Favorite lines of poetry

[inkstainedruth]

Very nice, Ols67!  What's the pen and ink?

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Ols67]

2 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Very nice, Ols67!  What's the pen and ink?

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Hi Ruth!  Thanks!  It is a Tactile Turn Fountain Pen with a Damascus Steel forward grip that is excellent!  I can attest that the Tactile Turn folks are first class people who make a quality product.

 

Th nib is a steel Bock that Pendleton ground to a medium cursive italic with added flex.  It’s a seriously clever piece of work, and if you look closely you can see the slits cut into the nib.

 

This is probably my favorite pen.  Also…love the inks that the Birmingham Pen folks put out…I have tried five now, and they are all great!

 

Happy Saturday!

 

Vr

 

Matt

[inkstainedruth]

Is that Herr's Island Ultramarine?  Wow.  I'm clearly not using the right paper because I have that in a pen at the moment (although admittedly not with a cursive italic nib, just a regular F nib) -- and I'm not getting ANY of the amazing sheen that you've got in the photos.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstaineduth

[Ols67]

1 hour ago, inkstainedruth said:

Is that Herr's Island Ultramarine?  Wow.  I'm clearly not using the right paper because I have that in a pen at the moment (although admittedly not with a cursive italic nib, just a regular F nib) -- and I'm not getting ANY of the amazing sheen that you've got in the photos.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstaineduth

Yes…Tomoe River Paper brings out the sheen!

[Aether]

I quite like Frost's 'The Road Not Taken' (to give it its correct title).  Not so much for the poem itself, although it is very good, but for the fact that the overwhelming majority of readers have no idea what it meant and consistently misinterpreted it, despite the fact that the author explained his intention in a later interview.

[inkstainedruth]

I found something about that interview online, since I thought it would be an interesting read: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/weve-gotten-wrong-robert-frost-classic#transcript

I'd always assumed that it was a bit about not regretting life choices made and it's way more complicated than that....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[amberleadavis]

[VersoFolio]

I posted a poem on our forum earlier by a celebrated New Zealand poet, Hone Tuwhare. (Ho ne Tu wha re)

And this line is still one of my favourites.

 

Excerpt from "Rain".

"..and I should know you by the lick of you if I were blind, rain..

 

I'm criss-crossing my posts a little here because I just finished a reply to @amberleadavis in which I mention a winter evening, 'Live Poet's' gig at the "Mussel Inn".

 

That remote 'bush' venue is where I heard, an elderly gentleman, Hone Tuwhare recite his composition, "Rain", and it has remained with me since then.

 

P.I.Tom

[amberleadavis]

10 hours ago, Pale.Ink.Tom said:

I posted a poem on our forum earlier by a celebrated New Zealand poet, Hone Tuwhare. (Ho ne Tu wha re)

And this line is still one of my favourites.

 

Excerpt from "Rain".

"..and I should know you by the lick of you if I were blind, rain..

 

I'm criss-crossing my posts a little here because I just finished a reply to @amberleadavis in which I mention a winter evening, 'Live Poet's' gig at the "Mussel Inn".

 

That remote 'bush' venue is where I heard, an elderly gentleman, Hone Tuwhare recite his composition, "Rain", and it has remained with me since then.

 

P.I.Tom

 

What a beautiful line.

[txomsy]

A couple of lines from different poems by Charles Baudelaire:

 

From 'The Hair": 'Like other spirits row on Music, mine, O my love! swims in your fragrance'

 

 

 

From "The Clock": 'Yes, I see the time; it is Eternity'

 

This second one is difficult to grasp in its full meaning without the context provided by the whole poem.

 

[txomsy]

And a short epigram from Goethe

 

Is there such a great mystery as God, Men and the World are?

No! but none dares listen, so it remains a mystery.

 

 

 

I guess it should be the motto of every scientist.

[txomsy]

This one is from a poetress in medieval Al-Andalus. In the 12th-13th century (Christian era) she was an illustrated woman respected for her knowledge, something I find most admirable.

 

In these lines she talks about hand-writing, and tells us that -for her- Science is more important than good looks. It is striking also because Grammar, Poetry and Calligraphy were among the most respected arts of her time and society, which tells a lot about her devotion to study.

 

A good hand does not help Science.

It is but an ornament on paper:

Study is my goal and I want nothing else,

As, according to knowledge raises the youth among mortals.

 

Um al-Hassan Bint Abi Ya'Far at Tanyâli

Daughter of Cadi Abû Ya'Far

 

 

 

Note added: I just looked this up again, and I made a mistake copying her name (it is ...at Tanyâli, no ...at Tanyûtu). Blame it to persbyopia. I copied it as it was in the book of Poetry I took this from. It seems only two fragments survive of her work, this being one of them.

 

Of good family, she became an expert in Qur'an, Literature, Poetry, History, Rethoric and Medicine. 

 

Let each one draw their own conclusions because mine lead to forbidden paths.

[Mercian]

For all you lovers of 20th-century ‘modernism’, here’s a copy of ‘Waste Land Limericks’ by Wendy Cope.

 

 

This is just my habitual scrawl, not any especial attempt at legibility. Mea culpa.

So, ‘if’ anyone has difficulty attempting to read it, I will be utterly unsurprised 😔

[ajoe]

by Derek Walcott

Love After Love

 

The time will come 
when, with elation 
you will greet yourself arriving 
at your own door, in your own mirror 
and each will smile at the other's welcome, 

and say, sit here. Eat. 
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart 
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you 

all your life, whom you ignored 
for another, who knows you by heart. 
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, 

the photographs, the desperate notes, 
peel your own image from the mirror. 
Sit. Feast on your life.

[Mercian]

Seeing that @amberleadavis had posted ‘The Voice’ by Shel Silverstein reminded me of the existence of the following poem: ’The Voice’ by Thomas Hardy

 

 

Another manuscript mangled by Mercian 😉

 

If anyone wants to try to ‘colour-correct’ the photo in order to get a decent idea of the actual colour of Lamy ‘Dark Lilac’, I took the picture underneath an old Philips TL-D 70W/840 7A 6-ft-long fluorescent tube.

 

Edit to add:

The Joyless Pedant within me compels me to point out that I stupidly transposed a ‘;’ for the intended ‘:’ in the third line of the poem’s second stanza.

[amberleadavis]

On 3/1/2023 at 1:38 PM, Mercian said:

Seeing that @amberleadavis had posted ‘The Voice’ by Shel Silverstein reminded me of the existence of the following poem: ’The Voice’ by Thomas Hardy

 

 

Another manuscript mangled by Mercian 😉

 

If anyone wants to try to ‘colour-correct’ the photo in order to get a decent idea of the actual colour of Lamy ‘Dark Lilac’, I took the picture underneath an old Philips TL-D 70W/840 7A 6-ft-long fluorescent tube.

 

Edit to add:

The Joyless Pedant within me compels me to point out that I stupidly transposed a ‘;’ for the intended ‘:’ in the third line of the poem’s second stanza.

 

Thank you!