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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 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:


Pipe


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

Re: At the Gasfitters’ Ball: an anagram poem

Date: 2015-02-22 12:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com
I am sure this is extremely clever dear, but I am slightly baffled by some of the wording.

Re: At the Gasfitters’ Ball: an anagram poem

Date: 2015-02-22 03:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com
I have seen the after effects from when various people have been locked in my broom cupboard. I was not aware that they had been "moshing", in my day it was referred to with other terms.

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)
From: [identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com
And now I see that there is already a queue outside the broom cupboard, with various police inspectors who wish to try "moshing".

Re: At the Gasfitters’ Ball: an anagram poem

Date: 2015-02-22 03:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tardisjournal.livejournal.com
Fascinating! This reveals Miss Sutherland's "inner monologue" to be surprisingly primitive. Perhaps Waston was not being as dismissive as I first thought when he referred to her as "vacuous."

(Anagrams ahoy! I love it!)
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Re: A hybrid Terza Rima written earlier

Date: 2015-02-22 12:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com
That is incredible - the whole story in complicated rhyme.

Re: A hybrid Terza Rima written earlier

Date: 2015-02-22 01:21 pm (UTC)
debriswoman: (cat and mouse)
From: [personal profile] debriswoman
Thank you kindly:-)

Re: A hybrid Terza Rima written earlier

Date: 2015-02-22 03:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tardisjournal.livejournal.com
Splendid! You've captured all the intrigue and drama of the story and made it even more compelling. Amazing work.

Re: A hybrid Terza Rima written earlier

Date: 2015-02-22 07:05 pm (UTC)
debriswoman: (cat and mouse)
From: [personal profile] debriswoman
Thank you:-)

Re: A hybrid Terza Rima written earlier

Date: 2015-02-22 07:06 pm (UTC)
debriswoman: (cat and mouse)
From: [personal profile] debriswoman
Thank you...and that occurred to me when matching tale to form...pleased you thought so.

Re: A hybrid Terza Rima written earlier

Date: 2015-02-23 11:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] morelindo.livejournal.com
This is fantastic! You're so good at poetry, wow.

Re: A hybrid Terza Rima written earlier

Date: 2015-02-24 07:41 am (UTC)
debriswoman: (cat and mouse)
From: [personal profile] debriswoman
Thank you very much:-)

The poetry of Mrs H

Date: 2015-02-22 10:53 am (UTC)
debriswoman: (cat and mouse)
From: [personal profile] debriswoman
Nicely done Mrs H:-)
Unable to format concrete poem with comment restrictions...hence deletion, by the way.
Edited Date: 2015-02-22 10:55 am (UTC)

Re: The poetry of Mrs H

Date: 2015-02-22 12:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com
I am sure that if you wish to share a comment poem we would be delighted if you were to post it elsewhere and provide a link. I have frequently heard Dr Watson complain about the difficulties of these new fangled methods.

221b verselet

Date: 2015-02-22 12:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com
Eternally missed
Gone forever
Vanished
Bridegroom

Re: 221b verselet

Date: 2015-02-22 03:59 pm (UTC)

Re: 221b verselet

Date: 2015-02-22 03:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tardisjournal.livejournal.com
That's it in a nutshell. Well-done!

Re: 221b verselet

Date: 2015-02-22 04:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com
Thank you very much.

Re: 221b verselet

Date: 2015-02-22 04:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com
I may yet consider trying concrete poetry another week. I'm a form or two behind you and debriswoman.
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Re: Concrete Denial

Date: 2015-02-22 07:08 pm (UTC)
debriswoman: (cat and mouse)
From: [personal profile] debriswoman
Thank you:-)
And a shilling for the delivery boy....sorry about that.

Re: Concrete Denial

Date: 2015-02-22 04:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com
That is extremely clever. I'm glad you managed to persuade it to post.

Re: Concrete Denial

Date: 2015-02-22 07:08 pm (UTC)
debriswoman: (cat and mouse)
From: [personal profile] debriswoman
Thank you...it put up quite a fight:-p

Mrs Hudson's concrete poem

Date: 2015-02-22 04:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tardisjournal.livejournal.com
An appropriately sassy reply to an audacious valentine, complete with a punny reference to the form! Mrs Hudson, I do believe you've missed your calling. :)

Re: Mrs Hudson's concrete poem

Date: 2015-02-23 12:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tardisjournal.livejournal.com
Oh yes, I've heard of that agent--he has made quite a name for himself here in America as well. Thanks to his efforts we get to enjoy Dr Watson's accounts the very month that they are published in England if we are lucky, as we were in the case of this Adventure. As he has such influence, it'd definitely be worth seeing what he could do for you. :)

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