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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 mini-monoverse.
Shadow Poetry gives this definition:
The Mini-monoverse is a poetry form originated by Emily Romano. Each Mini-monoverse is made up of two stanzas of five three-syllable lines. The rhyme scheme is a/a/a/a/a for the first stanza and b/b/b/b/b for the second stanza. For a double Mini-monoverse just add two more stanzas. The rhyme scheme for the third stanza should be c/c/c/c/c and for the fourth stanza, d/d/d/d/d. It is desirable that the Mini-monoverse tell a story, but this is not a hard and fast rule.
Here is my example poem, a poignant tale of Mr. Holmes missing the Doctor and wishing to communicate with him often:
If I’d known
when alone
you were prone
to oft drone
down my ‘phone...
(Want to kill.
Use a drill..?
Poison pill..?)
If you will:
pay the bill.
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, ballad, beeswing, blackout poetry, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, epigram, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, mathnawī, mini-monoverse, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quintilla, renga, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle
Please leave all your poems inspired by The Blanched Soldier 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 mini-monoverse.
Shadow Poetry gives this definition:
The Mini-monoverse is a poetry form originated by Emily Romano. Each Mini-monoverse is made up of two stanzas of five three-syllable lines. The rhyme scheme is a/a/a/a/a for the first stanza and b/b/b/b/b for the second stanza. For a double Mini-monoverse just add two more stanzas. The rhyme scheme for the third stanza should be c/c/c/c/c and for the fourth stanza, d/d/d/d/d. It is desirable that the Mini-monoverse tell a story, but this is not a hard and fast rule.
Here is my example poem, a poignant tale of Mr. Holmes missing the Doctor and wishing to communicate with him often:
when alone
you were prone
to oft drone
down my ‘phone...
(Want to kill.
Use a drill..?
Poison pill..?)
If you will:
pay the bill.
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, ballad, beeswing, blackout poetry, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, epigram, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, mathnawī, mini-monoverse, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quintilla, renga, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle
Please leave all your poems inspired by The Blanched Soldier in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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A clerihew
Date: 2016-02-28 08:05 am (UTC)Searches for God.
Moving heaven and earth
Reveals Em’s-worth.
Re: A clerihew
Date: 2016-02-28 08:11 am (UTC)Limerick
Date: 2016-02-28 08:12 am (UTC)His family says, “Let it go.”
No leprosy parts
Two stout, loyal hearts –
But a new wife just might make that so.
Re: A clerihew
Date: 2016-02-28 08:28 am (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-02-28 08:34 am (UTC)The Final Word on the Subject
Date: 2016-02-28 09:52 am (UTC)Was not as strange as it seemed
He had been living elsewhere for some years
Married again, or so it was deemed.
In truth, he was living quite happily
In lodgings not far from Baker Street
With a well-known detective inspector
But to say so was not quite appropreet.
The arrangement suited all three quite nicely
Mrs Hudson uttered not a word
And to postulate any other solution
Would really be utterly absurd.
Re: A clerihew
Date: 2016-02-28 09:54 am (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-02-28 09:56 am (UTC)RE: The Final Word on the Subject
Date: 2016-02-28 10:08 am (UTC)Inspector and physician
I would not dream of challenging
A friend's long held position.
~0~
And appropriate spelling?
I'm not telling...
~0~
Re: The Final Word on the Subject
Date: 2016-02-28 12:26 pm (UTC)With the words which I have written
And any questions on how they're spelt
I am not admitten.
Re: Mini mono-verse: Malady
Date: 2016-02-28 12:28 pm (UTC)Re: Written earlier: Lost without my Boswell?
Date: 2016-02-28 12:29 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-02-28 01:00 pm (UTC)Re: A clerihew
Date: 2016-02-28 01:01 pm (UTC)Re: The Final Word on the Subject
Date: 2016-02-28 01:09 pm (UTC)Re: Mini mono-verse: Malady
Date: 2016-02-28 01:10 pm (UTC)Re: Written earlier: Lost without my Boswell?
Date: 2016-02-28 01:15 pm (UTC)attempt mini monoverse
Date: 2016-02-28 01:17 pm (UTC)Sadness rife
Cuts like knife
Source of strife?
Watson's wife
Holmes alone
Left to moan
Sigh and groan
And to phone
"Please come home!"
Re: The Final Word on the Subject
Date: 2016-02-28 01:26 pm (UTC)Re: A clerihew
Date: 2016-02-28 02:09 pm (UTC)Re: A clerihew
Date: 2016-02-28 02:10 pm (UTC)Re: The Final Word on the Subject
Date: 2016-02-28 02:13 pm (UTC)Re: Mini mono-verse: Malady
Date: 2016-02-28 02:18 pm (UTC)Re: A clerihew
Date: 2016-02-28 02:22 pm (UTC)Re: The Final Word on the Subject
Date: 2016-02-28 02:23 pm (UTC)