Hello poets, readers and everyone. Björn here
When this goes well we are on the day before Midsummer’s eve, and the Live editition will be on a Midsummer’s day. Midsummer which more or less coincides with summer solstice is a huge holiday in Sweden which in church is tied to John the baprist.
You may have seen pictures from how it may be celebrated, but food and snaps with herring, new potatoes and strawberries for desert is a must for midsummer’s eve.
For myself it will be a quiet weekend (with the food) since I will have my second surgery for cataract (next eye). I will just leave you with an image of a very traditional midsummer picture from our most famous painter Anders Zorn that you may use as a miniprompt.
Since it is Open Link you may publish any one poem to your blog, link back to dVerse and then put a link back to your post Mr Linky below. There you can find other poems as well, please read them and comment.
If you want to join the live editision it is at 10 AM on New York time which corresponds to 4 PM Stockholm Time
https://meet.google.com/oia-esqs-uoa
Happy Midsummer.
dVerse 
The Pub is Open!
Good evening everyone… I’m here the day before Midsummer night’s eve… today I offer Fresh Strawberries with whipped cream and to go with that we have elder-flower fizz… hope it fits your taste
Strawberries with whipped cream sounds great, Bjorn! I will have some please 🙂
Looking forward to Saturday 💙
Coming up… and it’s the best strawberries you can wish for
Hello Bjorn and All. This is the perfect time of the year. A tall chilled glass of elder flower fizz please. Sounds divine!
It is very tasty
Cheers!
Good luck with your surgery!
All done now with good result it feels like
Hi Björn, I’ll have the strawberries please!
Also, quick question – I have a flash fiction piece I had published recently that I’d love to share but I appreciate this is a poems only space. What say you?
Strawberries coming up, and for me flash fiction works fine
Thanks Björn! Appreciate that 🙂
Bjorn, strawberries and cream and elderflower fizz sound fantastic. I hope your surgery and recovery go well.
Surgery done… and recovery is ongoing
I hope the surgery goes well and so does the recovery!
Seems to have gone well, and now recovering….
I am hoping to be at the live event but in case I don’t make it – Happy Midsummer’s Day Björn!
Hope to see you Andrew
All the best with the cataract surgery, Bjorn
A quick procedure… now recovering
Good 💓
Thank you for hosting us Bjorn, happy Midsummer 😊 and wishing you a speedy recovery (the food might at least be solace).
Thanks and recovery seems to going well
That’s great to hear Bjorn (I’m on a watch list for mine, too early to deal with they say).
Enjoy the Summer Solstice. The event inspired my poem today 🙂
I have just enjoyed midsummer, tomorrow I will enjoy summer solstice
Happy almost solstice. I’m happy all went well, Björn. The strawberries and cream sound lovely. Here in NJ, our strawberry season has just ended, and we’re on to blueberries.
Strawberries have just started here (of course we have had strawberries from further south in europe for a while….). Today we could forage chantarels which will go on a sandwich later.
Something was wrong with the link… I hope it works now.