I started to think about biros again, how mine was long and thin like a matchstick but it had no heft.
A biro should have heft if it is to write anything of import.
Mine is fine for writing light verse, things of flippancy and quirk.
But for something darker, more adventurous, a biro with girth is required.
Yes, I decided, for Fatherβs Day Iβm going to request a biro with a stubby stem, a bit like its inventor Lazlo Biro
photo of Lazlo Biro courtesy of Wikipedia
John Malone 
Ha ha. One must have the right tools. Or the write tools. π. And for depth, every scuba diver wears a weight belt. I think, with a hefty pen and a kaftan, you will be quite the figure!
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lol ; I think I will stand out from the crowd π
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Niche but necessary, John. Maybe adjust the pen according to the project. Biography – fountain pen, haiku – stubby pencil?
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I like the way you think, Matthew π thanks
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i do find the tools we use to write to be important to the process. i love, love very sharp pencils and the way certain pens feel when writing on a page
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you don’t see many poems celebrating this, Beth, so I wrote my little one π
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good one –
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I liked this post a lot.
Not a bic, a lot!
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π thanks Hobbo π
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The best way to write is with a 30-foot wall and a ball-point sword, hara-kiri (ε²θ Ή) or jihad(Ψ§ΩΨ¬ΩΨ§Ψ―) optional. You can see that the sword is mightier than the pen because the translations seem to be very euphemistic. Each word is a euphemism. The actual meaning is quite gory and horrible. Writing with a feather is not very practical: it requires pigeons and talented eagles with stubby pens in their talons with a killer instinct, or requires monkeys with banana pens who like being tickled with a feather.
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Aha; I like your novel take on this, Doug π
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What about a double ended pen, a thin end for flippancy and quirk, and a end with girth for the serious?
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now that’s what I call nifty thinking π
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Haha! That would surely do. He does seem to be hefty.
Very clever and delightful.
With this your words should bear much more weight. π
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π I didn’t know how to end the poem till I checked out the inventor’s name and I saw his photograph and I had it ! π
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Might help your arthritis as well…
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hahah indeed π
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Interesting to see how fathers day pen out
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you’re becoming the master of puns, Ulle π
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I didn’t know the size of the biro mattered. Schooled by your site everyday, John. So fun.
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thanks, K; I like writing little object poems: that’s how I started, it was my niche — and now I’m returning to my niche again π
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Happy Niche-versary. I quite like your niche, and the departures you’ve taken, at least from what you’ve shared online.
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thanks K: everyone should have a niche π I reckon you found yours π
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My Celtic family tradition is to
speak softly and carry a big chisel
to carve deep runes into big rocks.
Big chisels also come in handy
when those thieving Sassenach
lowlanders attack π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ π
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it sounds eminently sensible, David; I may have to call on a big chisel for a particularly intransigent post —
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Transigent is the in thing at the
moment, John π€
But there’s no compromising with
a transient poem π
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actually, David, does ‘transigent’ even exist as a word? isn’t it a bit like ‘inclement’? it only exists in the negative ?
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You might be right, John.
Perhaps I should’ve said
transiperson. Thanks for
the political correction βοΈ
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π sorry, David: I’m a bit of a sleuth when it comes to words: not always right but a bit of a sleuth: the latest being an investigation into heteronyms —
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You can be so mean to an
unlettered philistine, such
as myself, John.
I know not what you mean
by the word, heteronym π€
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sorry, David: I only just discovered it myself when I considered the two different meanings of ‘invalid’: same spelling, different meanings and different pronunciations; no wonder it is said that English is the most difficult language —
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I must get out more π
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English wouldn’t be as much fun if
less complicated. Then just about
anyone could use and abuse it π
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Free and medium-flowing ink pens are the best for me. π
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I used to have those at school and I loved them; my first poems were written with them π
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