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I hope you all had a wonderful holiday break.
Fact is, I’m terribly excited to open the OpenLinkNight doors again and have goosebumps as I turn the keys.
It has been a wonderful break and I enjoyed the time that I spent with family and friends, with biking, Museum visits, painting, reading, cooking and and and….
but one evening, I sat in the pub, in the half-dark, read through a few poems and comments, lit a candle, polished some glasses, and pssshhhh… was there something…? just the wind, smiles
yep, I missed the voices, your voices, the busy pouring in, the hugs and laughter and friendship.
Welcome to our first OpenLinkNight in the new year – my name is Claudia and… let’s get the party started…
Enjoy visiting others, click through the links, meet some new people, comment on other’s work and keep the conversation going…
If you’re here for the first time… this is how it works
- Say hello in the comments if you like
- Click on the Mr. Linky button below, fill in your name and direct URL to your poem
- Visit others who have linked up as well and leave them a comment so they know you have been there
- If you like, promote the pieces you enjoyed on social media platforms such as twitter or FB
- Enjoy the atmosphere and have fun out on the trail
dVerse 
it was a good break…and good to be back…
hope everyone is staying warm out there…we were out of school today because of the cold….frigid here….
ready to dig in…so see you out on the trail…
yep… that’s where i’m heading now…
Everyone, I was up all last night and haven’t been to bed yet and need to. I will be sure to stop in to read your poems in the next couple of days. I just don’t have the energy to read and write sensibly at thius point. I hope you understand.Thank you. >KB
Sleep well and come back rested.
we def. understand… rest well
get some rest man….
Oh I enjoyed the break… but it’s fun to have the action back again.. I hope it will be packed.. here we still have no winter.. warmer than ever.. please send us some..
i so want some snow….
ha. all i got is cold…bitter cold….
boiled a pot of water and threw it out the door as a trick for my kids….
when it hit the frigid air it went off like a smoke bomb….
big puffy cloud….
love doing that…we tried last winter with hot chocolate instead of water to see if we could make a dark cloud. Tip of advice, don’t try this at home…at least not to CLOSE to your home…we had chocolate stains on our windows for the rest of the winter 🙂
hahaha i need to try that…
yeah the water made patches of ice on the walk….
Hi Claudia..hope you had great Holidays…I am back to be Wild and Brave as ONE this year…smiles..to ya friend….and a brave year to ya….2
wild and brave sounds good to me… smiles.. welcome back
woot good to see you man….
The first OLN for the year, cheers and thanks for hosting Claudia ~
Happy Tuesdays to all ~
happy tuesday grace!
What a warm welcome! Thanks Claudia.
Missed you (all) too! Happy Open Link Night!
ah it’s good to be back…isn’t it… smiles
hiya ladies….good to see you both….
Good afternoon/evening from balmy (-27C degrees wind chill) upstate New York, Claudia and friends. Wonderful we can all get together again. Don’t mind me hugging and huddling with ya’ll tonight. Just trying to keep warm. How are YOU doing Brian?
heck… this is really cold… i’ve heard about it in the news… over here we have spring temperatures… but who knows if there’s a cold front waiting to hit us as well..
frigid man…frigid….we were out of school today and already 2 hours late tomorrow…no precip, which makes it more endurable….but icy….
with the wind-chill, we had -46 (celcius) yesterday. Gotta love Canada…
dude…ours was only -24
In Ontario we are grinding and bearing the cold ~ we are having – 30+ with the wind chill ~
I’m a first-timer – looking forward to reading all the creative pieces
great to meet you pam….enjoyed your poem… feel free to look around, visit some others…have a drink…chat a bit… warm welcome to you…
hey pamela…welcome to the pub…enjoy your trip around…smiles…
Happy new year everyone! And if you’re in frigid weather, as I am here in NYC, consider keeping at least one sink running slightly. I understand it makes burst pipes less likely.
ugh i hope you’re soon in for warmer temperatures..
yep, cut the water to the outside spigot and drained it….and left a trickle last night….
I’ve been writing a poem a day since the 1st of November, Celtic New Year. So, I have lots and lots of them now. Not that I ever stopped writing…So…here’s a poem that’s a bit older. And I’ll be around a bit more with poems. I missed being around, so here’s to being around.
smiles… here’s to being around… writing a poem a day is cool…
welcome around….good on you for the writing stamina as well…hope you enjoy visiting some of the other poets as well…
good to see you guys again… well, all in the same place that is… smiles.
smiles.. can’t wait to see you hosting for the first time…
yes! Can’t wait :))
anthony in his response to the invite said something about a naked OLN…so i am wondering…hahahaha
Looking forward to seeing some old faces and new word music 🙂
becky.!!
really good to see you
Helloooo!!!! I’ve missed this so much! What an honour, Claudia, to be opening up again for this brand new year! I’m looking forward to sharing, meeting new poets, catching up with the old guard – such fun! Here’s to 2014!
*waves enthusiastically..*
🙂
Claudia delightful to see you at the Pub. Hope your holidays were grand, and the New Year will meet all of your wishes!
cheers to that and right back atcha…
Yay! Glad to be back! Going to chore the cows and horses, and it’s not even THAT cold today! Will be back later to share some poetry, read some poetry and chat with you all.
one thing i remember from the time at my uncle’s farm is that it was always warm in the cow stable… i really spent a lot of time there (yep, i was talking to the cows…..smiles)
Barns are warm. And they smell good too! I love talking with our animals. *smiles*
Hurray!!!
smiles
Hi Claudia and everyone! Happy New Year! Great to be among you all again! Can’t wait to pour through the new posts. Hope to make it a bit warmer by doing so! Freezing here! Best wishes to you all!
happy new year… so enjoyed the rhythm of your poem
Thanks Claudia! Really great to feel the interaction again here on Pub night! Was going through withdrawals over the Holidays.
It is good to see everyone again. Happy New Year.
happy new year raven – good to see you as well
So. My website is temporarily dead (hacked by a teenager! Tsk tsk.), but I’ll hop around the open link night all the same. So glad to have D verse to look forward to every week again!
ugh…being hacked is no fun… hopefully all is working properly again soon… appreciate your being around to read mary
oy i hope you get that worked out…and thanks for reading even if you dont link…smiles.
Yay – we’re well and truly back in business … smiles. Happy Tuesday/Wednesday everyone. Thanks for hosting Claudia.
oy… your poem made me ache for snow worse…. smiles… happy tuesday sir!
tony! how are you man?
Good thanks, Brian. Had a quiet Christmas/New Year; not much writing, but feeling refreshed now … smiles
good stuff….
we were on the road a bit but got lots of writing in too..
Happy New Year, d’Verse! So glad you’re back 🙂
yep – def. good to be back
Thanks for the warm hello, Claudia. Nice to see everyone here, hopefully keeping warm wherever their home may be. A might bit “nippy” here in New England! Welcome back to all, and happy OLN!
happy OLN ginny… just about to heading over to your place…
Yay, glad you guys are back. Missed you all. Can’t wait to read all the amazing verse that 2014 brings.
heya kathryn! smiles….
YAAAAAAAY!
I can’t even say how rejoiced I was to see that familiar notice in my email again. Hmm, that’s probably not a good thing for a wordsmith to admit huh? Too happy to care! We’re back!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR and HAPPY OLN!
coolio….enjoy your time in the pub…
happy new year…
Hi everybody! A round of poems on me! I hope everybody had a great holiday! I agree with Raivenne, it feels so good to be back! Happy New Year, happy OLN… Now, off to get drunk with words….
good to see you robert…and thanks for stopping over at my place already…i want to see progress pics on the dreds man…make me jealous…ha
LOL Well I have a Loc Journey album on my Facebook account lol the progress pics are there 🙂 The pic on the post is close to my most recent set lol
https://www.facebook.com/BajanPassionPoet/media_set?set=a.10151582859639104.1073741826.624159103&type=1
Claudia, thanks for hosting the first Open Link of the new year. Indeed, the break was good…..but it is also good to be back!!
yes the break was def. good but you should’ve seen how excited i was all day today to open the doors again… smiles
hiya mary…both are good for sure….
hows the weather?
We have had some very, VERY cold weather these past days. Can’t remember when it has been as cold as this. Luckily, as of tomorrow, our temps are headed up once more. I never thought 0 F. would seem warm. Smiles.
ha. i hear you…you might need sun tan lotion…
So nice to be back at the pub. Been missing the crowd too. Good to see you tending bar Claudia, I bet the drinks you serve are filled with magic. So give me a double please.
smiles… good to see you myrna…just coming from your site…enjoyed your poem…
Such fun! Glad open link night is back. Looking forward to reading some great poetry 🙂
good to see you back…be over in a bit….
hey did you link something in?
Thanks 🙂 I’m just getting around to posting my poem for tonite. You beat me to my own blog! lol
Hello, Claudia! Nice to be back and see so many people have already posted.
just coming back humming from the trail… yep… def. cool
ok – bedtime over here for me… will be back in the AM to read and comment… have a wonderful evening everyone…
sleep well claudia….
I’m heading to bed now.. A great night and lots of fine poetry.. And more to read tomorrow
sleep well good sir….
The birth pangs of my poem exhausted me! I promise to come and read tomorrow.
hey Claudia–my computer appears to be dying, so I will not be able to properly join into re-opening festivities. I am hoping to figure it out soon. (Posted this morning from iPhone in apple store–I fear the computer may have felt that it was going home to die!). k.
yikes…hope you get the computer worked out k….
WHoohoo! Howdy Partners! I’ll do some rounds now, and then later after lights out for the fam…I am so happy to be here and see the doors opened wide again!
And what a hearty welcome everyone is presenting to each other, and I must add mine to the frantic mix; I just “did” the holidays (got a cold for Christmas), and wrote very little; hiatus from email, FB & Twitter. It is wonderful to stroll into the warmth of the Pub, hot chocolate for me, please–& I like the idea of holiday hiatus for the site. I do this with my Tacoma Film Club, dark in December & July; works well. I do not fully understand the principles of “critique partners” yet, but surely explications are in the future. Took the OLN opportunity to continue with my Cinemagenic BLACKTHORNE series, up to scene 17, start of Month 5 for it. Thought maybe Claudia or Brian would helm the start-up OLN for 2014; seems appropriate.
Hey, it’s great to be back! Thank you, Claudia and all the other pub-tenders. 🙂
It is good to see you guys back. I hope you all had a great holiday. I will be round to read after I make a good healthy meal for my husband. Happy Open Link to all.
Pamela
Looks like there are two Pamela’s now. I’ll change my name to Pamela 1, lol.
ha. i clicked on her earlier expecting you…smiles…
I missed you too. Haven’t been writing much but was missing being inspired to write funky style. Thank you for coming back and for all you and the dVerse folks do. Happy New Year!
heya maggie…always good to have you here and around…smiles.
The break was like a frozen tundra to me … no inspiration, nothing but blank white unwritten surfaces. SO glad to see everyone here and to be able to participate – yay!
Here in FL I woke up to 27 F degree weather, and we had a high of 40 F, although it was sunny and the sky was a radiant blue. I say, any day that I need to wear sunglasses is a good day, so today has been a good day. I don’t have anything new to offer y’all … but in reading everyone’s comments I saw a common winter theme, so I decided to share a poem I wrote back in October, when it was still summer-like here.
Excited to read everyone’s poems 🙂
yikes…that is cold for florida….
where in florida do you live? we used to live in valrico…outside tampa….
We live just south of Jacksonville and just west of St. Augustine. Right near the St. Johns River in a little city called Orange Park.
oh i love st aug….fun place….used to stop in san sebastian when we were in town….
I have been to Valrico, I have an old college girl friend that lives there.
back later to make the rounds – best to all, and welcome back to the Pub tenders ~
hey M…
This is my first time to visit. It is great to be here.!
glad you are here sabra….smiles.
so cool to see you in the pub sabra
I’ve missed this place – thanks for opening the door Brian and Claudia, and good to see everyone here! During the break I worked on several poems that have been in the draft mode for awhile, some new; it’s going to be a busy year for me, so I will catch up with comments as always in the late of night..we have rain here ;_)
smiles…cool you got some time to clean up a couple drafts…i was looking through mine a bit…i have some drafts that go back 4 years now in my dashboard from when i first started writing poetry….
As you might know, I’m not a “regular” @ diverse Pub…but now that espresso is available, hope to drop by with more frequency.
MUST tell you, my whole Internet experience suffered (slightly) during the holidays, with missing “community” feeling of (necessary) vacation.
Happy, sad, spiritual, ALWAYS thoughtful, what I read in diverse is not only entertaining but an unending source of knowledge. Add to that, dVerse Poets Pub is dessert to my reading dinner.
Thank you to all, especially those most familiar to me, Brian and Claudia. AMEN!
ah you are regular….smiles…
hows that wonderful wife doing steve?
sorry you had to go without community over the break
as ever it is good to see you brother.
smiles… you know how much i appreciate your being around steve
Claudia, a very happy new year to you – the secluded moments of reading poetry that you mentioned here – is such a wonderful thing. I missed reading too – but been very busy lately. I will start reading from tomorrow probably.
nice… great to you see abhra
alright, time to get my beauty rest….good stuff tonight poets…
read all, and commented on those that usually visit and then some
check in tomorrow and see whats going on….
sleep well…
ok… started my morning round…managed to return some comments but have to leave for work quite early today and will continue to read in the evening… happy wednesday to you…
It’s nice to see this familiar place open again. I missed the posts and the people. Happy new year to you, Claudia, and to all. 🙂
I’m glad youu guys are back for 2014. Its gonna a good year for poetry.
Great to see the pub doors open again. Best wishes to all who sup here, for a successful and happy 2014. My contribution to the New Year is here:
http://bit.ly/GBdjLk
happy new year to you as well james
Lovely to see the pub open again! I’m off to read poems now. 😀
we’re really appreciate those that take the time to read….thank you..
most def…thanks for taking time to invest in others misky….
Hello everyone – Happy New Year to you all. I was notified of a Service for next week, so I shall be busy, but I did manage to put something together. After all how could we miss out on the 1st OLN back! Am I tad too excited? 😉
smiles.. yes… i was so excited as well…
you should be getting comfortable with these now that you have a few under your belt…smiles…ah i know each one is completely different…and that is what makes them special as well…i know you will do good….
Happy New Year, y’all! It’s gonna be a great one!
We’re all moved in, the holidays are behind us, and I think I’m ready to get back into the “normal” swing of things. Hoping to get by the pub more often again.
in a way it’s good when things go back to normal… isn’t it
It’s awesome!
good morning….got my coffee and grabbing a few before work
Happy New Year, Claudia! Almost didn’t make it… Cheers!
glad you made it jackie…
Just getting back online after a few Internet-free days (inaccessible, that is). It’s so good to see you back and so many poems to peruse. I’ll do my best to post something before you close those doors and get out on the trail. Can’t promise, though…a few things going on right now.
smiles…hey we need those days eh?
hope you get those few things worked out V….
Thanks, Brian. Things are good. Enjoying 70 degree weather now.
can’t believe i let ya’ll’s opening slip by me, but it’s super good to see ya’ll back; and i’ve got so much stuff going, i’ll probably just visit folks sites without posting anything for a bit; but def great to see ya’ll 🙂
Still working my way throughout Open Link Night – just wanted you to know I didn’t post and run — just been busy with kids. Hope everyone has warmed up a bit – its mid 40’s here today and feels like a heat wave in NC 🙂
this is the first time I’ve been by…seems like a great place to visit, but not sure how the promps work..anyway I wrote a tanka and put it into Mr. Linky and will visit some other folks to see what they’ve done. 🙂