sherlock60 | Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Solitary Cyclist

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 the poem cycle.

Oxford Dictionaries gives this definition:

A series of… poems composed around a particular theme, and usually intended to be performed or read in sequence...

I have chosen to write a series of 221B verselets around the theme of my learning to ride a bicycle. And so, as my example, I present to you The Bicycle Cycle:

By pedalling
Bicycle became
Cycling
Biped

To skirt
Mishaps wore
Cycling
Bloomers

Sped like
A train
(Tender
Behind)

Mr. Holmes
Has borrowed
My
Bicycle

Should I
Have mentioned
Faulty
Brakes?

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, pantoum, poem cycle, renga, riddle, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triolet, tyburn, villanelle

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

Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson