Friday 9 January 2009

Not a Harold in Sight


Fat ones, thin ones
Fine Line Uniball bought by the box
(refills to save the planet, Janet)
Black ink only, not blue
(though I use red to edit
in hard copy, card soppy,
adverb droppy despair)
and a fountain pen for signing books
a feather quill for a writer’s looks –
Poseur-fresh but mostly true.
Alas.


8 comments:

stu said...

So not a chewed old biro sort of person, then?

Rachel Green said...

*laughs*
Alas, no.

DJ Kirkby said...

Love the poem and the art, what beautiful eyes.

Rachel Green said...

Thanks Denyse :)

BT said...

I just love pens and pencils of all sorts. Great fun poem and lovely drawing as usual

Rachel Green said...

Thank you Gina.
I don't have room for too many!

Crafty Green Poet said...

I'm a black ink person too, seeing as I've never managed to work out how to use a fountain pen without blotting, the quill is probably out for me

Rachel Green said...

Luisa made me a quill but I am too poor a calligrapher to use it!