Hi everyone! Welcome to our OpenLinkNight ! This is your opportunity to link 1 poem of your choice as this is no prompt-day. For those who missed the Mr Linky deadline the past week or this Tuesday’s poetics about “The River” poem, this is also your opportunity to share your poem. I also want to remind you that our Haibun Monday is still open the whole week.
I would like to share a poem by David Whyte:
Above the mountains
the geese turn into
the light again
Painting their
black silhouettes
on an open sky.
Sometimes everything
has to be
inscribed across
the heavens
so you can find
the one line
already written
inside you.
Sometimes it takes
a great sky
to find that
first, bright
and indescribable
wedge of freedom
in your own heart.
Sometimes with
the bones of the black
sticks left when the fire
has gone out
someone has written
something new
in the ashes of your life.
You are not leaving.
Even as the light fades quickly now,
you are arriving.
To join us for Thursday’s OpenLinkNight, which happens every other week, here’s how to join:
See you at the poetry trail. ~Grace~
Björn Rudberg (brudberg) said:
Next week we will be on DST and I can enjoy to have the pub open at 9 PM instead of 8… I will be back in some minutes to read poetry.
Grace said:
Hi Bjorn! It took me a week to get adjusted but I am liking the longer brighter afternoons now ~
Björn Rudberg (brudberg) said:
We will soon have more daylight than we need… 😉
kim881 said:
Good evening, Grace! I’m never sure what to link up on Open Link Night but I do have a poem I wrote today, which I think will do. I’m looking forward to a relaxing read after a busy Thursday.The weekend is on the horizon!
Grace said:
Hi Kim! Here’s to a relaxing weekend for all of us ~ If I am in a rot for topics, I just look back at poetics and write another poem, ha ~
See you at the poetry trail ~
kim881 said:
🙂
Grace said:
Welcome to OLN everyone! Happy Thursday !
frankhubeny said:
Hello, Grace! I’ve added a nonsense poem about monsters.
Grace said:
Sounds like a prompt we can use for Poetics Frank!
sanaarizvi said:
Happy OLN everyone 😀
Grace said:
We appreciate your support Sanaa ~ Happy OLN ~
ladynyo said:
monsters???? LOL! Love OLN and need a laugh today. Weather too cool but beautiful…Winter has finally thawed.
Grace said:
Spring a long way from here but its coming, ha ~ Thanks for joining us Jane ~
ladynyo said:
this and Haibun are my favorite days of the month! LOL! I lead a very boring life….
therisa said:
Hello everyone, hoping you’re a relatively stress-free week, wherever, you may be.
Am sharing a poem that I wrote, during the Furguson, Mo unrest, in 2014. Will admit, it was a dark period, for myself, as well, I was battling a severe bout of agoraphobia that cost me, the entire that year, in my apartment.
Grace said:
Looking forward to it Therisa ~ Thanks for joining us ~
lillian said:
Happy Thursday everyone! I was a tap dancing wunderkid when I was little…giving everyone a taste of that side of me in today’s OLN. 🙂 We leave tomorrow for a long weekend in Florida — a family reunion of shirt tail relatives, as we call them. Since Boston is ignoring spring with very cold temps, it will be lovely to sit pool side in 80+ degrees ! Anyone serving Sangria at the bar today?
Grace said:
Sangria coming up for you Lillian ~ Enjoy your trip and family reunion in Florida ~ Still cold where I am too, smiles ~
lillian said:
🙂
jillys2016 said:
Welcome to Florida, Lillian! A bit chilly on this Friday – only in the 70s in Orlando – hope it is 80s where you are! Jilly
whippetwisdom said:
Happy OLN everyone and thank you for hosting Grace. I love David Whyte’s work and thank you for sharing this beautiful poem here. I have linked a haibun that Eivor wrote yesterday and will swing by to read in a moment.
Grace said:
His reading are good too ~ Thanks for joining us ~
I will hit the trail in a bit ~
whippetwisdom said:
Yes I have heard his readings :o) I will see you on the trail xxx
Dr. Crystal Howe said:
Dear fellow poets, I hope you’ll humor me as I share a song. 😮 Our dVerse Quadrille always contains a form of one word the host chooses. The Q prepared me to write this song, which contains 3 objects. + it’s fun, so I hope you’ll have a listen.
Grace said:
I will be hitting the trail soon Crystal and I will check it out ~ That’s the good thing about OLN – anything goes from monsters to songs ~
Jane Dougherty said:
At the risk of being boring, I posted another villanelle. I don’t see much formal poetry here. Maybe it’s time to add it to the prompts?
Gospel Isosceles said:
That would be a welcome challenge.
Jane Dougherty said:
It’s certainly a challenge. I know I found the whole idea very off-putting until I tried.
Grace said:
We have form challenges every now and then, during MTB, Meeting the Bar. Some people are comfortable with form, while others, prefer free verse ~ I believe we have tried villanelle before but we can certainly try it down the road again ~
Good to have you with us Jane ~
Jane Dougherty said:
I’m not a form maniac, but I think of poetry rather like the plastic arts. You can’t call yourself a good artist just because you produce junk art that people tell you is pretty original, if you haven’t a clue about drawing and perspective. Learning the mechanics of language is part of being a poet, producing something that is universal. That’s how I feel anyway. But I wouldn’t call myself a poet, just a would-be poet.
Grace said:
I agree with you ~ The poetry tools actually help me write free verse “better” as if one is following a beat ~
Jane Dougherty said:
It’s a form of discipline too. Makes you look for the ‘right’ word, not just something that sounds obscure and therefore clever.
Gospel Isosceles said:
I just relate so much — I would think all poets and pursuers of truth would– to the poem you chose here. The search for that one line inscribed on our heart… So beautiful.
Grace said:
Thank you ~ I admire poems that we can all relate to, in one form or another ~
Laura Bloomsbury said:
Sharing a somewhat grim reality piece – a far cry from geese skeining the sky and a sense of I – loved this poem and the blackened sticks verse especially
Grace said:
Thank you for being here Laura ~
charliezero1.wordpress.com said:
No prompt poem today? okay, I will post a link for something special. 🙂
Grace said:
No prompt or form required – just your voice Charlie ~ Thanks for joining us ~
Singledust said:
Nice to see you hosting Grace here today. The poetry you shared was a very inspiring.
Grace said:
Thanks for joining us Gina ~
paul scribbles said:
Hi Folks. Just in from teaching in Glasgow and it’s 11pm here. Long day and so I am maybe going to read a little…maybe write…or maybe just fall asleep 😉 I’ll get to a poem sometime before tomorrow lunch that’s for sure. Love David Whyte. So inspiring.
Grace said:
Have a good night and see you tomorrow Paul ~
paul scribbles said:
Managed a Haiku. Sleep now calls.Back tomorrow for reading.
Faith Unlocked said:
A welcome opportunity to share something prompted by yesterday’s events in Westminster, which connected with the earlier dVerse ‘Impressionism’ linky http://wp.me/p4eHj4-19w
erbiage said:
Hey there everyone. Off tomorrow so my weekend begins now. Yay. Don’t you just love laying downto sleep, knowing the alarm won’t ring?
Grace said:
Nice start to the weekend ~ Enjoy the time without looking at it, smiles ~
erbiage said:
Wrote a few things lately, Had trouble choosing which one. But such is the way of it, right? Lol
-eric
Grace said:
Good to see your muse so energetic ~ One offering only for OLN, smiles ~
Edit said:
Happy Friday everyone! 🙂
Grace said:
Happy Friday !
jillys2016 said:
Hi strangers! Been months since I’ve been at the bar and I have missed you all! I’m on Spring Break for a couple more days, so I look forward to reading a fistfull of the posts and drinking a bit of coffee. Spent this past week hiking and shooting – bleeding the need for creativity! Jilly 🙂
Grace said:
Hello Jilly! Good for you to be hiking and enjoying the spring break !
lovemorestudio said:
Running late, but I’m ’bout to link up now! Thanks for tending Grace!! 🙂
Grace said:
Good to have you here Jason ~ Love your photo~
Bekkie Sanchez said:
Nice poem! I am always a day late and a dollar short. ~sigh~ My offering today is a light-hearted look at the past, from the past.
Got my bike back yesterday after not having it for over a week. I wept with joy. Lol!
I hope everyone has a great weekend! I know I’m going to try. Group hug!
Grace said:
Group hug back to you too Bekkie ~ Enjoy your bike, ha ~
Abhra said:
Hi Grace ~ How have you been? This is such a lovely poem – very heart warming. I have been away from poetry for long but considering to join back.
I missed everyone in here.
Grace said:
Hey Abhra!!!! Good to see you. Hope you and family are okay.
Abhra said:
I am good thanks – slowly getting settled in Melbourne now~ I haven’t had no time to write for months – planning to write more regularly:)
MarinaSofia said:
Nice to have you back, Abhra – and hope you are settling in nicely in Melbourne now and find your way back into writing.