Haiku (about fountain pens)

[Misfit]

I sometimes attempt to write haiku. I figured why not have a thread of handwritten haiku we make up ourselves to celebrate fountain pens.  I’ll start. 
 

[mhguda]

[mhguda]

Great idea, I'll play!

[Misfit]

Thank you for joining in @mhguda

[Misfit]

[essayfaire]

Tired today, but I like the idea so here's a contribution: 

[Misfit]

And such a gorgeous pen @essayfaire

[mhguda]

Here are two more. Forgive the bad photography...

 

 

scratchpad paper - not the greatest, but not bad for quick jotting.

 

[Misfit]

@mhguda

i used the Apple translator for this reply. Is it right?

 

Ach, ich brauche eine Übersetzung

[mhguda]

No, that was Dutch.

It says

A fountainpen is only

an oldfashioned instrument

to write this.

 

Not exactly haiku in English. But it's pretty close.

 

[essayfaire]

1 hour ago, Misfit said:

And such a gorgeous pen @essayfaire

It's a Pelikan 205 EF, which means it's a pretty wet and wide nib relative to many of my others.  This one is more typical:

 

[inkstainedruth]

2 hours ago, essayfaire said:

Tired today, but I like the idea so here's a contribution: 

Is that a Blue Marbled?  I was just using mine yesterday (but mine has a medium nib).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[jandrew]

[Misfit]

@jandrew. That drawing accompanying your haiku is so wonderful. I don’t think I can up my haiku game to that, but if others are talented that way, please show it if you want to. 

[Misfit]

2 hours ago, mhguda said:

No, that was Dutch.

It says

A fountainpen is only

an oldfashioned instrument

to write this.

 

Not exactly haiku in English. But it's pretty close.

 

If I had looked more closely, I should have seen clues it was not German. 

[Misfit]

In the case of the pen that wrote this, not a match. 
 

[Misfit]

[A Smug Dill]

[txomsy]

Written in a haste to join this thread...

 

The pen in its sleeve

- Fallen leaves wait to be writ-

Waits to be unsheathed.

 

[mhguda]