The Man with the Twisted Lip: Dancing with the Good Doctor

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Title: Dancing with the Good Doctor
Author: impulsereader
Canon story: The Man with the Twisted Lip
A/N: Special thanks to chess_ka and azriona. I was inspired by your 60s for this story. Also to debriswoman because it isn't verse, but it wasn't until I thought of you that I realized I should format this differently.

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They learn their pas de trois slowly.

It is an evolution
a revolution

a revelation in fact
and happily not a dissolution.
Suppliants come,

will always come
both to Holmes and to Mary.
This is simply the way things are

the way they have been,
and will be.

Watson sees.
He learns to observe.

He helps whenever he is able.

Comments

[debriswoman]

Nicely done! I like the link made between Holmes and Mary.

And I think it counts as a poem:-)

Thursday, October 25th, 2012

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User flawedamythyst referenced to your post from Thursday, October 25th, 2012 (http://holmesian-news.livejournal.com/244525.html) saying: [...] by (Bradstreet | G | ACD) Dancing With The Good Doctor [...]

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is deceptively deep, and the unconventional poem structure very much works here.

He helps whenever he is able.

Your whole poem is an excellent character point that I'd never thought of before: it's the three of them, with Watson helping the other two. Interesting implications to that. Great work!

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed my last few 60s. I'm going to take the little high you've given me with this flood of compliments in my inbox to write this week's and get everything up to date on my own journal and AO3. :-)

[ennui-enigma.livejournal.com]

Fabulous job! Love the flow of this this and the underlying meaning!