Hello all, Lillian here, happy to be hosting Open Link Night at dVerse, the virtual pub for poets around the globe! AND hoping you’ll join us LIVE today, (Thursday) from 3 to 4 PM EST AND/OR on Saturday, August 26th from 10 to 11 AM EST. Click on the appropriate link below to join us!
Link for Thursday, August 24th from 3 to 4 PM EST. https://meet.google.com/nxd-ibjx-gxk
Link for Saturday, August 26th from 10 to 11 AM EST. https://meet.google.com/zzc-zrkh-bpc
What is OLN and what is OLN LIVE? OLN stands for Open Link Night when we invite you to post a poem of your choosing at Mr. Linky below. There is no particular prompt or length or form.
In addition, if you’d like to come to a LIVE dVerse session, use the video links above that enable you to join poets from around the globe for one hour on Thursday and one hour on Saturday. Everyone is invited to read aloud a poem of their own, or to just listen to others read. It’s such fun to actually put faces and voices together with the names of people whose poems we read at dVerse! But not to worry, if you’re not into that kind of sharing, just stop by and say hello and listen or just post at Mr. Linky and read others’ posts at your leisure. The more the merrier in either venue!
So I must tell all of you what my husband and I were doing in the month of July – which was why I wasn’t posting to dVerse then. We were literally walking through history! We were on three back-to-back-to-back cruises with Celebrity…. starting and ending just outside of Rome. While we enjoyed ship life, we truly enjoyed being in the world of antiquities. In Rome we spent a full day with an archeologist, beginning at the Colosseum. In Athens, we joined throngs of people at the Acropolis. We stood on the actual finish line (a long slab of marble) where the first real Olympics were held in Olympia. We walked the ancient marble slabbed roads of Pompeii; and marveled at the beauty of the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul. We were incredulous to see the sacred island of Delos and the neighborhoods unearthed there. Centuries of time under our shoes. An amazing experience! See some of our photos below.
And now we’re back home in Boston and I’m looking forward to reading your posts here at OLN. I always enjoy the diversity of poems when there’s no particular prompt or format. And I do hope to see many of you at OLN LVE today or Saturday. If you can’t make it right at the starting time, no worries. Drop in when you can! We’ll be there for an hour each day.
New to dVerse? Need to be refreshed on the rules?
Here’s what to do:
- Write a poem and post it to your blog AND add the exact URL for your poem to Mr. Linky below.
- REMEMBER to either TAG dVerse in your post or include a link at the end of your poem that leads readers back to dVerse (https://dversepoets.com).
- If you do not TAG or include a link to dVerse at the end of your post, I will gently remind you to do so. After all, this will increase your readership and others will find dVerse to hopefully join in the fun. If you do not add the TAG or link after my reminder, I will remove your post from Mr. Linky. I do not want to do that! So please do include the TAG or link!
- Do stop by other folks’ poems, which you’ll find on Mr. Linky, and give a quick response to them. Everybody loves to be read!
Photos: left to right, starting at the top row.
* The Acropolis in Greece; from the 5th century BC
* Delos (mythological birthplace of Apollo: some excavations dating to the 1st millenium BC)
* The Hagia Sofia. Completed in 537 AD in then Constantinople. It was an Orthodox church until the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. It was a mosque until 1935; then a museum until 2020; and now a mosque again.
* The finish line at the original site (776 BC) for the Olympics. Interesting to find out that races were run back and forth between this finish line and another slab of marble up the field of grass. In other words, runners ran in a straight line, back and forth.
* A road in Pompeii. Pompeii was destroyed in 79 AD by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
* The Colosseum, completed in 80 AD in Rome.
dVerse 
Now we are on the call.
Good to see you, Bjorn – I do like your hair better tussled a bit! 🙂
Cannot join. Sorry taking Kathy to radiation again we do that daily. I did post a link to a new poem I wrote. Hope you guys have a great live group chat.
We will think about you and Kathy…
🙏🏼❤️
So very glad you got some time off and could join us. I think of you and Kathy quite often. Praying for successful treatment.
Wonderful pictures, Lillian! I’ll be there Saturday.🤗❤️
Yay! Look forward to seeing you then! We had 14 today 🙂 Quite a lively bunch!
What a fun group session we had today! Thank you for hosting, Lillian. You must be tired after all that travel. I loved seeing your photos. It must have been wonderful.
It was a fabulous trip. Quite a group today….I always enjoy hosting OLN LIVE and now that I’ve gotten over my technical hiccups it’s really fun 🙂
You do a great job. We had a very diverse group today.
Hello all! Lillian here….happy to be hosting our two sessions of OLN Live and OLN with Mr. Linky today too! Will get to reading and commenting posts in a bit!
FYI: we had 14 at our OLN LIVE session today from the following places: UK, Jerusalem, Pakistan, Trinidad Tobago, Sweden, Iowa, Boston, Vermont, Washington, Michigan, North Carolina – hmmmm I’m missing some places. Apologies to anyone whose place of abode I’ve missed. It was a lively group!
Hoping to see many of you on Saturday’s OLN LIVE session! Just drop in to watch and listen if you’d prefer not to read.
See you bright and early from the Pacific Time Zone!
Yup, you missed me in New Jersey! It was great to see everyone! 🙂
Apologies!!! Will get it right next time! 🙂
Hahaha. It’s not a big deal! 🙂
Have no idea how my comment went thru .. it’s Helen!
Ah the techno gods sometimes have their own way with us!
Lovely photos of your trip Lilliaan ☺️💕
Thank you! It was an amazing month!
It sounds like you had a great time on your trip, Lillian!
There is a special feeling in seeing those ancient places.
Hi, Lillian, I’ve linked my poem, see you at the meet!
Excellent! See you a bit later this morning!
Thank you Lillian for hosting a lovely “online” ….
Always love doing it!
I love that you had folks from all over the world at your open link session. I am sad to have missed that.
I have shared a poem that was recently on Visual Verse. I look forward to reading what others have shared this morning.
Wishing you all wellness and peace.
Nice to see you here Ali! Maybe next month you can join us at OLN LIVE! It’s always a friendly group and we do it on a Thursday and Saturday now….different times to hit more time zones.
Exemplifying my poem, I missed the live reading, but…See Mr. Linky for my excuse!!!
Good to see you here! Maybe next month you can come to OLN LIVE! The more the merrier!
Is it always on the same day and time?
Yes. Once a month: Thursday from 3 to 4 PM Eastern Standard time; and the following Saturday from 10 to 11 AM Eastern Standard time. If you look at the top of the dVerse page it says d’Team, d’Calendar or something like that. Click on d’Calendar and it will tell you which Thursday OLN LIVE is on and then it’s also the following Saturday.