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Yes, we need to clean a bit, rest a bit, unwind and get ready for a new year.
At a time like this, it’s good to look back a bit. There has been new poets joining, there have been new ones joining. Also there have been some changes behind the bar, and we have given opportunities to write three times a week.
We have also given the opportunity for guest appearances behind the bar.
On the other hand we have removed the bartalk. The chit-chat on anything about poetry, maybe on how to improve our writing, or sharing knowledge about our favorite poets.
During the autumn we have gradually started to collect poetry for a new dVerse anthology. Many of you are already contributors and have accepted to be included. We will continue a bit longer, so there will be a few more opportunities to become part of this fantastic collaboration.
So not I would like to leave the word with you:
Please tell us what we should keep, and what should change (or keep unchanged).
If you want, please share with us also what you want to learn (or maybe teach us).
We will be back with a Quadrille on January 2. That’s the best start of a new year we can offer.
Or maybe just share a micropoem in the comment field.
dVerse 
So we have a clearing of all the leftover drinks, we have icecold beer, tepid wine, and there is a dusty bottle of tequila we want to empty tonight… come tell me what your cravings are.
Love Leonard Cohen. And yes we need to rest more in this fast pace lives we find ourselves in. Be well
Leonard Cohen is a great inspiration… I always find something good in his texts.
Yes I agree
Thank you Bjorn and everyone for this lovely pub. Even though I don’t come in often I am thankful for it when I am. For me writing and reading thoughtfully takes a lot of time, so I appreciate the short stuff, like the quadrille. I hope you all have a wonderful break, joyous holidays and a stellar new year. I look forward to seeing you back here then! xx
I love to be able to provide a varied set of prompts… to cater for prose with the haibun, the short ones with the quadrille, as well as the ones that are free or more challenging… I hope that you will find your way here even more during next year.
Thank you Björn and all the team for hosting so many wonderful evenings here at the bar. I only discovered dVerse in September and enjoy taking part and getting to know so many talented poets and lovely people here. I usually only have time to drop by once or twice a week and I love the haibun and quadrille evenings especially. I wish you all a wonderful festive season and a happy, healthy and creative new year! xxx
When I first discovered dVerse it was so much fun to learn and to learn o know all the poets from around the world. So nice to get to know you Xenia.
Same here Björn, I shall raise a glass to your good health :o)
Cheers
Cheers (klinking glass sounds) :o)
For me dVerse and other prompts are almost like an online workshop…. I learn all the time, from reading and commenting, from writing and receiving comments and from writing the prompts. Thank you so much for all your help, and I hope you have also been helped in your poetry.
Thank you all, d’Verse! So blessed to have found such a warm and delightful company of poets. So the pub is closing. You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here. There is so much that is right here, the attitude driving it most of all. I hope my contributions have been in line. If it’s no quite last round, I’d like to buy one for Mr Linky, for all his good work in keeping us connected. The only thing i can imagine wanting, is a little more critique and discussion of the form and mechanics of writing, though maybe this isn’t the right place for such.
Here’s to all of you, happy holidays, may your writing ever improve.
-Eric, from erbiage
Hi Eric, when we first started the Pub in 2011, we tried critique but it just didn’t happen. I think many felt unsure of their own poetry, let alone able to critique others. Anyone interested in critique might want to go back to an early post by Luke Prater. It gives a wonderful “how to.” He used to run a closed critique group on Facebook and I found it so very helpful, but that is an incredibly time-consuming project. If anyone has the desire to start one, I would love to join but just can’t commit the time, at least right now. I have another novel brewing.
Here is the link to Luke’s post. You have to read down a bit to get to the good stuff:
https://dversepoets.com/2011/07/21/meeting-the-bar-crit-friday/
Thanks for the link victoria
I find that the best place for critique and deeper discussion is between 2 poets as it needs time to build trust and respect for each other work ~ A public blog may not be the best place to find this deep dive into one’s work as for one: it is public, and the feedback may not be welcome specially if its coming from someone who is not familiar with your work and may not be able to phrase it in a constructive and positive way.
Hello, sorry for chipping in late… to me I think there is critique here, but only in the sense that poems get interpreted, that you see what’s good. Anytime my poems are received by short comments such as great or well penned, you know it’s just politeness, but if the comments are precise and people tell you how they have been affected you have received something to build upon. What’s not said is usually where the point is missed…
There is also the golden rule of giving critique to receive some… but as stated above that would be better to done once you have established a personal connection.
However you may spend this season, best wishes to you and Happy New Year. Thank you, Bjorn and team members and everyone who visits here to share poetry. Rest well, celebrate joyfully…and wouldn’t it be great if, when we return, each of us could bring a new (or returning) poet to join us at the poetry bar?
Bjorn, I don’t drink much, but a little champagne toast to welcome a new year of writing would be great! Thank you.
I feel a little sad because I had such high hopes to play with poetry and hang with all of you fabulous poets this year. However when the herpes virus infected my mother-in-law, my wife and I were sent into overdrive and became ‘all in’ caregivers.
She is doing much better but the path to a full recovery is a long and interesting journey. I have a whole new appreciation for the mind and the wonders that live within us.
Thank you Bjorn and all for another great year and for helping us raise the bar on our poetry.
As you might imagine I have not taken the time to write much poetry since the end of April but I did just write this micro poem to take the chill out of our cold winter day – I hope you enjoy.
a beautiful thing ~
to witness warm breath against
a blue winter sky
but even better, to feel
a lovers breath on your ear
Thank you for the lovely poem Delaina ~ Happy to read that she is doing much better and hope to see you hang around the pub next year ~
This is wonderful Delaina, I hope to hear your voice more at the pub during next year, there is always space for you at the bar.
Thanks for choosing Leonard Cohen for this. Happy Holidays everyone!
Happy Holidays… who would have expected that it would have been George Michael that would give us the last song of the year.
So sad.
Looking forward to the new year and further challenges.
There will be… there is a lot of new challenges being created as we speak.
I think you have all been lovely. I only found the bar in November and it has been such a welcoming place to be and a very good place to learn from people with a great deal of wit and wisdom. Love to you all wherever you may be. I look forward to being part of your 2017. XXXXXX
This is the wonder of the pub,… the people who find their way into the pub. I hope that you will continue to frequent the pub, and see some of the old timers rejoining.
Goodbye, fare thee well,
Parting is such sweet sorrow –
New Year, phoenix-like!
Great one. We love the Phoenix
Happy holidays to all, and I hope to show myself more as a bar guest om the coming year and participate more.
I wouldnt really change stuff, I enjoy all you fine folk do and create!
Love to have you here… your voice is a welcome addition every time you are passing…
Happy Holidays! I took a break from writing since August. All’s good I was off biking and such. Ready to write after the break, it would be nice to be included in the anthology but don’t know if I’ve written here long enough. I’ll be back to try. In the meantime, I’m writing on my own maybe to share some day.
I don’t mind the bar talk but would love to talk more about poetry and try different forms. For me, trying new things makes me a better poet! I would also like to see us write about (or share with you, maybe as a guest host) some image prompts. I miss writing poems about images, it can be fun and I like to see what people come up with. An image with a form can be even more fun.
Have the best holidays and I hope we find some inner peace in the New Year.
Love, Bekkie
The poems for the anthology is selected from the poems in the linkup… so just write and linkup and you might be a part of the anthology… Image prompts is something we are considering (especially the poetic prompts), but the best thing is to use it to stage a certain artist, and it takes some time to get a permission etc. Any tips on good artists are welcome.
There is plenty of art that is okay to use that’s online especially original art. I’ve been wanting to offer a prompt weekly on CP but in my case an animated GIF file. I haven’t because everyone is already busy writing and I didn’t want to step on anyone’s toes. (If that’s even possible. Lol!) I used to have a writing community on g+ where I had members write about different GIF images and they seemed to like it. I hope you do offer some image prompts I miss them since Mag. I do have some suggestions so when the time comes let me know. Thanks for your feedback Bjorn I’ll be writing with you this year for sure! Hugs!
Delighted to see that the d’Schedule is updated. I find that very useful. Happy Christmas to everyone!
Glaedilig Jul Marylin.
Mange tak, Bjorne!
Friends of afar linked
by captivation, allure,
love of poetry
I love the geographical aspect too… from all around the world we come.
This is such a wonderful thing! Being from the US I often feel isolated from the global community, (we are so out of touch with ourselves, how can we possibly connect with others?). But this pub offers that, in spades! I’d love to hear more about your places, your cultures, how the where has shaped the who…
I hope we can provide even more of that… Myself coming from a tiny country I have always felt the need to connect to other countries… But I guess that when you are in the US with all your fifty states there is a difference.
I especially love the Quadrille and open mic nights, but I love being introduced to new forms and the fun challenges. I very much appreciate thu Pub!
The Quadrille is one of our most successful features. To say it short is such fun….
It is! Happy holidays. 💜
Thanks to Bjorn and all for running the pub so beautifully throughout the year. I’m looking forward to 2017, although I may only participate in Quadrille Monday for awhile. As some of you may have picked up from my poems about memoir writing, that’s what I’ve been working on and will continue to focus on in 2017. I like the Quadrille because who doesn’t have time for 44 words? Plus they are quick and easy to read with the time commitment I’m able to make. Another favorite dVerse feature is the Form for All. I love learning new forms, though in 2017 I don’t know that I’ll have time to participate in them. I was thinking that it could be fun to do a type of Throwback Thursday or maybe Wayback Wednesday and repost old lessons that some of the new participants haven’t seen. There are a lot of great lessons in the archives here, but I don’t think people tend to look up archives on blogs so much. Anyway, here’s hoping everyone has a Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and a blessed holiday season. Peace, Linda
We have tried to do that every now and then… at least putting in some references to the past… and since researching a form can take some time, we might do that a few time. When I first started writing for dVerse I did a lot of research in the past, and it was a great way to catch up… Maybe I will try to create a page with links to all the old forms so we can have it as a reference…
Hello everyone, I’ve been blindsided by life, extra tasks have tipped the precarious balance between writing and all the rest. That’s why it’s Wednesday evening and I’m just seeing the Monday post. I am so happy to have discovered dVerse and look forward to 2017. I am very grateful for those who keep the bar going and everyone else who joins in with inspiring poetry. Happy Holidays!
We try to have a new prompt coming up on a regular schedule… and if you want to get a little forewarning I know that some of the bartenders write their poem a little bit before… I actually used that before I became a bartender myself. Smiles.
Thanks for the tip 🙂 I was wondering (in a vague way) how people came up with their poetry so fast. Cheers!
Hey All
I just wanted tobsay how very welcoming this place is for a part time scribbler like me…missed the last prompt as it was just full on work..
Now chilling with family in West Yorkshire and have a plentiful supply of single malts to while away the days. Thanks for all the support. I wouldn’t change a thing as I think it serves it’s purpose.
Happy Holidays one and all
Slainte.
Slainte back Paul… It’s such a welcome thing when someone new find their way to the bar… We still have a week until the next prompt… Hope to see you Monday 2.
Thank you, Bjorn, and the wonderful team at dVerse, for your contribution to keeping the joy of poetry alive online. I may not get here as often as I would like, but deeply admire the work you do on this site. I will make it a point to stop by oftener in the new year. I sort of went inwards for a bit, in response to our political reality. Time to emerge and carry on. Have a restorative holiday and see you in the new year. We shall write on!
I felt the sorrow of what’s happening in politics (not just in the US, but in many other places)… but that is when poetry is most dearly needed… I just hope that we can get all the voices here, as there is a tendency that we form a bubble….
Happy New Year to all. I have been a bit MIA, taking some time off of poeming to spend time with family. Right now I am in my Happy Place, Lake Tahoe, and sending you all some Beautiful Blue to infuse the new year with joy and hope. Looking forward to getting back on a regular writing schedule after the first of the year. 😉
May merry and bright days continue, and may 2017 be kind to all. ❤
Happy new year wishes sent back to you