The Lion’s Mane: Patsy

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Title: The Lion’s Mane: Patsy
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60                     
Rating: G
Warning: Crack.
Summary:  Oh, sure – pin this on the jellyfish.
                                                                                                                                                                                
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For millennia I’ve lived below, gathering my strength to once again rise from the depths and cow these puny surface creatures. This quiet cove is perfect for a base of operations.

I killed one or two of them, sent one wounded away. The fools blame that infantile blob of tentacles.

Soon. Soon we Old Ones will rule this land again.

The Lion's Mane: Plenty of tragedy to go around

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Canon Story: The Lion’s Mane
Rating: Gen

A creature swept off-course by gale.
A sudden end to life once hale.
A cruel parry for a pup’s thrust.
A pup expired in master’s dust.                                                                                                                                                 
A love kept hid for father’s scorn.
A clue cut short like message torn.
A final breath ignominious.
A third attack exsanguineous.   
Provoking most consternation?
Stackhurst, ‘without invitation,’
And Watson, then,
‘beyond the ken.’

Discussion Post: The Lion's Mane

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The Lion’s Mane and the chosen topic is Swimming in the Victorian and Edwardian periods.

A few facts:

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Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Lion's Mane

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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.



Part 1 of "Voyages," by Hart Crane:

Above the fresh ruffles of the surf
Bright striped urchins flay each other with sand.
They have contrived a conquest for shell shucks,
And their fingers crumble fragments of baked weed
Gaily digging and scattering.

And in answer to their treble interjections
The sun beats lightning on the waves,
The waves fold thunder on the sand;
And could they hear me I would tell them:

O brilliant kids, frisk with your dog,
Fondle your shells and sticks, bleached
By time and the elements; but there is a line
You must not cross nor ever trust beyond it
Spry cordage of your bodies to caresses
Too lichen-faithful from too wide a breast.
The bottom of the sea is cruel.


This is an excerpt from the poem. You can read the whole piece here.




Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is also a new poetry form to try: the cherita.


Larry Kimmel gives this definition:

The "Cherita" is a creation of ai li…

Cherita [pronounced CHAIR-rita] is the Malay word for story or tale. A Cherita consists of a single stanza verse, followed by a two-line verse, and then finishing with a three-line verse. It can be written solo or with up to three partners. The Cherita tells a story.



Here is my example:


Mr. Holmes has left.

The removal men have been
And the upper rooms stand empty.

Hang on. Empty?
Dear God.
He’s taken my furniture to Sussex.



But you do not have to use this 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, barzelletta, beeswing, blackout poetry, blitz poem, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cherita, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, clogyrnach, colour poems, compound word verse, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, débat, décima, descort, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, echo verse, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, enuig, 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, rimas dissolutas, rime couée, rispetto, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, shadorma, sonnet, stream of consciousness, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, tricube, trine, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle, xenolith


Please leave all your poems inspired by The Lion’s Mane in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Lion's Mane: Outlandish Blood

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Canon Story: The Lion's Mane
Title: Outlandish Blood
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: ...there was some strange outlandish blood in the man, which showed itself not only in his coal-black eyes and swarthy face but also in occasional outbreaks of temper, which could only be described as ferocious…


“I’m sure Mr. Holmes did not mean to be offensive,” said Stackhurst cautiously.

Murdoch set the Strand aside and rolled his eyes.

“I had believed my temper was my own flaw that I alone must take responsibility for...”

He chuckled.

“But it seems my poor, gentle grandfather has a lot more to answer for than my eyes and my abilities.”

The Lion's Mane: Sorrow

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Canon Story: The Lion's Mane
Title: Sorrow (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: PG
Warning for canon character death.

I have accepted Holmes invitation to spend a weekend at his cottage.  It was tactfully made, for he understands my grief.  It will be a relief to speak freely of my loss, in a way I dare not generally do.  For when I lost Mary I could mourn openly, this loss, equal in pain, must be kept within my heart.