Ink Well

A poet was trying to think When her cat tipped over the ink As she tried to blot Each puddle and dot She discovered the missing link

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Robert Gorelick

Date: 6/16/2022 12:02:00 PM

Ink, ink, a bottle of ink, the cork fell out, and you stink! A grammar school rhyme going back at least to the 1920's. My mother used ink well, back in grade school. Boys used to dip the girls' pigtails into their bottles of ink, a common classroom prank. Good one Rico

Valsa George

Date: 6/15/2022 9:52:00 PM

This is beautiful and cute, Rico. Missing links are found when a poet tries 'to blot each puddle and dot'. Ink wells have become an antique item, but I love it....!

Rico Leffanta
Date: 6/16/2022 10:47:00 AM

Mahalo, Valsa! Answers are not always found on the web! Aloha!

Connie Marcum Wong

Date: 6/15/2022 4:52:00 PM

I love this Rico….another Fave for me. I can just visualize a cat doing this. So cute. Btw I have a pen that uses an ink well. I don’t use a quill however, I am not quite that old. Lol Blessings xxoo

Rico Leffanta
Date: 6/16/2022 10:46:00 AM

I still use a fountain pen with an accountant's point, but must be careful as they don't make them anymore! Aloha!

Tom Cunningham

Date: 6/15/2022 3:19:00 PM

To think soup poets used inkwells and a quill writing away with a candle flickering, how we've come on. Was that missing link the subhuman Putin lol. Tom

Rico Leffanta
Date: 6/16/2022 10:45:00 AM

More likely Rorschach! Aloha!

Susan Lawrence

Date: 6/15/2022 3:17:00 PM

Great one Rico ! I love the clarity that came after the ink spilled ! Remember quills ? So much fun ! Hugs my friend, Susan :)

Rico Leffanta
Date: 6/16/2022 10:44:00 AM

You must be the only Souper who played Klecksography, as it seems everyone else can only see images in clouds, not ink blots! Aloha!

L Milton Hankins

Date: 6/15/2022 12:26:00 PM

Clever, Rico! Lucky her! I know about ink wells and pens. We had to learn to write with what was called a "scratch pen" when I was in the third or fourth grade, I believe. I haven't seen one of those in years.

L Milton Hankins
Date: 6/16/2022 12:38:00 PM

Frankly, I never mastered them! I hated it. Later, when I was teaching cursive to second and third graders I developed a modicum of understanding. But, with my students I was patient. My teacher was not!

Rico Leffanta
Date: 6/16/2022 10:43:00 AM

Only a schoolteacher would believe hands that roped and branded cattle, dug fencepost holes, etc., could draw row upon row of neat circles with the ink evenly distributed! What a trial that was! Aloha!

Karen Jones

Date: 6/15/2022 11:45:00 AM

Cute!

Rico Leffanta
Date: 6/16/2022 10:47:00 AM

Mahalo, Karen!

Ilene Bauer

Date: 6/15/2022 11:14:00 AM

Such a sweet poem, Rico! Does anyone use ink anymore? I’ll stick with a pencil…

Robert Gorelick
Date: 6/16/2022 11:56:00 AM

In the old frontier one dollar bought a deer skin, also called a buckskin, thus one dollar for a buck, (deerskin), dollars began to be referred to as bucks!

L Milton Hankins
Date: 6/15/2022 12:28:00 PM

Rico, believe me, I was dumbfounded, too.

Rico Leffanta
Date: 6/15/2022 11:22:00 AM

This week, I learnt that Milton's Jeopardy contestants have no idea how much American money is "two-bits", and that Soupers have no idea "bucks" refers to Native American males, so I am not surprised only Antique Roadshow viewers know what an ink well is! Thank you for reading and commenting, Ilene! Aloha!