Favorite lines of poetry

[Bookman]

So if you're walking down the street sometime

And spot some hollow ancient eyes

Please don't just pass 'em by and stare

As if you didn't care

Say hello in there,

Hello.

 

Closing verse of "Hello in There," by John Prine

Edited February 17, 2018 by Bookman

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Are scans allowed in this thread?

 

This is the incipit of a wonderful poem by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, titled "The Improvisatrice."

 

 

 

There are some breath-taking quotes here, I'm writing some of them so I can use them for my calligraphy exercises.

[migo984]

Are scans allowed in this thread?

 

This is the incipit of a wonderful poem by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, titled "The Improvisatrice."

 

 

 

There are some breath-taking quotes here, I'm writing some of them so I can use them for my calligraphy exercises.

I love these lines, and it’s so pertinent that they are handwritten. Thank you for posting.

[TSherbs]

Keats, sitting under the garden tree, imagining that he can escape his fevered life and join the singing nightingale:


Away! away! for I will fly to thee,
Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,
But on the viewless wings of Poesy,
Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:
Already with thee! tender is the night,
And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,
Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays;
But here there is no light,
Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown
Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Found this old quote in my quotes journal.

Please don't look too closely at the spacing, I'm still working on it.

Pen is Wing Sung 3008 with Lamy 1.5mm stub nib.

Ink is Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue.

Paper is Clairefontaine 90g/m.

 

 

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

The first time I read these lines I was in high school, towards the middle of it I think, so probably 16 of age or so.

And I remember my reaction was "you can't catch a melody with your tongue, maybe he wanted to say words but that didn't sound good in English poetry or something." lol

 

Pen: Wing Sung 3008 with Lamy 1.5mm nib.

Ink: J. Herbin 1670 Anniversary Rouge Hematite

Paper: Clairefontaine 90g/m.

 

[Drawing61]

Thanks Royal Blue. You are an inspiration. Your script is lovely.

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Thanks Royal Blue. You are an inspiration. Your script is lovely.

I think it's awful, mostly sharing these for the shading, but thank you so much for the kind encouragement!

[Tom Kellie]

Found this old quote in my quotes journal.

Please don't look too closely at the spacing, I'm still working on it.

Pen is Wing Sung 3008 with Lamy 1.5mm stub nib.

Ink is Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue.

Paper is Clairefontaine 90g/m.

 

 

 

~ RoyalBlueNotebooks:

 

The Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue ink above is stunning!

I've never seen it before.

The shading knocks me over. Absolutely lovely.

It's the color and look which I especially like, as I'm attracted to more pale colors.

Thank you for posting it.

Tom K.

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

 

~ RoyalBlueNotebooks:

 

The Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue ink above is stunning!

I've never seen it before.

The shading knocks me over. Absolutely lovely.

It's the color and look which I especially like, as I'm attracted to more pale colors.

Thank you for posting it.

Tom K.

Thank you, it was my pleasure! : )

[Karmachanic]

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Floyd

[Tom Kellie]

[Runnin_Ute]

As a Senior, I was involved with the literary magazine at my high school. Through a couple of classes I had that year. Creative writing and Service Art, and had input from both sides. Either in content or production. I was looking through it yesterday. Thought I would share a couple of things. An entire page (US Legal size) was a finish the sentence thing we did in class. It began,

 

"I Write Because..."

 

...because sometimes when I'm lonely I can have a conversation on paper. -Tammy Hardman

 

...because I'd rather write than switch. - Brad Merrill

 

Just a couple for now. I am going to write it out on Tomoe River and scan it and share the rest.

 

I picked the above, because one is mine, the other is one I thought that all or most of us could relate to.

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

"I Write Because..."

 

...because sometimes when I'm lonely I can have a conversation on paper. -Tammy Hardman

This is one of those special moments when somebody has put one of my most indescribable feelings into words.

Also I don't understand what's the switch you refer to Brad (Mr. Merrill?).

[Runnin_Ute]

This is one of those special moments when somebody has put one of my most indescribable feelings into words.

Also I don't understand what's the switch you refer to Brad (Mr. Merrill?).

I wrote it in the mid-70's. It was kind of inspired by this advertisement. If my memory serves me right. (and I am and always have been a non-smoker)

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_Tareyton_smokers_would_rather_fight_than_switch!

 

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Love this poem.

 

Pen: Wing Sung 3008 with a Lamy Z50 1.5mm stub nib.

Ink: Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue.

Paper: Local.

 

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Some lyrics. The song was quite meh, but I needed the exercise and couldn't think of anything.

My "q" is a work in progress.

 

Pen: Pilot Pluminix B.

Ink: Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Brown.

 

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Lyrics still count right?

This is part of the chorus of Machine Gun Kelly ft. X Ambassadors & Bebe Rexha - Home.

 

The shading is due to Lgsoltek's trick of dripping a color into the breather hole of another pen. Pelikan Royal Blue has run out too quickly here though, I'll try this again.

 

Pen: no name Chinese piston filler.

Ink: J. Herbin 1670 Rouge Hematite.

Paper: Pigna notebook.

 

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

This is the continuation of the experiment with Rohrer Klingner Sepia and Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue.

 

Pen: Wing Sung 3008 with Lamy F nib.

Ink: Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue.

Paper: probably a Pigna notebook.

 

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

My majuscules game is horrible so I avoid them like the plague.

 

Pen: Pilot Pluminix B.

Ink: Diamine Kelly Green. Such a lovely green, it shades so well.

Paper: Clairefontaine 90g/m.