Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Starting Over With a New Fountain Pen - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com 

https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

 

Starting Over with a New Fountain Pen

 

“I’m not happy unless I have a pen in my hand;

It’s really that simple.”

 

-Anthony Horowitz

 

Now you are home from the stationery shop

And seated at your writing desk, alone

Alone with your thoughts in the soft lamplight

You carefully open the little box

 

A pen

 

Perfectly fitted to your artist’s hand

Somehow like a sword or a rosary

Or a wand of power awaiting your command -

For it is a magic pen that has never failed

 

A pen

 

It is your pen. It is sacred. Name it.

Pray over it. Then dare to write the truth.

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