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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. 
 

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Tired today, but I like the idea so here's a contribution: large.IMG_2093.JPG.8c682408e0a7a8584d4059c689028286.JPG

Festina lente

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

 

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

 

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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.

 

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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:

 

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Festina lente

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

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2 hours ago, essayfaire said:

Tired today, but I like the idea so here's a contribution: large.IMG_2093.JPG.8c682408e0a7a8584d4059c689028286.JPG

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

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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Misfit Museum Piece

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@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. 

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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. 

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I endeavour to be frank and truthful in what I write, show or otherwise present, when I relate my first-hand experiences that are not independently verifiable; and link to third-party content where I can, when I make a claim or refute a statement of fact in a thread. If there is something you can verify for yourself, I entreat you to do so, and judge for yourself what is right, correct, and valid. I may be wrong, and my position or say-so is no more authoritative and carries no more weight than anyone else's here.

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Written in a haste to join this thread...

 

The pen in its sleeve

- Fallen leaves wait to be writ-

Waits to be unsheathed.

 

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If you are to be ephemeral, leave a good scent.

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