Writing poetry

[Tiger the Lion]

These days, I type out ma pomes lying in bed, shortly before falling asleep. The length of lines and choice of words is often dictated by how much battery life remains.
It's not the way good poetry gets written, which is always in a notebook.

In my younger days, I'd sometimes carry a Moleskine or Rhodia notebook (always blank sheets, cream / off white colour) and a fat gel pen in my pocket or shoulder bag, and write while enjoying a coffee in the park. This would be on holidays. Although I once wrote something while sheltering from the rain in a bog standard Pizza express. The circumstances made for a depressing poem.

But the thing is, the best poems are written in small font, with a not too big, not too fine gel pen tip. Always in black or green ink, never blue. And always in a hard bound notebook with blank, acid free paper.

If you disagree, you're a lost cause.

I can't remember the last time I used anything but a keyboard. Sometimes I'll have an idea and type it into my phone's notepad. But most of those go nowhere. Agree about gel pens.