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Hello all,
Björn here, hosting the Open Link where we also will have a live session on Saturday September 14 at 10 AM New York Time.
The link to join is here:
https://meet.google.com/tro-ymgf-erc?hs=122&authuser=0
As usual you are free to link up any one poem tonight and if you want, you may join and read a poem live on Saturday (or just join and listen).
We also provide an optional mini-prompt you can write for if you prefer
I have been absent this summer doing a long hike with my wife from the northernmost tip of Sweden to the end of the mountains in the south. The total distance we walked was 1346 km in 53 days.
A walk like this is often quite meditative, and though you meet other hikers you also meet yourself.
This leads me to the mini-prompt for this week:
Solvitur ambulando – It is solved by walking.
Originally coming from Saint Augustine it was brought up as a problem solved by practical experimentation. To me it may also refer to pilgrimage, or even Management by walking around
If you write for the prompt about walking or any other poem, link up by clicking on Mr Linky.
Leave a comment below and do remember to read and comment. Se you on the poetry trail and in the live session.
dVerse 
Welcome to sit down, maybe grab a beer, a glas of sparkly or a coffee and maybe our special lingonberry smoothie. For snacks I have some excellent cheese with fresh bread, olives and pickles.
Welcome back, Björn, and thanks for hosting with a walking theme and cartoon. I decided to link up with a poem I wrote for NaPoWriMo this year, which some poets may already know, but I’ve been away and been catching up with everything, so I didn’t write to the mini prompt. A lingonberry sounds perfect for the time of year.
Could you please attach the link here… The one you provided linked back to dverse… I can correct it.
I was sure I’d copied the link! It’s done now. Would you mind deleting the first, incorrect one, please?
Thank you for hosting Bjorn. I offer an updated revision of a poem that I wrote a couple years ago. It focuses on the bliss of love.
♥️
Of course it is about love… you are a true romantic.
Damn Björn. That’s not a walk. It’s a pilgrimage my friend, WOW! Good on you and your wife. 👍🏼🙂✌🏼🫶🏼
Hello Bjorn and All. Again, it is great to have you back. I had to use a conversion chart and a calculator to figure out you and your wife were walking approximate 15 miles per day. *Impressive* One foot in front of the other forces you into mindfulness I would imagine?
I wrote my poem last week and thought it would be good to use for Open Link Night. Will do my best to make it to the LIVE event on Saturday.
We had five zero days, so on average we walked more than 17 miles per day we walked… once you get used to it, it is just on foot in front of the other though
I admire your fortitude and humility. And this isn’t the first time you two have done it!
It’s our second time… next time might be in winter…
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Thank you for tending pub, Bjorn. I shall try to make it to dVerse LIVE on Saturday, but since we’re in Provincetown, I don’t really know what is on the docket on Saturday — or how the internet will be working. It seems to go in and out….
And yes, welcome back! PS: a ligonberry smoothie sound very Swedish as well as delicious – I’ll have one of those, please.
I hope to see you… maybe joining with audio only works better (try to join with the phone)
Hello 😀 welcome back Bjorn!
Cheese with fresh bread for me please .. we are in the midst of Autumn (sans the changing leaves) 🩷
Will be here today and tomorrow to read and comment ..
Ah.. but it is tomorrow already for you 🙂
Haha yes! Ok tomorrow and on Saturday 😛
A pilgrimage for sure. I can walk up to 13kms in a day but I’m pretty sure I won’t manage such a journey. Take my hat off to you two. One surely is a changed person after.
It is a journey indeed… and somehow it actually change you.
Bedtime here… I hope you find your way. I will be back tomorrow and later.
wow, what a lovely trip!!!! ❣️
It was really nice to walk like that..
Sooo awesome💗
Hi Björn. I walk every day, and it is great for musing, but you really WALKED! 🙂
I wrote a poem inspired by Lillian’s sea prompt and history. Let me try some of your excellent cheese and some “sparkly.”
Of course.. some sparkly … sea and history sounds very interesting.
😊
what a feat on foot – and meeting yourself into the bargain. Am just back from a Flamenco concert so the walking pace poetry is just right to calm me down before bedtime. Back tomorrow to read everyone’s contributions
Flamenco… that sounds really interesting.
My trail has ended and I’m ready for wine. Enjoy!
Wine is great at the end of the trail.
So glad to see you back Björn, was starting to fret at your absence – I hope to be there tomorrow but in the meantime I would like to raise a glass of Lingonberry smoothie to toast Swedish epics…
🙂 Nice to be back, but also I long to be back into walking.
What an amazing walk! It sounds wonderful.
I’ve already had one Friday night sparkly, while hiding in my bedroom from my kids. But another would be nice. 🙂
Hiding here for some sparkly works too 🙂
Thank you for hosting Bjorn, even though I have gone with my own work I enjoyed the resource on walking – I love hiking, and have a sense of pilgrimage too.
It will be nice to see what can be done next.
Yes indeed
What a trek you accomplished!!!! Astounding. You both have more energy than I do…by far. Congratulations.
It was a pilgrimage
For a specific purpose? I just read an incredible book about a pilgrimage of sorts.
Thank you for hosting, Bjorn . 🙂
You are welcome
Fantastic prompt and pilgrimage walk through Sweden. Would like to read more about this. Sorry not to be able to join you but busy with grandkids. I need to find a way to join in more but best when back in Spain.
I have heard that there is a very famous pilgrimage walks in Spain.
All footpaths lead to Santiago in Spain! From Seville it is the ‘rua de plata’ silver route. But walk in late autumn or spring not summer!