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Semi-weekly handwritten poetry I found somewhere.

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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 1d

"The Stones" and "The Station", Tomas Tranströmer
Translation by Robin Fulton
Kitty Inkpot x Soe and Soe - Misty Fairy Forest
Wearingeul nobile note (page) and Tomoe River (Hobonichi a5)
Pelikan M400 white tortiseshell

#poetry #tomastranströmer #swedishliterature #fountainpensandink

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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 2d

You can find him on the Commonwealth War Graves register: www.cwgc.org/find-records...

Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 2d

"The Heart To Carry On", Bertram Warr
DreamInk-Maple Falls

A poem about air strikes on Germany, by author (1917-1943)? He died in action when his plane was shot down.

'had Warr survived... he would likely have become an important voice in Canadian poetry.'

#poem #bertramwarr #canadianliterature

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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 3d

Photograph of poem featured in main post as printed in book:

Condolence

The mind, an inveterate traveller.
Journeys swiftly and far
Faster than light, quicker than sound
Or the flaming arc of a falling star
But the body remains in a vacuum
Gagged, bound and sick with dread
Knowing the words that can't be spoken
Searching for words that must be said
Dumb, inarticulate, heartbroken.
Inadequate, inhibited.

Noël Coward

Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 3d

"Condolence", Noël Coward
Montblanc - Around the world in 80 days - Brown
Leuchtturm a5 standard
PenBBS P139 Green

Don't we all feel like we could be brilliant if only our bodies could match our minds?

#poem #poetry #noelcoward #englishliterature #fountainpensandink

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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 4d

"Quiet", Marjorie Pickthall
Wearingeul - Hades
Leuchtturm a5 standard
Penbbs 469

Night time photo as its been raining all day. I didn't bother with the swatch card, since I'm under no illusion that this is colour accurate.

#poetry #poem #marjoriepickthall #candadianliterature #fountainpensandink

Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 5d

Photograph of a page in a published book, showing the poem written in the main post.

The Dream

I had a dream in the day:
I laid my father's body down in a narrow boat

and sent him off along the riverbank with its cattails and grasses.
And the boat - it was made of bark and wood bent when it was wet -

took him to his burial finally.
But a day or two later I realized it was my self I wanted

to lay down, hands crossed, eyes closed....
Oh, the light coming up from down there,

the sweet smell of the water and finally, the sense of being carried
by a current I could not name or change.

Marie Howe

Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 5d

"The Dream", Marie Howe
Iroshizuku Hana-Ikada
Leuchtturm a5
Lamy2000

The final stanza "the sense of being carried/by a current I could not name or change" puts me in mind of that famous painting "Ophelia" by John Everett Millais.

#poem #poetry #mariehowe #americanliterature #fountainpensandink

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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 6d

"A poem that does not flatten", J Tommy White
Wearingeul Siddathra
Small Stationery Studio passport TR52
Hongdian N1-S

This one is from a disability centred lit mag:
wordgathering.com/vol17/issue2...

Spot the unwanted cameo!

#poetry #poem #Jtommywhite #fountainpensandink #fountainpensaustralia

Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 7d

Screenshot of typed poem text from main body

The Uninvited

Always a third one's there
where any two are walking out
along a river-bank so mirror-still
sheathed in sheets of sky
pillows of cloud -
their footprints crunch the hardening earth
their eyes delight in trees   stripped clean
winter-prepared
with only the rose-hips red
and plump fingers of sumach

And always between the two
(scuffing the leaves, laughing
and finger locked)
goes a third lover   his or hers
who walked this way with one or other   once
flung back the head snapped branches of dark pine
in armfuls   before snowfall

I walk beside you
trace
a shadow's shade
skating on silver
hear
another voice
singing under ice

Dorothy Livesay

Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 7d

I wrote a whole thing about my reading of this one but 299 words and 4 images doesn't cut it, so here is a screenshot

Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 7d

"The Uninvited", Dorothy Livesay
Wearingeul x Atlas Stationers - Twelth Night
Wearingeul Nobile Pad A5
Benu Pixie Stardust Pink

Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996) was a Canadian poet, described as lyricial, imagist, and modernist.

#poetry #poem #dorothylivesay #canadianliterature #fountainpensandink

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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 8d

"Yellow Gramophone" Shelia Cussons
Robert Oster- Honey Bee
TR 52gsm, B6
Parker Urban

Shelia Cussons (1922-2004) was a South African Afrikaans poet, writer, artist and translator.

This #poem reminds me of "You're" by Sylvia Plath.

#sheliacussons #southafricanliterature #fountainpensandink

Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 9d

(Victorian here refers to being from the Australian state Victoria, not the reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901)
I don't know why I am expositioning for my non-existent audience 😅

Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 9d

Full text in the alt-text of this photo

Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 9d

"A Victorian Hangman Tells His Love", Bruce Dawe

This is really long and makes for bad photos BUT its impossible to find online, and I want to preserve it for future readers.

This is about the hanging of Ronald Ryan in 1967, the last execution in Australia.

#poem #brucedawe #australianliterature

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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 10d

Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 10d

"Small Boy" Norman MacCaig
Herbin Ambre de Birmanie
Crown Mill
Wingsung 699

I can feel myself now, trying to throw stones, but they cling to my hands and find their way into my pockets until all I want to do is walk into the surf.

#poem #normanmaccaig #scottishliterature #fountainpensandink

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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 11d

Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 11d

"Wearing Thin", Roger McGough
Wearingeul - The Secret Garden
Leuchtturm a5 standard
Platinum Little Meteor

I only had 1 ml of this ink, and initially chose a bad pen, so when I moved it most of the shimmer was lost.

#poem #englishliterature #fountainpensandink #fountainpensaustralia

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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 12d

I'm obsessed with this show! I watched it all in a (very unproductive) day. Where were you when you wrote this?

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Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 12d

"Poem for Stillness", Garous Abdolmalekian
Translated: Ahmad Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey
Van Diemans - December 2023
Leuchtturm a5 standard
TWSBI eco glow purple

I finally bought this dual language book of poems.

#poem #garousabdolmalekian #iranianliterature #fountainpensandink

Poetry in Ink @jestabrick.bsky.social · 13d

Came to say the same! Even the anti-ICE coverage downplays their actions.

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