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Hello friends and poets all around the world, welcome to open link night. How have you been? What’s new with your poetic experience?
It’s my first time on Dversepoets to host the mega event. How does it feel? Absolutely exciting, I must say. When we give you a theme – it certainly gives you a direction but also limits your imagination and may stop you from being at your creative best. So here, you speak up – you bring out the best in you. OLN is how I started getting into the layers of this wonderful community and it largely it defines me today.
What is the best part of OLN – When I read a lot of poetry, it helps in both ways – what makes the thought unique, how style supports the heart of the poem, how language makes the effect unforgettable, how I relate to someone else’s emotions and on the contrary, what can ruin the poetry, what mistakes are not to be made.
I have been away from home for a long time – my work took me to places and I shifted on with my family from one place to another. I have seen a lot of life, a lot of culture and climate – and finally I came back home. This weekend I am going to sit back, enjoy poetry. So let’s hear out one another, & share our poetic experiences.
Now, if you are new to Dversepoets, this is what you got to do.
Write 1 poem and post it to your site/blog.
Enter a link to your poem and your name by clicking Mr Linky below.
You will find links to other poets. Read and comment on other poet’s work.
If you are promoting your work on social media, use the tag #dversepoets and we will share you too.
Thank you all. Have fun.
Bar is open, friends – welcome.
Hi Abhra, nice to have you here.. I hope it is not too late where you are 🙂
Ah it’s summer – so I think the time difference is less, 12:30 now. Now I am back home after a long time and not working tomorrow either.
Wonderful.. Here it’s 9PM and still some daylight left.
Hi there everyone,
Just missed the previous OLN, as not long back from my latest adventures in South America… And this new poem is the first I have published since then… There are also some photos of the trip that some of you may enjoy taking a look at also…
Lovely to be back here again at D’verse… A warm welcome to Abhra too, as a first time host and really looking forward to catching up with everyone again and reading some sparkling stuff later tonight….
Thank you – I look forward to reading and specially seeing your photos. Some parts of south America really inspires me a lot.
Welcome as host to Open Link Night – and yes, it must be quite late where you are! It’s Election Day in the UK and, although I don’t currently live there, I still take an interest in the future of that country, especially since I’ll return there in a year or so. So, after much deliberation, I couldn’t resist writing an election-inspired poem… although perhaps inspired is the wrong word…
Aha, election – it has always been satire from how I see – I look forward to reading your piece.
Ah.. we will all follow what happens in the UK..
I will also check the elections in the UK. By now they should know who is in the lead. I will read your poem too.
Good afternoon, Abhra the greatest thing I feel about dVerse is a collection of diverse minds, hearts, and souls of poetry expressed in free spirited different ways of living; and my greatest joy here is reading and getting inspired by those different Uni-verses of being…
But meanwhile duty calls today for an elderly relative birthday.. getting ready for Mother’s day, Rave dance, surrogate mother early day dinners, stores my wife must shop; and a ‘thousand other routine things’ that all folks do these days..
Most of which would not be possible at all; including being here if I still worked
a money job.
So hope to get back sooner than later to do what I love most; to read, to get inspired, and to flow more words of living for now..:)
Yes, I can not agree more – hope you can join in later.
Hi Abhra
Thank you for hosting the bar. Tis just after 8PM here and soon the sun will say Goodnight. Happy to be spending my time tonight with dVerse.
Kind regards
Anna :o]
Hey Anna – thank you.
How grand to have you tending the Pub again, traveling man. I loved all the images you have shared with us on Facebook; your daughter is an impish angel. How interesting to hear from you that your introduction to dVerse community came through OLN. I used to write Flash 55’s for this, & used up a lot of my older poems; lazy perhaps, but I seem to write more readily when given impetus from a prompt. My cinemagenic poems now use OLN for promulgation, since they are a form I invented & do not fit any prompt. I did 12 episodes of THE RIDE, & am up to Episode 38 with BLACKTHORNE. I don’t know how long this streak will last, but I intend to ride it out until the first time the posting is devoid of commenters, or interest.
Glenn, you are such a powerful writer – your words mean a lot to me. Yes, finally a lot of traveling ended and I am happy to be back in my own home after a really long time.
Of course, it’s only just a minutes after noon here, so it is always fun to look west & east over all the time zones where our dVerse poets reside. We don’t seem to have anyone from Australia at the moment; perhaps one day; southern hemisphere folks are down under cool.
Nice to see you hosting, Abhra! Nice to hear that you are back home again as well.. I may be a bit slow in responding to people this week due to life as it is here at the moment, but I will be reading poetry when I can. Looking forward to the many interesting offerings I am sure I will find here.
No problem Mary _ will be back again tomorrow morning.
Thank you for hosting the bar, Abhra, and welcome home!
Hey, thanks – yes, it feels wonderful.
Welcome back Abhra. Its’s not that late here, but I’ve had a stressful couple of days, so I’ll come back to read in the morning.
Thank you….
Hi Abrha! I tended bar for the first time Tuesday and it was so much fun. I am glad you are back and hosting as well. It will be good to be able to communicate with you. It’s about 3:30 PM right now where I am. I’ll be submitting something later. In the meantime, it is always good to read and to find inspiration. 🙂
Wow, I was talking to Glenn earlier and checking if there is anyone joining from further east. Hope you can join in tomorrow.
So I switched from using Internet Explorer as a browser to Chrome, which everyone told me was better. But as it turns out the comment feature on Blogger doesn’t work in Chrome because the “I’m not a robot” test doesn’t show. For Mary’s, I opened IE and posted my comment, but didn’t for the others I read. Technology is supposed to make our lives better and easier, but I find that is often not the case. I might have to write a poem about that, but for today I shared one I wrote during NaPoWriMo. Peace, Linda
I have no problem using Chrome and commenting.. it works fine.
Hmmm, I wonder what my problem is, then. I tried in on three different Blogger sites and it wouldn’t post because I couldn’t verify that I wasn’t a robot. (Oh, perhaps the problem is that I AM a robot. Didn’t think of that.) Or maybe it’s my settings. I’ll check that out. Thanks.
It could be something to do with how your browser accepts cookies.
Have you logged into chrome using your Google ID?
No, I didn’t even know I had a Chrome ID. I’ll check that out. Thanks.
Your normal gmail-id (if you have one).
So that worked as long as I want to comment using my Google ID. Still can’t put in WordPress, which is what I always did from IE. But this does work. Thanks for the help.
Ah.. yes I always use my Google ID to comment.. 🙂
I face some similar problems on blogger too – wordpress works the same – on Mary’s blog, whatever I write first time on comment box, it doesn’t accept and I have to repost.
Sounds like a free for all today. oh! and I just posted a new poem. Check it out.
This will be fun today. 🙂
You make the world a better place. 🙂
Thank you – yes, it is free for all. Hope you enjoy others too!
oh…I surely will. 🙂
I think it’s bedtime here.. I will return in the morning.. some quite intriguing poetry here.
See you tomorrow Bjorn ~
Hi there, It’s been so long since I wrote any poetry and so long since I have visited all the lovely people here at dVerse. I have added my link. A puzzled poem, hope you enjoy! Look forward to reading some great poems tonight/tomorrow.
Good to see you Vanessa ~ its been some time ~
Hello Abhra ~ Good to see you hosting ~ I will not be linking up any new poem but will be visiting some & more ~ Here’s wishing you all Happy Thursday ~
Hey Grace – thanks, not a problem at all…..
I spent all day uninstalling a new but defective dishwasher, taking out snd installing a new garbage disposer. Being a small person and lugging stuff around has me whipped. I’m going to get my husband to do dinner. I will join you all later this evening. I am looking forward to reading and relaxing later on. OLN is always so interesting!
I know.. there are so few fixed ideas.. you can have everything.
it’s good to be back!
Thanks for dropping by ~
Hi Abhra, nice to see you again 🙂 but wow, I don’t know what I linked is the best in me…
It’s what I wrote to Bill’s 8-lined prompt of a couple of weeks ago. Hope that’s ok.
Have to run right now but luckily there is a whole weekend ahead to come back and read, read and read 🙂
I know.. that’s the great thing.. lots of things to read.
Well, I am not saying that everyone does that – but truly OLN has that potential where the poets can really bring out their best.
and yes, I do that often – use some of the old prompts, that I have missed. I liked your piece. Thank you for joining.
Happy to be here
Good to see you here ZQ~
I haven’t been blogging much poetry recently but am always delighted to come by dverse and appreciate the calibre and fount of knowledge of those who run the bar. Thankyou!
It is a great team and wonderful to meet here regularly.
I have been busy of late but trying to keep up with dverse and keeping up with the writing of others. This is a brilliant poetry site and it is great to see standards maintained and enthusiasm as well.
Thank you .. We try our best – great to have so many poets linking up.
I’m finally beginning to feel normal again! Settling into my new place. I shared my 1st poem from 2015 NaPoWriMo. (Fun fact: all of my NaPoWriMo poems contain a line from this poem.)
I’m looking forward to a weekend of kicking back and reading everyone’s poems!
Oh yes April was heavy 😉 I look forward to read yours Barry.
Barry, good to hear that – I hope you enjoy taking the deep dive into poetry again.
Wow. 48 links.. I will go out and do my rounds.. And still a few hours till closing,
Oh yes, I will remember that number, this my first OLN.