Excuses Of An Amateur Poem by Ananta Madhavan

My tools are blameworthy:
A fountain pen that will not flow,
A typewriter with a jammed ribbon.
I should have done better with a stylus
On palmyra leaf,
Or chisel on stone pillar,
Like ancestors anonymous.
I have not much to say,
And much to exclude.
My tools are blunt with disuetude.

Briefer haikus:

1.
Pause or pass - no need for words;

2.
Only seven syllables.

- - (1969,2014)