and the night has its share of making its presence felt. Well, I do have such madcap moments..taking a dig on the clock! 🙂
sleep well…
A wonderful milestone. Congrats to Brian and Claudia and everyone who comes by, tends and participates. I’ll be in in a couple of minutes!
Happy 100 to you!
Wow this is the first time I’m trying this. *_*
Just posted my link….Can’t wait to read the other works posted here 🙂
Welcome to the Pub. We hope you enjoy the craic around here.
welcome to dverse…have fun making friends….and will drop in on you shortly…
Wow 100 Open Link Nights! It feels like we’re just getting started!!!!
Happy 100 to dCrew and all my fellow OPNers past and present. See ya 100 + 1.
oh but we are just getting started…smiles.
I am a bit late here today; but I congratulate both Brian and Claudia for the foresight to open and continue to nurture dVerse! How exciting to be posting here for #100 Open Link. Wow, almost two years. Where has time gone? Raising my glass to each of you who are part of dVerse or who participate in dVerse. What a joy to have met each of you!
its crazy to me that it has almost been 2 years…seems like just a couple months ago i emailed the idea to claudia and asked her to own it with me…it was called dverse poets cafe in my original idea…and she changed it to pub…which is much better…smiles.
Nice backgrounder Brian ~ I recall those early and exciting times ~
Mary, indeed time flies so fast ~ I raise my glass to everyone here tonight ~
Cheers ~
Wow. I hope to be a more regular participant here. Summer is upon me and a bit of family structure has been thrown to the wind… I also have an empty house next year during the day as my youngest son starts kindergarten… I guess my poem “Letting Go” doesn’t apply to just teenage daughters!
Wohoo! Congrats on 100 and 2 years. The dVerse team should be very proud.
wow you are in the midst of letting go…kindergarten is a big step…as well as with teens….
Is there a need for or a place here where you receive donations? Are they needed? There must be some cost in running a site like this…
you know…we have never done it…it costs about $70 a year to run the site between the domain registry and the linky…usually claudia and i just split it…a tip jar might not be bad…smiles.
I think it is a great idea – a tip jar. It could also go to help defray other expenses for the administrators when they travel, etc to represent dVerse. Just a thought.
Happy “Celebrate 100” week, a milestone indeed!! Haven’t quite made all of the weeks, but here more often than not, even if I’m running in late from work — like tonight! Always look forward to my Tuesday nights at the pub!
smiles….dont speed….and have fun at work if possible….
Many congratulations Brian and Claudia. You’ve both put in so much work (and continue to do so.) It is quite inspirational. k.
whassup k!!!!!
smiles.
Ha. Don’t have my real computer with me and have become almost too popular at my job–popular may not be the word– inefficient? Not easy to keep it in bounds, but my heart is with you whether or not I get something up. K.
Actually your little comment has just now inspired–will see what I can manage. K.
Brian and Claudia, you have made online poetry fun for a community that is like no other. Thanks 100 times for all you do!
thanks punny…
Wow–100!! …smiling big…happy OLN everyone!!
hey we like smiles around here…smiles.
Lovely to see you here Jennifer ~ Happy OLN ~
Happy 100 to all…how cool!!! 🙂
hiya! smiles.
Happy OLN to you too ~ 🙂
Happy OLN 100! Many thanks to our pub tenders and to the poets who share through this forum. 🙂
beth!! happy oln and thanks for the wonderful poetic time travel you’re taking us on on mondays…
The time travel is my pleasure, believe me. I’m enjoying this new focus.
very cool…yer heppin to edjumacate this her poetry idjit…smiles.
Happy 100th dVerse…it has been a pleasure conversing here with so many wonderful poets..I thank all of you who make it possible a special shout out to Claudia and Brian..applauding here…thank you!
Thank you for connecting with us too ~ Cheers ~
Sto Lat!
not too late at all…smiles.
won’t manage to catch up as i soon have to leave for the airport and then all day in seminars in hamburg but will be back in the evening and fill my hamburg hotel room with a bit of poetry which i’m looking forward to..smiles
Travel safe Claudia ~ I will be saying good night too and returning visits tomorrow ~
Cheers ~
travel light, friend.
Brian, do you realize that you and Claudia have read, inwardly digested and kindly and wisely commented on more than
[sorry, my comment flew before I was ready]
TEN THOUSAND comments on this blog ?
Homeric!
ha. yes we have…smiles…its funny too as Randy reran a poem tonight from months ago…his fav dverse poem…and without even a note i knew it was a rerun…its a good poem, but i knew it..ha…
It was 4 am when I wrote my previous comment and I was wrong:
It is twice that and you visited 20.000 poems:
an average of 200 per week, judging by the number of participants each week, so 50 x 200 x 2 for two years [ 4 weeks off for good behaviour :-)]
The dedication to us all is utterly amazing.
oh I always hate being late for the party – fashionably late phooey! but better late than never – I am constantly moved and astonished by the remarkable poetry exhibited here at the pub week after week. thanks so much to Brian and Claudia and everyone who gives their time so that we have a safe and open forum to grow and learn and read and laugh and cry each week. You are the best! … i heard there were fireworks… did I miss the fireworks? smiles – K
oh you are in plenty of time…we still have over 24 hours of poetry to go….no, i will launch a few more for you…smiles.
Congrats on the 100 weeks everyone – fab milestone! It’s been a great journey of poems and people.. 🙂
nice…i love jack! very cool poem becky….
alright…to bed with me…
be back in the AM poets….
Congratulations gang, great idea.
Happy hundred and congratulations 🙂
…i can’t believe i was here almost 2 years ago when the whole epic started then life blew me away & i disappeared… almost 2 years ago i was illegitimate part of the group… a total stranger… i don’t know you & you don’t know me but we both exist on the same ground… now i am just happy to be here again & so blessed to be more than part of the group… HAPPY 100th OLN!!!! aww…
…so many things to celebrate today… Today is also my parents’ 24 Wedding Anniversary…. & Philippines’ 115th Independence Day from over 3 centuries of Spanish rule… smiles…
wow…quite the celebration going on at your place kelvin…i am glad you emerged my friend…
Nice to see you here Kelvin ~ A lot of things to celebrate ~ Magandang umaga ~
It’s goodnight from him …
and Good Morning from me, although this is a flying visit. I have a meeting all day today looking at the future of publishing. I think sites like this will have a significant role to play in that.
http://roslynrosssmallstones.blogspot.com/2013/05/synchronicity.html
silly me. I forgot Mr Linky. And it is not possible to delete. Sorry.
Cheers Claudia and Brian – finally arrived. Did I miss my round? :o]
Anna :o]
not at all…smiles.
Billy Paul left a lasting impression…
hey walt!
What’s up, Brian! On a bit of a roll.
a roll is not a bad thing to be on…
or have with butter…smiles.
good evening from hamburg…was a good day… back in my hotel room and catching up…smiles…happy wednesday everyone… got up at 3h45 am today..so i’mabitsleepy…smiles
so a good day…that is a good thing…smiles…
get some rest c
Happy 100 OLN everyone hugs to you all and all the best
Happy 100 OLN to you too ~
Great milestone!
Thank you ~ And nice to meet you ~
Ha! Brian, Claudia – I think I may have just made Mr. Linky. It is probably too late for any visit, and I’ve been terrible. I really had thought my work-life would get easier over the last couple of months, but this has definitely not proven to be the case. Oh well. Many congratulations. k.
You made it K ~ Wishing you a lovely week ahead ~
Thanks so much, Grace. k.