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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.
There is no poem from Rachel this week, I’m afraid. My housemaid is presently “on secondment” to Mr. Holmes and will be working with him and Dr. Watson on a case for the next few weeks. (For heaven’s sake, Mr. Holmes—I realise justice cannot wait, but neither can the ironing.)
So, for the moment we are returning to having a new poetry form each week to try. And this week my featured form is acrostic poetry.
Writer’s Digest gives this definition:
The most basic form spells words out on the left-hand side of the page using the first letter of each line. The brave at heart can even try double acrostics–that is, spelling things out using the first and last letter of each line.
Here is my example poem, using the basic form:
The landlady’s outlook
Is pessimistic.
My glass half empty—
Endless push and pull.
Flavour of juniper,
Optimistic make me!
Return to me a
Glass half full!
(I’ll tell off my tenants by and by
Now I’ve got the bottle to try.)
But you do not have to use this form, if you do not wish to. 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 Valley of Fear 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.
There is no poem from Rachel this week, I’m afraid. My housemaid is presently “on secondment” to Mr. Holmes and will be working with him and Dr. Watson on a case for the next few weeks. (For heaven’s sake, Mr. Holmes—I realise justice cannot wait, but neither can the ironing.)
So, for the moment we are returning to having a new poetry form each week to try. And this week my featured form is acrostic poetry.
Writer’s Digest gives this definition:
The most basic form spells words out on the left-hand side of the page using the first letter of each line. The brave at heart can even try double acrostics–that is, spelling things out using the first and last letter of each line.
Here is my example poem, using the basic form:
Is pessimistic.
My glass half empty—
Endless push and pull.
Flavour of juniper,
Optimistic make me!
Return to me a
Glass half full!
(I’ll tell off my tenants by and by
Now I’ve got the bottle to try.)
But you do not have to use this form, if you do not wish to. 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 Valley of Fear in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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Limerick
Date: 2016-06-19 07:14 am (UTC)Researches till everything’s found;
A trap nets the “corpse”
(Mr. Douglas, of course).
…Now the backfill. (This one ain’t no Hound.)
An acrostic poem
Date: 2016-06-19 07:32 am (UTC)Dr. Watson hands it over:
“Umbrella, Holmes? For self-defence?”
Muddied waters clear though later—
Brolly borrowing makes more sense.
Brings on up a silent witness;
Erasing finally all doubt.
Lets two weights be reunited;
Lets the truth at last ring out.
RE: An acrostic poem
Date: 2016-06-19 11:26 am (UTC)RE: An acrostic poem
Date: 2016-06-19 11:27 am (UTC)RE: Limerick
Date: 2016-06-19 11:28 am (UTC)The poetry of Mrs H
Date: 2016-06-19 11:30 am (UTC)Acrostic Poem
Date: 2016-06-19 01:44 pm (UTC)Over the passage of time
Learns how people
Make giveaway signs
Embraces the clues
So the truth is seen
Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-06-19 01:45 pm (UTC)Re: An acrostic poem
Date: 2016-06-19 01:46 pm (UTC)Re: The poetry of Mrs H
Date: 2016-06-19 01:48 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-06-19 02:18 pm (UTC)Re: An acrostic poem
Date: 2016-06-19 02:22 pm (UTC)Re: An acrostic poem
Date: 2016-06-19 02:25 pm (UTC)Re: An acrostic poem
Date: 2016-06-19 02:26 pm (UTC)Re: Acrostic Poem
Date: 2016-06-19 02:28 pm (UTC)Re: Acrostic Poem
Date: 2016-06-19 02:31 pm (UTC)Re: Acrostic Poem
Date: 2016-06-19 03:05 pm (UTC)Re: Acrostic Poem
Date: 2016-06-19 03:36 pm (UTC)RE: Re: The poetry of Mrs H
Date: 2016-06-19 03:57 pm (UTC)RE: Acrostic Poem
Date: 2016-06-19 04:00 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-06-19 05:02 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-06-19 05:03 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-06-19 05:04 pm (UTC)Re: An acrostic poem
Date: 2016-06-19 05:06 pm (UTC)How ironic that "dumb"-bells would speak so eloquently of what happened.
Re: Acrostic Poem
Date: 2016-06-19 05:09 pm (UTC)Re: An acrostic poem
Date: 2016-06-19 05:36 pm (UTC)Re: An acrostic poem
Date: 2016-06-19 06:08 pm (UTC)Re: An acrostic poem
Date: 2016-06-19 06:35 pm (UTC)Re: Acrostic Poem
Date: 2016-06-19 08:21 pm (UTC)Re: Acrostic Poem
Date: 2016-06-19 08:21 pm (UTC)acrostic poem
Date: 2016-06-21 05:42 am (UTC)Shouts unanswered
Only my own stricken voice borne back to my own straining ears
My face pressed to earth, my heart interred in a dreadful cauldron of swirling water and seething foam
Every torn, bedraggled branch an invective: you left him to struggle, to suffer, to fail, to fall.
Fettered to the chasm
Endless recriminations
Errors of judgement
Left alone, adrift, unpaired, unmoored
In roaring silence
No. I won’t
Go.
Re: acrostic poem
Date: 2016-06-21 11:02 am (UTC)I love:
my heart interred in a dreadful cauldron of swirling water and seething foam
Every torn, bedraggled branch an invective
And those last two lines ^^" Great choice of phrase to spell out as well.
Re: acrostic poem
Date: 2016-06-21 12:09 pm (UTC)Re: acrostic poem
Date: 2016-06-23 08:13 pm (UTC)As to timeline (very wibbly wobbly). In FINA Watson has never heard of Moriarty therefore logically VALL comes after FINA, but Moriarty dies in FINA, so VALL must come before FINA. Personally, I think it would be easier to forget about VALL altogether, but my co-mod said it had to remain.
Re: acrostic poem
Date: 2016-06-23 09:07 pm (UTC)Re: acrostic poem
Date: 2016-06-23 09:25 pm (UTC)You know I always assume it's my failure to understand not ACD's failure to explain. Makes me feel better.
Co-mods? Can't live without them, can't change canon without the whinging :)
Re: acrostic poem
Date: 2016-06-23 09:33 pm (UTC)