Hello my friends and fellow poets. Today it is Open Link Night at dVerse Poets Pub. You are invited to post and link one poem of your choice. There are no prompts for OLN.
There are quite a few poets born in November including yours truly. I Googled and found all manner of poet: ancient, new, English, American, free verse and fussy forms, famous, obscure.
So here we go with the list. See if you can find a familiar name or three:
Edmond Blunden Nov 1
Tommy Makem Nov 4
Lucy Atkin Nov 6
Leonora Speyer Nov 7
Michael John Fles Nov 11
Mary Astel Nov 12
Lady Caroline Lamb Nov 13
Robert Louis Stevenson Nov 13
Heathcote Williams Nov 15
Toni Spencer Nov 16
Thomas Chatterton Nov 20
Derek Mahon Nov 23
Isaac Rosenberg Nov 25
William Cowper Nov 26
Mary Robinson Nov 27
William Blake Nov 28
Philip Sidney Nov 30
So Happy Birthday! If you are also born in November, please let us know. Also if this is your first time posting, let us know that as well.
To join in the party, please read and comment on the links of others – don’t just link and run. Talk to us. This is how we grow our community.
– Post your poem on your webpage.
– Link your poem on Mr. Linky – just the poem you want us to read, not the link for your web page.
– Put a link back to dVerse on your page so others can read this posting
– Invite your friends to post a poem!
– Have fun!
sanaarizvi said:
Happy OLN everyone! 🙂
Grace said:
Happy birthday dear Toni~ You are in good company with those poets ~
Wishing you all a wonderful day and OLN ~
kanzensakura said:
Thank you Grace!
sanaarizvi said:
Happy Birthday, Toni ❤️
kanzensakura said:
Thank you! ❤
kim881 said:
Yes, that’s an awesome list to be part of!
kanzensakura said:
Happy OLN folks. Now is your day to pull out your poem and post it – your choice. Let it shine!
kim881 said:
Happy birthday, lovely Toni!
kanzensakura said:
Thank you lovely Kim!
kanzensakura said:
And I must apologize – I forgot to add Rosemary Nissen-Wade to the November list – Nov. 11 !!!!
Vivian Zems said:
Happy birthday Toni! Thanks for hosting. I hope my post doesn’t pull the mood of the pub down!
erbiage said:
Write what you must, viv.
Vivian Zems said:
Thank you 🙂
Shawna said:
Happy birthday, Toni. 🙂
kanzensakura said:
Thank you Shawna!
annell4 said:
Mine is Nov 19th.
kanzensakura said:
Whoo hoo! Happy birthday to you in advance!
ladynyo said:
Happy Birthday, Toni! You are a spring chicken! I only could recognize about 6, with you included. LOL! And the same to all else here who celebrate in November.
I am resubmitting “Rain” of a few weeks ago. You know when you write a poem that doesn’t really jell? You can’t get past the first and only good line??? Well, I rewrote “Rain” and I am STILL not happy! I guess I will take the advice of William Stafford: “If you write a not so good poem that day? Then lower your standards for that day.” LOL!
kanzensakura said:
Thank you Jane…I just save it to rework it later. that’s the case with my OLN offering today. I’ve been working on this for about 5 years…and still not happy with it! Yeah, I am a spring chicken. I am now doing my walks rollerskating…yeppers. I am
awisewomansjourney said:
Happy Birthday! Sweet Blessings & Much Love on your special day, Deborah
kanzensakura said:
Thank you!
whippetwisdom said:
Happy birthday Toni and thank you for hosting here tonight! I am linking Eivor’s haibun from last week and will swing by in a moment to read :o) xxx
kanzensakura said:
I love it when Eivor writes.
Björn Rudberg (brudberg) said:
Happy birthday Toni, a bit late, the concert took a bit long. Still on my way home commenting on the subway
kanzensakura said:
Thank you Bjorn. so glad you had a concert to go to and enjoy!
hypercryptical said:
Cheers for hosting Toni and have the happiest of birthdays – or else! :o]
Anna :o]
kanzensakura said:
Thank you Anna!
Angela said:
Happy Birthday!
kanzensakura said:
Thank you!
kanzensakura said:
AND another Poet’s Birthday in November – Alison Hankinson….Happy birthday!
Frank Hubeny said:
Happy birthday, Toni, and thank you for hosting!
kanzensakura said:
Thank you Frank!
Frank J. Tassone said:
Good Evening, Poets! Happy Birthday, Toni! My birthday is November 11–yet another Veterans/Armistice/Observance day baby! 😆
kanzensakura said:
Happy birthday Frank! 🙂
Frank J. Tassone said:
Thanks, Toni! Same to you!
erbiage said:
There are a lot of us November angels, happy birthday to you, and put me down for the ninth. Wrote a few but only post one, cuz that’s whatcha do
kanzensakura said:
Happy Birthday Eric! I am loving hearing about all these November Poets! Yeppers, write lots, post one. The prompted days though you can post more than one. 🙂
kanzensakura said:
Time for me to wander off for a bit to get my birthday dinner done! Hubs will be home soon. I will be back later to read and comment. BTW…there are plenty of bottles of bubbly (prosecco and cider) behind the bar. Climb over and help yourselves/
lillian said:
Me thinks I see a very large birthday cake with candles lit on the pub bar tonight! Happy B-day to all the Novembers out there (Toni included!) and my husband too! 🙂
VERY late to the pub — been knitting away trying to finish Christmas gifts…and getting ready for a wonderful weekend visit from my son and his youngest daughter. So — will probably be very late getting a poem up. Happy OLN everyone! 🙂
Laura Bloomsbury said:
Nice, neat collection of names for November poets – quire a number I recognised & has prompted me to search & re-read so thank you for that and many Happy Returns Toni – enjoy your day – and all the other Novemberers
hayesspencer said:
Thank you Laura
Colin Lee said:
Happy birthday, Toni sensei!
While I was supposed to finish an ode prompted by Frank, I couldn’t help but started on a series of real-life stories. I linked a lengthy (sorry!) one I wrote last night; hope it’s worthwhile to those who can use a bedtime story. 🙂
hayesspencer said:
Your work is always worth reading!
Colin Lee said:
Thank you!
Arcadia Maria said:
Hello everyone. The poem I posted took me less than five minutes to write for my weekly post. Haha. Let me know what you think. 🙂
merrildsmith said:
Happy Birthday to all the November birthday people! I’m just getting to this. I will catch up with the reading in a bit. 🙂
hayesspencer said:
Thank you Merril. enjoy!
Björn Rudberg (brudberg) said:
I loved what I could read yesterday evening, I will catch up later during the weekend… The week has been intense…
jazzytower said:
Hi Toni, Hi Everyone,
A belated happy birthday to you ☺
Pat
hayesspencer said:
Thank you Pat!