The Adventure of the Retired Colourman: Poetry

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Title: The Adventure of the Retired Colourman: Poetry
Author: gardnerhill                         
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: Postulation and cogitation
Summary: Amberley may not be the only one agitated about a possibly unfaithful spouse.         

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“There was something about that detective Barker, Holmes. Tall, dark, with the rugged good looks of an old military man. I must confess that he brought back fond memories of my time in the barracks–”

Holmes’ pipe snapped from his clenched teeth.

I hid my grin. Send me on a hot unpleasant wild goose chase with a client, would he?

The Retired Colourman: A Blues Song

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Canon Story: The Retired Colourman
Rating: Gen

The retired colourman
thought
missus w’another man
thought
he’d go and bluff a man
but
Mister
Holmes’d be a duller man
than
every cryin’-mother’s man
if
he
wasn’t such a muller man
and
through-a-
winner-bouncin’ rubber man!
And
Mister
Holmes’d
be
a sail-
without-a-rudder man
without
his unlike-
any-other man,
his
band-of-brother man,
Doctor
Watson.
So, it’s bye-bye
Mister Colourman!

Discussion Post: The Retired Colourman

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The Retired Colourman and the chosen topic is Private Detectives. (You may also like to look back at the Pinkerton Detective Agency discussion post.)

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Retired Colourman

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Welcome once again to my poetry page!

I hope each week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative and then go on to write a poem related to it in some way. All forms of poetry are permitted, and further down the page there is a selection you might like to consider using over the coming weeks.

And here, courtesy of my housemaid Rachel, is this week’s suggested poem to read—a suggestion inspired by the themes and subjects in this week's story. Hopefully you will enjoy the poem, and perhaps it may give you some ideas for a poem of your own or allow you to look at Dr. Watson's story in a new way.



The Laboratory

By Robert Browning



Thank you so much to Rachel. And I thought we could also have a go at a new poetry form: the quatern.


( Definition and Example )

But you do not have to use that form. Any form of poetry is welcome this week—and every week! Here are a few suggestions for you:

221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, alexandrine, ballad, beeswing, blackout poetry, blitz poem, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, compound word verse, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, echo verse, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, epigram, epistle, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, florette, found poetry, free verse, ghazal, haiku, hay(na)ku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, lies, limerick, line messaging, list poem, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, nonsense verse, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quatern, quintilla, renga, rhyming alliterisen, riddle, rime couée, rispetto, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, shadorma, sonnet, stream of consciousness, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by The Retired Colourman in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Retired Colourman: Dramatic Irony

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Canon Story: The Retired Colourman
Title: Dramatic Irony
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G


“Do you think I should ‘cut out the poetry’?” asked Watson.

Mrs. Hudson perused the manuscript. “How any decent woman could have tolerated such a state of things… The house… was slatternly…”

She looked thoughtful.

“It’s fine. And given me some… practical… ideas.”

Watson nodded. “You’re going to repaint?”

Mrs. Hudson was not quite making eye contact. “‘Repaint’… Of course.”

The Retired Colourman: A Lesson Well Learned

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Canon Story: The Retired Colourman
Title: A Lesson Well Learned (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

It was with some satisfaction I was able to telephone Holmes and tell him that somehow Lestrade and I had missed the last train back, and we would therefore unfortunately need to spend the night at an inn.  I do not think Holmes believed me, but there was nothing he could do about it.  I have learnt from the best.