Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The 'Gloria Scott'

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Welcome 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.


Song of the Galley-Slaves

by Rudyard Kipling


Note from Rachel: This poem reminded me of James Armitage’s story.



If Feeling Isn’t In It

by John Brehm


Note from Rachel: Mr. Holmes owes a lot to Victor Trevor’s dog, doesn’t he? I like this celebration of simple loyalty and open emotion. I also like the line about how dogs instinctively bite ‘bringers of bad news’ – that fits Mr. Holmes all too well :)


Thank you so much to Rachel. (These young people and their typed faces. It will never catch on.) And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the lanturne. (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 ‘Gloria Scott’ in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!



Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

Comments

lanture x 3

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Fire-
flies dance
in tea leaves,
remind me of
you

Cup
of sweet
Darjeeling
reminds me of
you

Strife
at home
turns men's thoughts
to the sea and
tea

Re: lanture x 3

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Oh, they're lovely. I love the longing in the first two. And "fireflies dance" seems particularly apt in reference to Holmes - a man full of light and energy as he darts about making his observations and deductions.

RE: lanture x 3

[debriswoman]

Lovely work, wistful and entirely apt:-)

Re: lanture x 3

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

I can feel Trevor's longing in these.

Re: lanture x 3

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Very nice!

Clerihew

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Old Justice Trevor
Had one tie he could not sever
The game-birds’ bill came due one day
For the J.P. could not escape J.A.

RE: Clerihew

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Very nice. I like the rhyming and the play with the initials.

Re: Clerihew

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Echoing the applause for the wordplay with the initials - and game-birds' bill. Yes, the game was up and the pheasants came home to roost ^^

RE: Clerihew

[debriswoman]

Nice choice of words and use of initials:-)

Rachel's poems

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

I like the rhythm of the first one. It's like the rowing.
And the second is sweet. And true (for dog lovers).

Re: Rachel's poems

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I was really impressed by the imagery in the Kipling poem - how straightforward and realistic it seems.

And the end of the second is rather moving.

A lanturne

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

...the bark Gloria Scott, bound for Australia.




Ship
and dog.
The bark was
much worse than the
bite.

RE: A lanturne

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Hee, hee. Very nice and a pun too.

I was surprised that the dog was a bull terrier. They're usually friendly. Too friendly. They're so strong they can barrel over you. Maybe it thought Holmes' ankle was a toy.

RE: A lanturne

[debriswoman]

Very nice:-)

lanturne for ACD

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Thanks
for the
detective!
Happy Birthday
Doyle!

Re: lanturne for ACD

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I hadn't realised it was ACD's birthday! ^^" (Wonder if I sneak out now I can still get him a card...)

Yes, indeed - happy birthday, Sir Arthur and thanks for everything!

RE: lanturne for ACD

[debriswoman]

Gosh...a birthday:-)
Nicely done:-)

Re: lanturne for ACD

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Many Happy Returns, Sir Arthur, and thank you for your greatest creation ... er, Professor Challenger. Yeah, that's it.

lanturne

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Words,
his. Changed
a path, course.
"This is your line."
Mine.

RE: lanturne

[debriswoman]

Neatly done:-)

Re: lanturne

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I thought at first you were talking about yourself, and your discovery of fanfiction via Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. But of course it's Trevor senior talking to Holmes, isn't it? ^^ A moment that changed everything.

221B

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Curious introduction
Unusual friendship
Serendipitous
Bite

RE: 221B

[debriswoman]

Summed up beautifully:-)

Re: 221B

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

And everything bearing down on that last word, very much like a terrier's bite.

Re: Here's one I made earlier...

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

(starts laughing once I recognize the pattern) Oh no. Duck Hunt Part Deux. Run, Trevor, RUN!