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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 go on 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.
And here, courtesy of my housemaid Rachel, are this week’s suggested poems to read—suggestions inspired by the themes and subjects in this week's story. Hopefully you will enjoy the poems, and perhaps they may give you some ideas for a poem of your own or allow you to look at Dr. Watson's story in a new way.
Fragment
by Angelina Weld Grimke
Let No Charitable Hope
by Elinor Wylie
Note from Rachel: This first poem fragment was written by a woman of mixed race, the daughter of a white American abolitionist and an African American father. The poem reflects her pain and struggle. The second poem adopts similar themes, but has a quietly victorious conclusion – I’d like to imagine that the lovely young girl in Dr. Watson’s story will still be able to find happiness as she grows older despite the terrible injustices she will undoubtedly face.
Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the sedoka. (The link will take you back to a previous poetry page.)
But you do not have to use that form. 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, Fib, 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 Yellow Face 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 go on 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.
And here, courtesy of my housemaid Rachel, are this week’s suggested poems to read—suggestions inspired by the themes and subjects in this week's story. Hopefully you will enjoy the poems, and perhaps they may give you some ideas for a poem of your own or allow you to look at Dr. Watson's story in a new way.
Fragment
by Angelina Weld Grimke
Let No Charitable Hope
by Elinor Wylie
Note from Rachel: This first poem fragment was written by a woman of mixed race, the daughter of a white American abolitionist and an African American father. The poem reflects her pain and struggle. The second poem adopts similar themes, but has a quietly victorious conclusion – I’d like to imagine that the lovely young girl in Dr. Watson’s story will still be able to find happiness as she grows older despite the terrible injustices she will undoubtedly face.
Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the sedoka. (The link will take you back to a previous poetry page.)
But you do not have to use that form. 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, Fib, 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 Yellow Face in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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Limerick
Date: 2016-05-15 08:23 am (UTC)Her past life? He wants her to choose.
But Norbury’s lesson,
Has got Holmes confessin’
That pride is a good face to lose.
A sedoka
Date: 2016-05-15 09:38 am (UTC)A secret hidden.
I couldn’t bear to lose you
but dark or fair, she’s my own.
A secret revealed.
As pretty as her mother—
dark and fair, my little girl.
Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-05-15 10:38 am (UTC)Re: Also a sedoka
Date: 2016-05-15 10:43 am (UTC)And I think the moral of the story might be to take shorter walks ^_^
sedoka (remider that I ship Watson/the bootlacer at the Turkish bath)
Date: 2016-05-15 11:48 am (UTC)your pipe and watch, Watson, show
individuality.
Indeed, the fingers
that tied, untied me, Holmes, were
remarkably singular.
Re: Also a sedoka
Date: 2016-05-15 11:49 am (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-05-15 11:50 am (UTC)Re: A sedoka
Date: 2016-05-15 11:50 am (UTC)Rachel's poems
Date: 2016-05-15 11:53 am (UTC)Sedoka
Date: 2016-05-15 02:16 pm (UTC)The detective goes awry
And sees plots which are not there
In future Watson
Will recall one single word
For Holmes to take greater care
Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-05-15 02:18 pm (UTC)Re: A sedoka
Date: 2016-05-15 02:19 pm (UTC)Re: Also a sedoka
Date: 2016-05-15 02:20 pm (UTC)Re: sedoka (remider that I ship Watson/the bootlacer at the Turkish bath)
Date: 2016-05-15 02:21 pm (UTC)RE: Limerick
Date: 2016-05-15 02:36 pm (UTC)RE: A sedoka
Date: 2016-05-15 02:36 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Also a sedoka
Date: 2016-05-15 02:37 pm (UTC)And...yes
RE: Re: Also a sedoka
Date: 2016-05-15 02:37 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Also a sedoka
Date: 2016-05-15 02:39 pm (UTC)RE: sedoka (remider that I ship Watson/the bootlacer at the Turkish bath)
Date: 2016-05-15 02:39 pm (UTC)RE: Sedoka
Date: 2016-05-15 02:40 pm (UTC)Re: Sedoka
Date: 2016-05-15 03:20 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-05-15 04:11 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-05-15 04:13 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-05-15 04:17 pm (UTC)