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Welcome to OpenLinkNight everyone! As you know, OpenLinkNight is your opportunity to share 1 poem of your choice. If you missed the Mr Linky deadline in our previous prompts, this is the time to share your poem. As was noted here, we are implementing 2 changes for the 2024 OpenLinkNight.

1.LIVE meeting will now be once a month, Saturdays from 10am to 11am EST. During this time, there will be reading and sharing of poems virtually as we have done in previous year.

Here are the dVerse LIVE events you can book from our calendar here:
*February 17, 2024
*March 16, 2024

2. We will offer an Optional poetry prompt. This is for those poets who are looking for poetry prompts, and participation is optional.

Here is the mini-optional prompt:

Woman with flowered hat by Jean Dupas

1. Use the image above as a muse for your poem. Write an ekphrastic poem.

2. Or use the title of the image as part of your poem: Woman with flowered hat.

There is no poetry form required for this mini-optional prompt.

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For additional inspiration, here is a poem by Amy Lowell.

The Artist
BY AMY LOWELL

Why do you subdue yourself in golds and purples?
Why do you dim yourself with folded silks?
Do you not see that I can buy brocades in any draper’s shop,
And that I am choked in the twilight of all these colors.
How pale you would be, and startling—
How quiet;
But your curves would spring upward
Like a clear jet of flung water,
You would quiver like a shot-up spray of water,
You would waver, and relapse, and tremble.
And I too should tremble,
Watching.

Murex-dyes and tinsel—
And yet I think I could bear your beauty unshaded.

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Out of courtesy, please link back to dVerse Poets Pub if you are sharing your poem.

To join us for Thursday’s OpenLinkNight, here’s how to join:
  • Write a poem in your blog.   You have the option to use our optional prompt as described above.
  • Enter a link directly to your 1 poem and your name by clicking Mr Linky below and remember to check the little box to accept the use/privacy policy.
  • There you will find links to other poets, and more will join during the next 48 hours so check back to read other entries.
  • Read and comment on other poet’s work, we all go here to have our poems read
  • Please link back to dVerse from your site/blog.
  • Comment and participate in our discussion below, if you like.
  • Have fun.
See you at the poetry trail. ~Grace~