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!
Happy OLN everyone! 🙂
Happy birthday dear Toni~ You are in good company with those poets ~
Wishing you all a wonderful day and OLN ~
Thank you Grace!
Happy Birthday, Toni ❤️
Thank you! ❤
Yes, that’s an awesome list to be part of!
Happy OLN folks. Now is your day to pull out your poem and post it – your choice. Let it shine!
Happy birthday, lovely Toni!
Thank you lovely Kim!
And I must apologize – I forgot to add Rosemary Nissen-Wade to the November list – Nov. 11 !!!!
Happy birthday Toni! Thanks for hosting. I hope my post doesn’t pull the mood of the pub down!
Write what you must, viv.
Thank you 🙂
Happy birthday, Toni. 🙂
Thank you Shawna!
Mine is Nov 19th.
Whoo hoo! Happy birthday to you in advance!
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!
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
Happy Birthday! Sweet Blessings & Much Love on your special day, Deborah
Thank you!
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
I love it when Eivor writes.
Happy birthday Toni, a bit late, the concert took a bit long. Still on my way home commenting on the subway
Thank you Bjorn. so glad you had a concert to go to and enjoy!
Cheers for hosting Toni and have the happiest of birthdays – or else! :o]
Anna :o]
Thank you Anna!
Happy Birthday!
Thank you!
AND another Poet’s Birthday in November – Alison Hankinson….Happy birthday!
Happy birthday, Toni, and thank you for hosting!
Thank you Frank!
Good Evening, Poets! Happy Birthday, Toni! My birthday is November 11–yet another Veterans/Armistice/Observance day baby! 😆
Happy birthday Frank! 🙂
Thanks, Toni! Same to you!
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
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. 🙂
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/
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! 🙂
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
Thank you Laura
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. 🙂
Your work is always worth reading!
Thank you!
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. 🙂
Happy Birthday to all the November birthday people! I’m just getting to this. I will catch up with the reading in a bit. 🙂
Thank you Merril. enjoy!
I loved what I could read yesterday evening, I will catch up later during the weekend… The week has been intense…
Hi Toni, Hi Everyone,
A belated happy birthday to you ☺
Pat
Thank you Pat!