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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.
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
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!
Mrs. Hudson
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lanture x 3
Date: 2016-05-22 07:30 am (UTC)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
Clerihew
Date: 2016-05-22 07:49 am (UTC)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
Date: 2016-05-22 09:56 am (UTC)Rachel's poems
Date: 2016-05-22 09:59 am (UTC)And the second is sweet. And true (for dog lovers).
A lanturne
Date: 2016-05-22 10:08 am (UTC)and dog.
The bark was
much worse than the
bite.
lanturne for ACD
Date: 2016-05-22 10:19 am (UTC)for the
detective!
Happy Birthday
Doyle!
RE: A lanturne
Date: 2016-05-22 10:23 am (UTC)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: lanture x 3
Date: 2016-05-22 11:30 am (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2016-05-22 11:34 am (UTC)Re: A lanturne
Date: 2016-05-22 11:38 am (UTC)It surprises me in the story that young Trevor has no friends but Holmes. He seems the extroverted type. I do wonder if he and his dog are a bit socially inept - bounding up with enthusiasm but not quite understanding the rules and annoying everyone.
Re: lanturne for ACD
Date: 2016-05-22 11:42 am (UTC)Yes, indeed - happy birthday, Sir Arthur and thanks for everything!
Re: lanture x 3
Date: 2016-05-22 12:47 pm (UTC)Re: lanturne for ACD
Date: 2016-05-22 12:49 pm (UTC)Re: A lanturne
Date: 2016-05-22 12:52 pm (UTC)Yeah, and I would think (cynically) that in a place like Oxbridge (or wherever) Trevor's position and his nice home would ease the way for him socially. Right? I scratched my head at why he was friendless too. Maybe Doyle was thinking of someone.
lanturne
Date: 2016-05-22 12:58 pm (UTC)his. Changed
a path, course.
"This is your line."
Mine.
221B
Date: 2016-05-22 04:28 pm (UTC)Unusual friendship
Serendipitous
Bite
RE: lanture x 3
Date: 2016-05-22 04:31 pm (UTC)RE: Clerihew
Date: 2016-05-22 04:32 pm (UTC)RE: A lanturne
Date: 2016-05-22 04:33 pm (UTC)RE: lanturne for ACD
Date: 2016-05-22 04:33 pm (UTC)Nicely done:-)
RE: lanturne
Date: 2016-05-22 04:34 pm (UTC)RE: 221B
Date: 2016-05-22 04:35 pm (UTC)Re: lanture x 3
Date: 2016-05-22 04:41 pm (UTC)Re: A lanturne
Date: 2016-05-22 04:48 pm (UTC)Re: 221B
Date: 2016-05-22 04:50 pm (UTC)