Favorite lines of poetry

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Another poem by Mary Robinson!

Nib: Pluminix B.

Ink Rohrer & Klingner Salix.

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Impromptu inky experiment with Monteverde Rose Noir and Diamine Kelly Green!

 

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Pen(s): So many.

Ink(s): So many.

 

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Found a wonderful poem on poetryfoundation.org.

Pen: Jinhao #6 fude.

Ink: Diamine Shimmertastic Shimmering Seas.

[Terry Brack]

...If you have two animal crackers, one good and one bad, and you

eat one and a striped zebra with streaks all over him eats the
other, how many animal crackers will you have if somebody
offers you five six seven and you say No no no and you say
Nay nay nay and you say Nix nix nix?
If you ask your mother for one fried egg for breakfast and she
gives you two fried eggs and you eat both of them, who is
better in arithmetic, you or your mother?

 

--from Arithmetic by Carl Sandburg

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

The beginning of Morningside Heights.

Pen: Faber-Castell steel nib M.

Ink: GvFC Olive Green.

 

[hh1990]

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Still considering lyrics poetry here.

Ink: Diamine Emerald.

[Tom Kellie]

~ RoyalBlueNotebooks:

 

Your many poetry posts are a joy to read.

That you use a wide range of inks is especially nice.

What a treat for the eyes to visit this thread.

It not only refreshes the mind with fresh thinking, but it enlivens the eye with beguiling colors.

Many, many thanks!

Tom K.

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

~ RoyalBlueNotebooks:

 

Your many poetry posts are a joy to read.

That you use a wide range of inks is especially nice.

What a treat for the eyes to visit this thread.

It not only refreshes the mind with fresh thinking, but it enlivens the eye with beguiling colors.

Many, many thanks!

Tom K.

Please don't make me blush!

I visit your Enjoying MB pens thread religiously. Your sketches are great, your pictures are unparalleled and your good moods are contagious! Hope all is well with you and Yubi, have a great day!

 

EDIT. I forgot I came here to add a poem! (Only the first few lines though, Whitman can go on forever).

Pen: Pilot Kakuno F.

Ink: Diamine Onyx Black.

Edited July 12, 2018 by RoyalBlueNotebooks

[TSherbs]

Whitman and Dickinson are the two greatest American poets, and were co-temporaneous. What a scene it would have been for them if they had ever met.

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

I've read a bit about Audre Lorde and I bow to her tenacity. What a woman. Respect.

Pen: Jinhao #6 fude.

Ink: Diamine Shimmertastic Shimmering Seas.

 

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

First stanzas of Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This is the first poem (novel in verses actually) written by a woman with a woman protagonist.

Ink: Diamine Emerald.

[TSherbs]

First stanzas of Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This is the first poem (novel in verses actually) written by a woman with a woman protagonist.

?? What do you mean by this? There are other earlier women who wrote poems about themselves or other women. In English, try Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley. And in other languages?

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

?? What do you mean by this? There are other earlier women who wrote poems about themselves or other women. In English, try Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley. And in other languages?

I dont mean anythingby this, it says so in the Norton anthology. Apparently this is the first poem ij the English language by a woman writer with a woman protagonist.

I'll get the page in a moment and check.

 

"As Cora Kaplan observes, the first work in English by a woman writer in which the heroine herself is an author."

 

Obviously I forgot to add the most important part. Sorry for the misleading sentence!

Edited July 15, 2018 by RoyalBlueNotebooks

[TSherbs]

I dont mean anythingby this, it says so in the Norton anthology. Apparently this is the first poem ij the English language by a woman writer with a woman protagonist.

I'll get the page in a moment and check.

 

"As Cora Kaplan observes, the first work in English by a woman writer in which the heroine herself is an author."

 

Obviously I forgot to add the most important part. Sorry for the misleading sentence!

Hey no problem. I teach literature, so I just figured that you meant something other than what you wrote. Interesting tidbit. Thanks for sharing.

[inkstainedruth]

Interesting discussion. I've never read any Browning. Possibly because when I was in college pulling all nighters to get projects finished I'd routinely stumble across some TV station re-broadcasting The Barretts of Wimpole Street and a lot of Victorian-era stuff just annoys me.

I had a class on Arthurian literature my last semester. The first couple of classes were taught by substitutes, because the regular professor was in Hollywood(!) as dialogue coach for some story he'd sold to the old CBS Cable channel. So the first week was taught by a guy from the History Dept. (the "historical" Arthur and now I'm sorry I never took a class from the guy). But the second week was on the "Guinevere tradition" and to prep for the class we had to read the end of Idyls of the King (a real snooze -- put me off Tennyson for pretty much forever). Then *in* class we read William Morris' "The Defense of Guinevere" which is a whole different kettle of fish. Including me somewhat flummoxing the professor (who I gather normally taught Victorian Literature):

Prof: "Does anyone know who William Morris was?"

me: "Uh, he was one of the Pre-Rafaelites, wasn't he?"

Prof: "How did you KNOW that?"

me: "Because I'm an art major...."

Unlike the history prof, I'm really kinda glad I didn't have any classes from the guy from the English Department....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[hh1990]

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[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

I liked this poem so much I wrote it down immediately! I left a couple of stanzas though, I'm not fond of the religious ones.

Pen: Faber-Castell M the dry one.

Ink: Diamine Chocolate Brown.

 

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Smell of fresh manure all afternoon... The countryside is so wonderful, they said, it's a paradise, they said...

Anyway. Refreshing poem by Whitman, love the strength of his lyrical voice here.

Pilot Pluminix F.

Rohrer & Klingner Scabiosa (iron gall)