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sherlock60Welcome 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 the renga.
Young Writers gives this definition:
Renga, means 'linked poem'. Poets worked in pairs or small groups, taking turns composing the alternating three-line and two-line stanzas.
To create a Renga, one poet writes the first stanza, which is three lines long with a total of seventeen syllables – the same structure as a haiku. The next poet adds the second stanza, a couplet with seven syllables per line. The third stanza repeats the structure of the first (another haiku) and the fourth repeats the second, alternating in this pattern until the poem is completed.
As a renga cannot be written on one’s own, I asked my friend Mrs. Turner if she would not mind assisting me with the composition of this poem:
Mr. Holmes returned
I longed for this to happen
But had thought him dead
Yes, I did hear the screaming
I shall call and console you
The Doctor moved back
I had missed the dear man but
He makes his friend worse
Please sit down and rest yourself
I shall make you hot, sweet tea
Mr. Lestrade came
My tenants have formed a choir
With constables too
Stay calm now, Mrs. Hudson
I am coming with the gin
My grateful thanks to Mrs. Turner. I do not know what I’d do without her.
As always, this is simply something to consider for the future. 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, blackout poetry, call and response, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, epigram, epulaeryu, fable, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, palindrome poetry, renga, riddle, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triolet, tyburn, villanelle
Please leave all your poems inspired by The Norwood Builder in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Warm regards,
Mrs. Hudson
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 the renga.
Young Writers gives this definition:
Renga, means 'linked poem'. Poets worked in pairs or small groups, taking turns composing the alternating three-line and two-line stanzas.
To create a Renga, one poet writes the first stanza, which is three lines long with a total of seventeen syllables – the same structure as a haiku. The next poet adds the second stanza, a couplet with seven syllables per line. The third stanza repeats the structure of the first (another haiku) and the fourth repeats the second, alternating in this pattern until the poem is completed.
As a renga cannot be written on one’s own, I asked my friend Mrs. Turner if she would not mind assisting me with the composition of this poem:
I longed for this to happen
But had thought him dead
Yes, I did hear the screaming
I shall call and console you
The Doctor moved back
I had missed the dear man but
He makes his friend worse
Please sit down and rest yourself
I shall make you hot, sweet tea
Mr. Lestrade came
My tenants have formed a choir
With constables too
Stay calm now, Mrs. Hudson
I am coming with the gin
My grateful thanks to Mrs. Turner. I do not know what I’d do without her.
As always, this is simply something to consider for the future. 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, blackout poetry, call and response, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, epigram, epulaeryu, fable, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, palindrome poetry, renga, riddle, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triolet, tyburn, villanelle
Please leave all your poems inspired by The Norwood Builder in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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Beginning of a renga (please feel free to continue it…)
Date: 2015-08-16 07:06 am (UTC)Say the magic word
The Norwood builder appears
In a puff of smoke
Re: Beginning of a renga (please feel free to continue it…)
Date: 2015-08-16 07:16 am (UTC)Such a vicious expression!
Re: Beginning of a renga (please feel free to continue it…)
Date: 2015-08-16 07:38 am (UTC)(Lestrade stares hard at Watson)
"I mean Oldacre!"
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Date: 2015-08-16 10:22 am (UTC)Perhaps a bulldog, next time.
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Date: 2015-08-16 02:23 pm (UTC)No animal similes
Stop being 'beastly'
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Date: 2015-08-16 04:09 pm (UTC)Heads off towards the cupboard
RE: Re: Beginning of a renga (please feel free to continue it…)
Date: 2015-08-16 05:11 pm (UTC)"Lestrade, I shall compare thee
To a summer's day."
Re: Beginning of a renga (please feel free to continue it…)
Date: 2015-08-16 06:32 pm (UTC)And want to take my shirt off."
Re: Beginning of a renga (please feel free to continue it…)
Date: 2015-08-17 12:38 pm (UTC)And walks towards the cupboard
Brandishing her mop
Re: Beginning of a renga (please feel free to continue it…)
Date: 2015-08-17 06:06 pm (UTC)But she cleans the floor with them
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Date: 2015-08-16 05:25 pm (UTC)Re: Beginning of a renga (please feel free to continue it…)
Date: 2015-08-16 06:34 pm (UTC)Limerick: The Original “Nice Guy”
Date: 2015-08-16 07:17 am (UTC)He couldn’t take “no” for an answer;
The builder’s frame done
To hang her poor son –
But that thumbprint led to the right man, sir.
Re: Limerick: The Original “Nice Guy”
Date: 2015-08-16 07:49 am (UTC)It was such a horrible thing to do - try and have a woman's son killed because she'd rejected Oldacre all those years ago.
Re: Limerick: The Original “Nice Guy”
Date: 2015-08-16 04:02 pm (UTC)I was pretty chuffed at coming up with "frame" and linking it to Jonas' profession - hanging her son just like a picture in his house, a trophy of his plot.
RE: Limerick: The Original “Nice Guy”
Date: 2015-08-16 11:14 am (UTC)Re: Limerick: The Original “Nice Guy”
Date: 2015-08-16 04:11 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Limerick: The Original “Nice Guy”
Date: 2015-08-16 05:04 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick: The Original “Nice Guy”
Date: 2015-08-16 04:04 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick: The Original “Nice Guy”
Date: 2015-08-16 04:16 pm (UTC)Maybe that's why we react so strongly to this story. You don't run into Criminal Masterminds or Red-Headed Bank-robbers outside of a story, but the news is full of stories of women who've had to deal with twisted vengeful male stalkers like Jonas Oldacre.
Re: Regret?
Date: 2015-08-16 02:31 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Regret?
Date: 2015-08-16 05:00 pm (UTC)Re: Regret?
Date: 2015-08-16 04:06 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Regret?
Date: 2015-08-16 05:01 pm (UTC)Re: Regret?
Date: 2015-08-16 04:21 pm (UTC)Since that day at the Reichenbach Falls.
Another brilliant offering.
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Date: 2015-08-16 05:02 pm (UTC)The poetry of Mrs H and Mrs T
Date: 2015-08-16 11:12 am (UTC)Re: The poetry of Mrs H and Mrs T
Date: 2015-08-16 02:26 pm (UTC)Re: The poetry of Mrs H and Mrs T
Date: 2015-08-16 02:27 pm (UTC)Re: The poetry of Mrs H and Mrs T
Date: 2015-08-16 04:07 pm (UTC)RE: Re: The poetry of Mrs H and Mrs T
Date: 2015-08-16 04:58 pm (UTC)I'm sure this form has a name
Date: 2015-08-16 03:53 pm (UTC)The policeman’s choir
Draws attention to lots of smoke
Fire! Fire!
The flames grow higher
Brings from hiding the wanted bloke
Re: I'm sure this form has a name
Date: 2015-08-16 04:28 pm (UTC)He did conspire
To wound his suitor and flee his debts.
Fire! Fire!
And Holmes' desire
For worthy cases brings him regrets.
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Date: 2015-08-16 05:22 pm (UTC)Re: I'm sure this form has a name
Date: 2015-08-16 09:19 pm (UTC)The funeral pyre
Contained nothing but rabbit bones
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Date: 2015-08-16 06:37 pm (UTC)Re: I'm sure this form has a name
Date: 2015-08-16 06:44 pm (UTC)