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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, inspired by Mr. Holmes’s remark to the Doctor: "Cut out the poetry, Watson", my featured form is micropoetry.
Micropoetry.com gives this definition:
Be creative! Poetry with limited characters. 140 with Twitter. 160 with SMS :-)
Micropoetry.com was set up to encourage people to write creatively within the small amount of text space provided in social networks platforms like twitter and on our mobile phone SMS. We aim to demonstrate that although your message may be limited in the amount of characters that you can use; your actual message content is unlimited in the amount of feelings, ideas, and emotions that you can express.
Yes…
Well, I am not quite sure what all this means. But Mrs. Frankles assured me that as long as all the letters, punctuation marks, symbols and spaces in my poem added up to 160 characters or less, it would be fine.
And so here is my example poem—160 characters, including spaces:
Purples, violets, lemons & limes
I’ve repainted 221B 43 times.
I am blue.
(My language too.)
Red, grape, burgundy, claret
Mr. Holmes can find himself another garret.
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, micropoetry, 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 Retired Colourman 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, inspired by Mr. Holmes’s remark to the Doctor: "Cut out the poetry, Watson", my featured form is micropoetry.
Micropoetry.com gives this definition:
Be creative! Poetry with limited characters. 140 with Twitter. 160 with SMS :-)
Micropoetry.com was set up to encourage people to write creatively within the small amount of text space provided in social networks platforms like twitter and on our mobile phone SMS. We aim to demonstrate that although your message may be limited in the amount of characters that you can use; your actual message content is unlimited in the amount of feelings, ideas, and emotions that you can express.
Yes…
Well, I am not quite sure what all this means. But Mrs. Frankles assured me that as long as all the letters, punctuation marks, symbols and spaces in my poem added up to 160 characters or less, it would be fine.
And so here is my example poem—160 characters, including spaces:
I’ve repainted 221B 43 times.
I am blue.
(My language too.)
Red, grape, burgundy, claret
Mr. Holmes can find himself another garret.
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, micropoetry, 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 Retired Colourman in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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Limerick
Date: 2016-03-13 08:09 am (UTC)That nonetheless reeks of fresh paint.
The smell it conceals
From a gas-pipe reveals
How he dealt with his faithless wife’s plaint.
Micropoem
Date: 2016-03-13 09:59 am (UTC)So very familiar
Covers that of gas
Destroys the family
Playing chess
A favourite game
Tactics as always excelling
Opponent vanquished
Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-03-13 10:01 am (UTC)Re: Micro poetry: A moment of empathy.
Date: 2016-03-13 01:01 pm (UTC)Re: Written earlier: A Terzanelle
Date: 2016-03-13 01:03 pm (UTC)Re: Written earlier: Charm
Date: 2016-03-13 01:04 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-03-13 02:27 pm (UTC)Re: Micropoem
Date: 2016-03-13 02:28 pm (UTC)Re: Micro poetry: A moment of empathy.
Date: 2016-03-13 02:29 pm (UTC)Re: Written earlier: Charm
Date: 2016-03-13 02:30 pm (UTC)Re: Written earlier: A Terzanelle
Date: 2016-03-13 02:31 pm (UTC)Re: Micropoem
Date: 2016-03-13 02:43 pm (UTC)Your poem, Mrs H
Date: 2016-03-13 02:45 pm (UTC)RE: Limerick
Date: 2016-03-13 05:28 pm (UTC)RE: Micropoem
Date: 2016-03-13 05:28 pm (UTC)RE: Your poem, Mrs H
Date: 2016-03-13 05:30 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Written earlier: Charm
Date: 2016-03-13 05:33 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Written earlier: Charm
Date: 2016-03-13 05:34 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Written earlier: A Terzanelle
Date: 2016-03-13 05:35 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Written earlier: A Terzanelle
Date: 2016-03-13 05:36 pm (UTC)Re: Micropoem
Date: 2016-03-13 06:16 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-03-13 06:29 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-03-13 06:33 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-03-13 06:33 pm (UTC)Re: Micro poetry: A moment of empathy.
Date: 2016-03-13 06:35 pm (UTC)