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Hello Poets and friends,
As you might have understood or heard we have made a few changes for Open Link.
- We have added an optional mini-prompt that you can use if you want (see below)
- This is a live edition, but we will only have one opportunity to join (on Saturday)
- I will try to run this event on teams instead.
The reason is that we have felt that participation on Open Link has declined and we want to make sure that as many as possible join with one poem.
Mini-prompt
Consider this line from Emily Dickenson’s poem:
“Frequently the wood are pink —”
from that line I used AI to create an image.
If you choose to use the optional prompt, you can use the line, the AI work, both or just one.
You can still link up any one poem you want
When you have linked up the poem you can read and comment as usual, and you are welcome to join us on a live session at 10 AM New York Time
This time I will try to use teams instead of google meet so we can go beyond the one hour and maybe even record the session.
dVerse 
Hello and welcome all, today I serve my freshly made sourdough foccacio with a mixed board of charcuteries, olives and cheese. To drink I have an excellent cava, or your choice of sparkling water.
Of course we have all the usual on tap and in shotglasses.
Your menu sounds awesome! Cava and focaccia with charcuterie, olives and cheese are my jam! Thanks for the invite to OLN and I look forward to reading lots of wonderful poems.
Good evening Bjorn and all!
I would love to try the freshly made sourdough foccacio! Looking forward to Live event on Saturday 😀
I do to… and I like to be able to respond here to everyone linking up to the prompt.
Hi Björn. I would love to try cava.
I would also like to thank everyone for the wonderful response to the poetics this week. Loved all the poems! I had a wonderful time globe-trotting from my home.
I can understand why many of you don’t like living in cities. But in developing countries like mine, most rural communities still lack basic amenities like good education, health, 24×7 electricity and job opportunities. Though smaller cities and towns are somewhat able to strike the right balance.
As Kim of Glover Gardens mentioned dVerse is truly diverse and that diversity is what brings us together.
Heartfelt thanks once again. ❤️
Hello, and cava it is. I did enjoy the prompt and as I mentionened on Oloriel’s prompt I remember when we had her guest prompting on suburbia, which works as balance to the city (and which is how many of us live these days)
Thank you. Yes, one has to strike a balance.
Yes, I can relate. I used to travel a lot. And now I let my mind travel and my soul with all your awesome poems!
Thank you for the shout-out and the validation! I feel like I have found “my people”. 🙂
You are welcome. May our tribe grow. 🤗
Hello Björn and everyone! The foccacio sounds great, Björn, and a cava too! Yummy and I’m in dire need of nourishment! (Thank you!) I’m still revising an old poem but will have it up shortly. 🙂
I find that sometimes OLN is a great opportunity to revise an old poem too… but today I wrote one for the mini-prompt…
Cava and foccacia coming up.
Just stopping in to say hello.👋🏻
Hello 👋👋👋
Thanks so much, Bjorne. I appreciate all you’re doing for the poets in the community. I’ll see you all on Saturday morning.
That will be nice… (afternoon here)
Just found time to stop by Bjorn for a quick link up but nothing to eat or drink before bed – back tomorrow though to read
I will now get around a second time… look forward to read yours.
I hope I can make it, weekend is always family time!
Would love to meet some of you live.
same here, but I manage to sneak out a bit… you can listen in with a mobile I think if you have the app installed.
I love cava ~~~ last had it in Barcelona way back in 2014! I wrote the poem I posted in 2012 and encored it in 2021!! Folks seemed to enjoy it. Cheers.
Cava goes well and is less expensive than champagen
Evening, Bjorn and everyone! Work hours for me, so looking forward to some reading. I could also contribute with the food, because I spent a good 3 hours today making ‘podvarak’ (Serbian sour cabbage dish ) and none in the household except me wants to eat it ( there is marinated steaks, and a giant bowl of creamy mashed potatoes too), after I thought it would be the perfect food to wait for the announced snow.
That sounds delicious… I make my own sourkraut, so this could be an alternative, I have a recipe for a hungarian dish with paprika, saurkraut, rice and egg that I love… good food for cold days.
Good Evening, poets! Thanks, Bjorn, for hosting tonight’s Open Link evening! I’ll help myself to a bottle of my usual! 😉
Yes we always have your special one here at the bar.
Mabuhi, Björn! Thank you for hosting. Sourdough foccacio, olives and cheese for me! It’s a busy time here in Cebu. Raincheck on OLN. Would be cool to watch/listen to the recording for those who might not be able to participate this time. Pit Señor! 💜
I hope it will be possible next time… it is fun to meat live.
Good morning poets and thank you for the prompt, Björn, which was very helpful, as I was away from home at the theatre to watch The Woman in Black. We got home late, so I’m trying to catch up with reading and commenting this morning, I’ll see you at OLN live in Saturday, when I hope to read my poem.
I have a lot to catch up with now when I can sit down after a very cold morning here (-15)
Yikes! -15 – we only have -4. It snowed yesterday and after the theatre everything had frozen. By the time we got home, it was too late. See you on Saturday for OLN Live.
Of course you make Sourdough Björn – it is after all a poem in bread…I hope there is som left for my breakfast and I hope to see you tomorrow!
Of course, we have always freshe sourdough
Hi all, Sourdough, cheese, and a whiskey too, how good is that? Thank you Bjorn, looking forward to tomorrow night (my time of course) 🙂
Of course, whiskey goes with anythin 🙂 look forward to see you.
Hello! I’ve just linked this morning, as yesterday turned out too busy with no heat here in the morning (repaired now), and then a long lunch with a friend I haven’t seen in three years.
I will catch up with reading over the weekend, and I should be there tomorrow live.
Your sourdough focaccia sounds great! I’m making focaccia that is not sour dough but regular yeast dough right now.
No heat sounds bad… here it would be a disaster as it has been very cold today.
It was cold here, too, so fortunately it was only a few hours without heat, and before the snow. It was 16 F when I woke up and discovered the heat wasn’t working.
Hello Bjorn and All. Only a day late to party. Hoping to see peeps at LIVE OLN tomorrow (Saturday.)
and here I am another day late to say hello….
We just finished the LIVE session. How fun it was 🙂 I downloaded the Teams app and will try to show up a little early for the next one to see if I can see the menu items you were talking about.
Evening, Bjorn and fellow poets. I finally got around to responding to Laura’s earlier prompt – Last Year’s First Eleven. It was a fun way to look back at some of the poems I posted this year.
I will set my alarm for the morning. Hopefully this time I will be more determined to get up and hear your poems.
Well let us see how many comes in… I will get out on the trail and do the final visits before we start.
12 minutes till start
Thank you for hosting the live event, Bjorn. You did a great job.
Thank you… it was the largest event ever so iit was really fun.
Yes, Bjorn, you did a wonderful job.
FABULOUS LIVE session with 20 people attending from the following places around the globe:
UK, Mexico, Sweden, US, Trinidad-Tobago, Pakistan, Australia, Germany, Finland, and India!!!!
Lillian, who was in Mexico? Also Netherlands (Jann).
Also, one person who didn’t read was there from Finland. (Sorry, forgot her name.)
p.s. Jan is in Netherlands. Nefertime is in Finland.
Thank you for hosting this (morning). This is the first time my schedule permitted me to join in! It was good to see and hear from the d’Verse poets. As someone there said, d”Verse is a place to learn and practice poeming, it’s a great site.
Good to see you and hear you, D. When I started my blog in 2018 I knew nothing about writing poetry. I didn’t even know what a haibun was. The gracious and helpful poets at dVerse have seen me take baby steps and continue to toddle along.
It was good to see and hear you! Haibun was just one of the forms new to me, and my devices still redline it as a non-word. One of the things I like about the book I read from though is its naivete, I just free-formed my way through with no knowledge of specific forms; each poem decided its own style. I do remember paying attention to syllables in that one though; each line is either 5 or 7 syllables.
For what it’s worth, you seem like a pretty advanced toddler. Write on!
Poetry is a wonderful adventure, isn’t it. I love it that we poets can gather and share comaradarie (sp?) online through written ways and with the live readings. Poetry saved me. When I retired in 2018 it filled a gap and has turned into a passion. Thanks very much, D, hope you are enjoying your weekend.
This was great, thanks a lot again!
Great hosting, Björn.
And I love poems being read out loud, that’s what they are there for in my view. Hence my passion to learning them by heart and reciting them. 😀
I really loved the session yesterday and sp great to have you onboard.