Welcome once again to my poetry page!
I hope each week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative and then be inspired 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.
This week my featured form is concrete poetry.
poets.org gives the following definition:
While many readers now associate the term “concrete poetry” with poems whose outlines depict a recognizable shape, the ideas behind concrete poetry are much broader. In essence, works of concrete poetry are as much pieces of visual art made with words as they are poems.
It was Miss Sutherland’s profession that inspired me to borrow one of those newfangled typewriters and have a go at producing poetry of this kind. My poem is specifically a reply to a Valentine that I received from a certain “mysterious admirer” last week:

As always, this is simply something to consider for the future. (I await with interest seeing concrete poems in the comments…) Any form of poetry is welcome this week—and every week! Here are a few suggestions for you:
221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, clerihew, concrete poetry, epigram, haiku, limerick, palindrome poetry, sedoka, sestina, sonnet, tanka, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triolet, tyburn, villanelle
Please leave all your poems inspired by A Case of Identity in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
I hope each week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative and then be inspired 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.
This week my featured form is concrete poetry.
poets.org gives the following definition:
While many readers now associate the term “concrete poetry” with poems whose outlines depict a recognizable shape, the ideas behind concrete poetry are much broader. In essence, works of concrete poetry are as much pieces of visual art made with words as they are poems.
It was Miss Sutherland’s profession that inspired me to borrow one of those newfangled typewriters and have a go at producing poetry of this kind. My poem is specifically a reply to a Valentine that I received from a certain “mysterious admirer” last week:

As always, this is simply something to consider for the future. (I await with interest seeing concrete poems in the comments…) Any form of poetry is welcome this week—and every week! Here are a few suggestions for you:
221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, clerihew, concrete poetry, epigram, haiku, limerick, palindrome poetry, sedoka, sestina, sonnet, tanka, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triolet, tyburn, villanelle
Please leave all your poems inspired by A Case of Identity in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Warm regards,
Mrs. Hudson
Mrs. Hudson
At the Gasfitters’ Ball: an anagram poem
Date: 2015-02-22 08:22 am (UTC)General mosh.
Hams erelong:
Me large nosh!
Gosh, real men!
“So, eh, Mr… Angel..?”
“Hosmer Angel.”
Re: At the Gasfitters’ Ball: an anagram poem
Date: 2015-02-22 10:00 am (UTC)Re: At the Gasfitters’ Ball: an anagram poem
Date: 2015-02-22 03:41 pm (UTC)Re: At the Gasfitters’ Ball: an anagram poem
Date: 2015-02-22 12:46 pm (UTC)Re: At the Gasfitters’ Ball: an anagram poem
Date: 2015-02-22 03:45 pm (UTC)Grab Mr. Holmes, Dr. Watson and the gramophone, lock all of you in the broom cupboard, and have a go!
Re: At the Gasfitters’ Ball: an anagram poem
Date: 2015-02-22 03:58 pm (UTC)And no, I will most certainly not try this experiment.
Re: At the Gasfitters’ Ball: an anagram poem
Date: 2015-02-22 03:59 pm (UTC)Re: At the Gasfitters’ Ball: an anagram poem
Date: 2015-02-22 03:40 pm (UTC)(Anagrams ahoy! I love it!)
Re: At the Gasfitters’ Ball: an anagram poem
Date: 2015-02-22 04:15 pm (UTC)Re: A hybrid Terza Rima written earlier
Date: 2015-02-22 12:53 pm (UTC)Re: A hybrid Terza Rima written earlier
Date: 2015-02-22 01:21 pm (UTC)Re: A hybrid Terza Rima written earlier
Date: 2015-02-22 03:56 pm (UTC)Re: A hybrid Terza Rima written earlier
Date: 2015-02-22 07:05 pm (UTC)Re: A hybrid Terza Rima written earlier
Date: 2015-02-22 04:39 pm (UTC)~o~
Coincidence, cross-purpose and event
Form wonderful and complicated chains;
A rather appropriate theme for terza rima ^^ Wonderful work as always.
Re: A hybrid Terza Rima written earlier
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Date: 2015-02-23 11:45 pm (UTC)Re: A hybrid Terza Rima written earlier
Date: 2015-02-24 07:41 am (UTC)The poetry of Mrs H
Date: 2015-02-22 10:53 am (UTC)Unable to format concrete poem with comment restrictions...hence deletion, by the way.
Re: The poetry of Mrs H
Date: 2015-02-22 12:52 pm (UTC)Re: The poetry of Mrs H
Date: 2015-02-22 04:42 pm (UTC)221b verselet
Date: 2015-02-22 12:43 pm (UTC)Gone forever
Vanished
Bridegroom
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Date: 2015-02-22 04:11 pm (UTC)Re: Concrete Denial
Date: 2015-02-22 04:00 pm (UTC)But your final version is excellent. An inspired idea - and a rather accurate comment on Mrs. Windibank's behaviour. She's revealing here more of her motivations than she intended...
Re: Concrete Denial
Date: 2015-02-22 07:08 pm (UTC)And a shilling for the delivery boy....sorry about that.
Re: Concrete Denial
Date: 2015-02-22 04:00 pm (UTC)Re: Concrete Denial
Date: 2015-02-22 07:08 pm (UTC)Mrs Hudson's concrete poem
Date: 2015-02-22 04:02 pm (UTC)Re: Mrs Hudson's concrete poem
Date: 2015-02-22 04:20 pm (UTC)I must say, I am considering approaching Dr. Watson's agent (a Mr. Conan Doyle) about the possibility of having my modest volume of verse published...
Re: Mrs Hudson's concrete poem
Date: 2015-02-23 12:13 am (UTC)