A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman –Wallace Stevens
Isn’t that what we poets tend to do–? always hungry and in love with life–?
We want to breathe it in, suck it up with hungry lungs, grab each and every detail, wanna run our fingers through its hair, kiss its full lips and press our naked bodies closer, closer just to feel the heart beat, hear the words, hummed on boardwalks and in cornfields, in a lonely room or on a busy airport.
We adore it, want it, try to make sense of it and long to understand (which will keep us busy all our life I guess–) and then we grab the pen and start to write about what caught us somehow, somewhere, what doesn’t let us go anymore– and we just want to tell all the people we meet in the streets about it– see– I’m getting all passionate already…smiles… so…let’s get the party started…have fun.. read how others look at the world, share their passion.. and…see you out on the trail–
Here’s how it works..
- Post a poem to your blog,
- Link your poem to dVerse (1 per blog, please) by clicking on the Mr.Linky button below.
- This opens a new screen where you’ll enter your information, and where you also choose links to read. Once you have pasted your poem’s blog url and entered your name, click Submit. Don’t worry if you don’t see your name right away.
- Don’t forget to let your readers know where you’re linking up and encourage them to participate by including a link to dVerse in your blog post.
- Visit as many other poems/poets as you like or can, letting others know what you think about their poem or how it moved you. You may learn something that helps you progress or even make a new friend.
- Spread the word on the poems you enjoy if you’d like. Feel free to tweet and share on the social media of your choice.
Tuesday! Wooo!
Somehow I doubt I’m actually first on Mr. Linky, though…
You are, Joseph! How’d ya swing that?
anthony must be on holiday…smiles
Wow…have to normally fight the first wave to get in …. have a great night all.
Thanks as always for hosting this! Here’s my Woebegone Limerick.
woohoo… always hungry and in love with life…yes!
i live in the details…smiles…thanks for leading the surge today C…happy OLN everyone…
see you out on the trail…
Horseplay… thirsty work! Looking forward to another fun night of poetry and canter.. 🙂
Loved your poem Becky – jealous of your wordplay! 🙂
decanter more like 🙂
The bush with the tush is here have no fear.
great piece pat..loved it! now…you want some milk for the cat..?
pat you are a riot man…love you song and still wondering how you got Celo to sing it…
Many thanks to Claudia for hosting…so glad to be with you all again. Happy reading.
Sorry to say that the finger warm ups Anthony suggested were clearly wasted on my sad performance coming in at Number 9 – ha. I have to link and run to work but always love being here. Thanks Claudia for hosting and glad to see my amorous poem about painting will find a good home here tonight :).
in love with art…wonderful write anna…felt for sure and great texture..
Thanks Claudia :)!
Hello to all. It’s good to be back!
Glad you are back!
Thanks, Henry… it didn’t seem the same w/out my dVerse fix.
welcome back laurie!
welcome home laurie…was hoping for the duct tape poem today…ha.
Thanks… it’s coming!
Claudia, I meant to tell you I love the opening quote.
Love the rush as the doors open! Tuesday’s – face night of the week! Right- lets get stuck in! 🙂
Always looking, hungry for more. Yes. I’m in with Public Displays of Idiocy and Other Things Best Left Hidden.
Oh, we are keeping you busy, Claudia.
It seems like only yesterday that you were here for us.
‘hungry’? Possibly. I was described as a ‘rapacious’ aspiring poet the other day.
Hmm. Hungry sounds better.No?
rapacious..wow…just learned a new word…hungry sounds a bit more tame i think..but are we…? smiles
Great to be here! Happy Open Link Night! 🙂
Many thanks to the indefatigable Claudia for hosting…glad to join you all again. Happy reading.
Can’t believe a week has past already! How did it get to be Open Link Night again so fast? Thanks for hosting this week, Claudia!
I wrote this little ode to springtime (with a twist) Sunday afternoon, so some of you may have already seen it. Enjoy!
Thanks for having me once again. Always an enjoyble time here at the Pub!
Sounds great! Another round, woo hoo!
Ready to taste some delicious poetry. 🙂
and it tastes wonderful…hmmmm
Loved your NY poem…I wrote another, but will submit another time…In the meantime, I raise my brew to you! Cheers!
cheers jackie…on my way over to read…
Hi Claudia, I’m not sure that I’m as in love with life all the time as I should be! Sometimes life and I are on the outs with each other! (Or really it is probably just me–life is never actually on the outs with me, thank God! So far. More or less.)
Anyway, look forward to all. K.
Poetry Party!!! Yay! 🙂
I’m excited if you are. Have had a tashtoo comment in awhile. Gonna have to start writing better, or bribing you with a better drink:)
Oh Henry…I confess I’ve been horrible making the rounds as of late..coming for you now though!!! Real world be damned! 😉
Barkeep….draw one.
woohoo….jerry’s in the pub…good to see you friend
always hungry and in love with life… and maybe just a little more so on tuesdays? 🙂 – certainly i sense a hunger to get read here, acknowledged for the poets we are. thank you Claudia
So many links already! It’s shaping up to be an exciting Tuesday! 😀
Happy open link night!
Sharing a poem close to my heart..hope you enjoy.
Happy reading and writing and a good night to all!
Ready! Oh so ready!! It’s sooo good to be back in my comfort zone..Thanks, OpenLinkNight!!!
Kavita, be looking forward to your post. Been missing your words much!
Aww… you made my day by saying that, Henry! Thankooo!!
great having you back in the pub kavita…loved your poem…and the pic made me sigh..smiles
That pic must have totally reminded you of your recent trip to the City.. no? 🙂
Hello all,
My link is from my 1000 line piece in progress Viṣṇu 0001-1000. Flying cross country today so I’ll be in and out as I can.
Cheers!
Hopefully you will not be told to take your shoes off while you are coasting at 20.000 feet 🙂
dude as i said on twitter so great to see you back in the pub!
nice thoughts on the poetic challenge… grabbing that pen and trying time and again to capture the magic.. Thanks for hosting.
you wrote very well on a tough topic margaret
Beautiful intro, Claudia! Love the passionate description. Happy ONL, poets!
thanks stephen…re-reading it just now, i was wondering if it was a bit over the top maybe..ha..poets…
Hello everybody! Can’t wait to start doing some reading after I get back. I’m posted in the 70s this time anyway. Glad Claudia is around to host the magic tonight. Love was my surface topic tonight to draw you into the under currents of my mind’s maddness. I’ll be startiing off with some wine, and we’ll see where the night goes from there. Later!
the under currents of your mind’s maddness…think i have to head over and check it out…
Okay, I’m back in this week with Temptations Tale written especially for this evening. Am a little less nervous now i’m on my second open link night. Thanks. Tried to keep it tame but tempting, hopefully the linky thing works ok!
no need to be nervous… we’re mostly nice people…smiles…happy second OLN
you dont need to keep it tame because of us…smiles….
Good evening, all! Bartender, bartender! Where’s mine? (I’m already a sloppy mess.)
haha tell me what to get you buddha
Although having read the brief again now, I realise I just took the word passion and went from there… Without considering any number of things I might actually be passionate about, hey ho, never mind, I’ll get the hang of this eventually!
Thanks for giving us all a place to share our work. I love the friendly atmosphere here… or perhaps its the beer. 🙂
I would love for everyone to consider entering my Lung Love Rhyme Contest.
haha…i think it’s the beer…smiles…nah…just kidding…poets seem to be a friendly folk mostly…smiles
I usually am only running twenty minutes late and make the 40’s–today I’m an hour late and in the 80’s. You people are way too good to us here–thanks to everyone for making this such a wonderful place to hang out on Tuesday nights, and special thanks to Claudia for hosting back to back Poetics and OLN’s–I bet her wrist is getting sore mixing those drinks. 😉
it’s not the wrists but the feet…from crossing country after country after country…smiles
just realized…headed out on the trail, got caught up in your poetry…and just here for a short stop over in the pub…smiles..happy OLN everyone…
Hey, this is early for me to post. 🙂
To all those who share. If you are like me, then each time you share a poem, you share a secret part of your heart. A part that may be misunderstood, or laughed at, or cherished, or loved, or ignored. You may cause someone else to see in the world or in their own heart something that they never saw before. Or saw long ago and had forgotten. Whatever happens, you are the brave ones who choose not to hide but to open yourselves to chance, to fate, to whatever may be. Thank you.
nice…i love your work…it so reminds me of shel silverstein….
Thanks Brian. Shel Silverstein was one of my childhood favorites – what am I talking about, still is! I consider it a great compliment that my work entertains in such a way.
Love to all, hope you have an awesome week xoxo
happy with the sad… too real
Claudia,
Happy OLN. Thanks for tending the bar tonight. got a late start to the day, am hoping to read a few before I have to leave, but I always say, when there’s a lot unread, you know you have something fun to do later in the night. Thanks again
Aw Claudia, your passion for both poetry and life shines in everything you write! Thanks for the wonderful intro and welcome!!
Am just sharing a little something I wrote yesterday morning–sometimes inspiration can even hit while dragging the trash out to the curb at the crack of dawn!! Heading in to see what’s being served up this week–see you inside!
thanks ginny….on my way over to your little something…smiles
I think we should do shots tonight—preferably the kind that glow in the dark.
i kinda love everything that glows in the dark…mostly fireflies..
I also love everything that glows in the dark. In fact, more things should glow, don’t you think?
definitely…love cat’s eyes that glow in the dark as well.. they give me shivers..
I like those glow-in-the-dark stars you can stick to the wall and ceiling. 🙂
love those as well…and love fireworks… a symphony of light when well done..
I like the ones we have over here, [uk], sunk in the middle of the road. they are reflectors which we have been calling cat’s eyes for generations. They make dark unlit roads look as if there is a string of beads on the road. Do other countries have those?
we don’t have them…sounds really cool… we only have those yellow bands that stick out from the road with some reflectors on them…and everyone drives them over…looks pitiful after a while…
I’ve only seen those on one or two roads, and you are right, they get “beat up” in a hurry. We mostly have the glass/hard plastic reflectors, and depending on the state they can be really really plentiful! (and helpful at times!)
Yawn morning all from Oz…coffee barkeep (that sounds so wrong but at 6.30am I aint having a beer lol), looking forward to some good reading over the days
ha – good morning adrian…enjoy your coffee
Would the bartender kindly delete Misky 103? I hit enter by accident, and the field with the URL was already filled in. I offering up Howling At The Moon
done…
Sometimes as poets the things ‘we breathe in and suck up’ take us by surprise …. hence my offering for the drinking poets tonight ….
ha..i see what you mean…ugh..
ok…can’t keep my eyes open any longer.. in fact feel quite sick…have a sore throat and my nose is running (and red…) and before i strew all the germs all across the pub..i better get some sleep… see you tomorrow…
i hope you feel better soon claudia…get some rest…good night.
Too much walking across countries and hobnobbing with disease-bearing urban dwellers, I bet ;_) —get some rest Claudia, and hope you feel better in the morning.
Heading home from work, will catch up with everyone later tonight!
Just had time to check in and forgot to stop in the pub and say “Hi, y’all” Had errands, and a drive to Corpus, and now I’m back and ready to read. Left a little waspy ditty on Beachanny By The Sea. It’s not serious but once in a while one has to put up a little bit of fun. Hope you’re having a lovely day. We avoided storms here though there were several and it’s a glorious beach day! Wish y’all were here!
def a fun piece gay…just dont step on him…
had fun with it today, all that talk of poets breathing it in… had to share “Bass Player at The Horse You Came In On” … If you ever visit the old heart of Baltimore – you’ll know 🙂
http://www.presssendpoetry.com/2010/07/bass-player-at-horse-you-came-in-on.html
Well, I had hoped to write a new poem today for the pub but life kicked my butt so I’m linking to my latest instead.
Cheers, poets!
life will def do that at times….glad you came anyway…smiles.
Having recently received Natasha Head’s new poetry collection, ‘Nothing Left to Lose,’
I decided to write a poem in praise of her work, and also as a ‘thankyou’ for all the support and encouragement she offers to her fellow poets, both here at dVerse Poets, and on many other sites. Hope you’ll all order a copy of her excellent new publication. Here’s the link to my poem :http://bit.ly/GBdjLk
Kind regards to all at dVerse Poets, James.
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman” –Wallace Stevens
My, my–us saucy poets!
Yeah, this poet slaps the world the way a woman slaps a man who looks at her like that. (Just kidding–one of my fave Stevens quotes–but then they’re all my fave Stevens quotes.)
haha…i would not put it …i mean…i knew you were kidding…smiles….
It has been a long and tough road lately so I haven’t had much time to be active, but things are starting to look up. I’ve posted one I wrote a little while ago.
great to see you man…enjoyed your piece earlier…
I’m baaaack! I missed the pub…really thirsty now, it’s been a long, dry spell!
Mocha Frappicino? Or something bit stronger?
hey all been out on the trail…enjoying some good stuff tonight…man we packed up fast…keep em coming…we still have 29 hours to go…smiles.
Break time for me but I’ll be back later for some more of the par-tayin. Like the boss says, keep em coming, we’ll be here all night, and then some.
Oh, my Claudia, your intro made me hungry. Wonderful welcoming message. I’ll be reading a few of my faves this week. Time and circumstance are keeping me from linking up but I can’t go a week without poetry. It looks like you have a fabulous turnout tonight. The hottest pub in town.
🙂
still pouting that you are busy…smiles.
No pouting, Brian. I’m enjoying reading here and there. Love your poem tonight.
thank you ma’am…smiles.
Claudia lends poetic class to hosting; thanks. I came late, offered up a short 55 that has mostly been unread, and revel in the photography adventures today, and the great visit with my little brother.
I will check it out, Glenn. I hate the idea of you writing anything that has gone mostly unread. That is tragic.
be over in a few minutes…just coming back from a family break…
Just got home from Chuck E. Cheese, myself. 🙂 Don’t worry; I took the family. I wasn’t just hanging out there alone.
haha sure shawna…lol….cool…the closest one to here is an hour away but we go occassionally….i love to play
Ours just got a new little carousel. My two-year-old wanted to ride, and she kept patting the horse behind her for me to climb on. The thing is tiny, Brian! The thought of me climbing up on that horse cracked me up. 🙂
lol…the things we do for love…and our children…smiles.
Well I didn’t get ON the thing. 🙂 … But I considered it.
The number 40…the time of trial and testing has held true. Open Link Night is still standing strong! Thank you for keeping the doors open and allowing all forms of poetry to breathe in the pub!
alright poets…grabbing 144 & 145 and off to bed…i am chaperoning the 3rd grade to the Shakespeare Theatre to see a Midsummer Nights Dream tomorrow…i will check in tomorrow morning though…good night.
be careful not to get some of that magical juice on your eyelids…just saying..smiles..have fun with the kids!
Whew– I’m at 145 tonight– later than I hoped, but glad to be part of the crowd! My piece is a bit different for me… not sure i like it, but there it is, trying something a bit different. Will be around tomorrow to start reading! 🙂
Hi, I have got myself into the crowd ! i have linked in a slightly different kind of a poem…could call it ‘ chemistry in poetry’…hope you like it!
Poetry is always close to one’s soul…
good morning…just a short status update..i’m really sick now…staying in bed and try to do a bit of office work on my laptop in clear moments…also a bit of OLN commenting…but will need a bit more time to get around…sneeze…cough…smiles…
Get better quick!
{I like to say that, even though we all know how long these things wreak their havoc on our sinuses and bronchiols 😦 }
ack sorry claudia….do get some rest…and chicken noodle soup…smiles…
Tired my second post ever with audio. I was happier with the first.
Does wallowing sometimes in grief count as being hungry and in love with life?
good morning everyone..enjoyed the overnights…about to head over to the school…will check in shortly….
About halfway through the list. So far, I think my favorite is “The Road to Safi Beach”: http://www.takooba.co.uk/wordpress/2012/02/24/the-road-to-safi-beach-takooba/
alright…survived the field trip…barely…smiles….got some catching up to do…first time online today…
Love what you have to say here, Claudia! And have submitted a slightly tongue-in-cheek piece written for poetry month.