Hello all,
Another year is coming to an end and this is the last Open Link for this year. As you know by now we are trying to meet for the first hour of the opening of the bar. I find it so nice to see and listen to you all, and it is something different to really see each other. This is especially true when so many things have been closed to us. Sweden has been a bit more open than many other countries, but that doesn’t mean we have been living without restriction. For almost two years I have been working from home, and I can almost not see a life where I actually have to go to an office (and meet with colleagues on the other side of the world in video meetings). I actually find that I have come closer to people far away while people in my town have drifted away.
The same with you my friends, you are as close to me as my closest neighbor.
Tonight you may link up as usual and we go around and visit each other commenting as usual, but for anyone who wants to join in the live edition just click the lint and join us in a Google meet. Since I will be busy in the live event I might not visit until later during the weekend.
Follow this link to join: https://meet.google.com/cyb-rtob-iks?authuser=0&hs=122
And as always you can link up one poem under Mr Linky, Please provide a link back to dVerse on your site.
Enjoy, have fun and smile.

Hello. welcome all we are live now.
Thanks for hosting, Bjorn. I don’t do the live stuff, but more power to you, all who do. I’ll be around over the weekend to read and comment.
The same with me… but if you want to join it would be great. Just listening to poets read gives so much more.
The link cut, just after Ken’s lovely poem…trying to get back…where I live in the caravan the wifi coverage is awful…so sorry…
Ain, I read your beautiful poem, but the service which hosts your website has consistently been blocked by my security programs and so I am not able to sign up to comment. Just wanted you to know I do read your work and always appreciate your unique voice.
That’s such a lovely thing to say, thank you so much. Am thinking of moving sites, yes.
oh how nice to be back at Open Link night. I am toasting you all, on my last night in Cologne, with a last glass of grey burgundy…
Sounds great… we just had a wonderful live event…
Thank you so much Bjorn and everyone, that was a truly wonderful experience, despite my minor mishaps.
So nice to have you… I think it might be better if you download and install the google meet app on your phone. Saana doesn’t have that good wifi either, but with the app, it works a lot better.
Yes, in theory downloaded..hope to have better connection next time, and probably in new location. But this evening was brilliant and real positive therapy!
Hello Bjorn and All. That was a very fun live event.
It’s getting better and better I think. The reading the discussion everything.
PS brilliant idea, of reading others’ poems.
Thank you for hosting, Björn. It was great to see everyone and chat a bit!
In the New Year I hope to join you all for an Open Link Night Live! Happy Holidays to everyone ❤️☺️
Sounds great…Hope it will work
Hello fellow poets. Again I wish I could have joined the live event but I am grateful to read what others have shared. I appreciate how poetry offers a slowing down and I need that today as I am home recovering from a cold. Thanks for hosting, Bjorn. Wishing everyone a joyful cup of whatever warms your heart most.
Thank you… we had a great time at the bar… hope you can join us next time.
Fun today on OLN Live! I have posted a link here to an unusual poem I wrote 10 years ago, to a prompt on Tess Kincaid’s “Magpie Tales” site. It’s a poem for the Christmas season about a couple of fated lovers. I had forgotten I ever wrote it, so it was interesting for me to rediscover it this afternoon. You will see that Brian Miller, Claudia, and Glenn Butkus all commented when it was originally posted in 2011 — so it’s a bit of d’Verse history, one might say. I promised Merril today that I would bring some tears. It is a happy/sad poem, so it is bittersweet — but satisfying I think.
Indeed… 2011 was a long time… I had not even started my blog then.
Hello! Looking forward to reading everyone’s poetry!
I will finally have the time to read now…
Hi deVerse Friends
I am not wearing my best face presently. Yesterday i had a cauterization procedure done to remove moles and skin tags on my face and neck.
Healing time about one to two weeks.
So it will be a while before i attend any zoom type meetings.
Hoping to attend and read in January
Compliments of the Season to all.
Much💜love
I hope to see you all recovered on the next session.
Hello all! It was wonderful to read other poets’ works today. I couldn’t join the meet because, well, ’twas midnight here 😅. I decided to post a nice poem on hope this time around, as all of us need a cup of it during this pandemic… and I’d personally like a cup of hot chocolate myself! 🙂
We are a global community and it is hard to find a time that fits everyone…
Thank you Bjorn for hosting OLN.
Thank you for joining.
You are welcome, Bjorn. 🙂