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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, is this week’s suggested poem to read—a suggestion inspired by the themes and subjects in this week's story. Hopefully you will enjoy the poem, and perhaps it 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.
Hatred and Vengeance, My Eternal Portion
by William Cowper
Note from Rachel: Mr. Blessington lived in fear that the men he had betrayed would track him down. This poem is about the suffering that a guilty man feels awaiting punishment. It makes a reference to "Abiram," which I had to look up to understand: Biblically, he was a conspirator against Moses. In the end, "He and all the conspirators, with their families and possessions, were swallowed up by the ground."
Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the bref double. (The link takes 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, florette, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, In Memoriam stanza, 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 Resident Patient 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, is this week’s suggested poem to read—a suggestion inspired by the themes and subjects in this week's story. Hopefully you will enjoy the poem, and perhaps it 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.
by William Cowper
Note from Rachel: Mr. Blessington lived in fear that the men he had betrayed would track him down. This poem is about the suffering that a guilty man feels awaiting punishment. It makes a reference to "Abiram," which I had to look up to understand: Biblically, he was a conspirator against Moses. In the end, "He and all the conspirators, with their families and possessions, were swallowed up by the ground."
Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the bref double. (The link takes 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, florette, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, In Memoriam stanza, 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 Resident Patient in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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Clerihew
Date: 2016-07-10 07:29 am (UTC)Had a patient, a paranoid hellion
Feared murder and thieves, bolted windows and doors
But his old prison mates left him hanging, of course
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Date: 2016-07-10 03:47 pm (UTC)Bref Double Turco
Date: 2016-07-10 11:45 am (UTC)And mostly unhealthy weather
But in the evening they could walk
And took a stroll along Fleet Street
They wandered along the busy Strand
And turning made their way back again
Holmes observed all those around
The innocent and those who cheat
Watson listened to Holmes talk
And make inference of all they saw
And where a chance encounter
Was instead a deliberate ploy to greet
Then home to a tale of a man in pain
With a past which continued to stalk
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Date: 2016-07-10 04:54 pm (UTC)A bref double
Date: 2016-07-10 12:17 pm (UTC)An alternate beginning: RESI starting with CARD
It makes you consider what else might have been
A Sussex Vampire tangling with a spectral Hound
A Silver Blaze shining with a Golden Pince-Nez
Twisted Lip, Devil’s Foot, with an Engineer’s Thumb
Perhaps a few Dancing Men down at Scotland Yard?
Retired Colourman in Scarlet, Yellow and BLUE
A Red Circle with a Missing Three-Quarter, say
The Three Students are to Priory School bound
Five Orange Pips lead to strange Copper Beeches
A Solitary Cyclist rides through the Valley of Fear
Lady Frances meets NOBL on his wedding day
Unlikely? If we look at fanfiction’s avant garde
There’s surely much stranger ideas to be found
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Date: 2016-07-10 12:38 pm (UTC)Fez on a ferret anyone?
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Date: 2016-07-10 04:10 pm (UTC)Not to mention what happens when all those Marys and Violets clutter up the parlour all at once.
Re: A bref double
Date: 2016-07-10 04:32 pm (UTC)You know, I keep meaning to go through the stories and count how often each name comes up. ACD certainly does have quite a few favourites.
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Date: 2016-07-10 06:42 pm (UTC)silly attempt at bref double turco
Date: 2016-07-10 12:22 pm (UTC)“My dear Holmes!” I ejaculated.
Words assembled in exclamation,
yet say much more when severed, transposed.
“My dear, I—!” Holmes ejaculated.
suggests alarm, endearment exchanged.
I, Holmes, ejaculated. “My dear—!“
reveals much more than reader supposed.
One draws near logic’s degradation…
“Dear, I ejaculated my Holmes!”
“Holmes, my ejaculated dear! I—“
…with permutations writ, exposed.
En fin, one reverts to text unchanged
and Victorian denotation.
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Date: 2016-07-10 05:03 pm (UTC)A Housemaid's Bref Double
Date: 2016-07-10 02:17 pm (UTC)certainly keeps a maid on her toes.
Last month, I barely had time to begin
digging new bullets out of the wall
before I was surprised with an undercover
mission. Forced to abandon my laundry,
I followed our gallant employers through
intrigues and dangers at Justice's call.
Yet, even while grappling with diabolically
enlarged vermin of Sumatran breed, my
thoughts often turned to the kitchen of 221B,
where my absence was surely causing chagrin.
Home at last! Happy day! …but, dear me,
What has happened to all of the gin?
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Date: 2016-07-10 03:13 pm (UTC)RE: A Housemaid's Bref Double
Date: 2016-07-10 04:51 pm (UTC)Re: A Housemaid's Bref Double
Date: 2016-07-10 04:55 pm (UTC)And what an excellent way to recount your adventures.
Re: A Housemaid's Bref Double
Date: 2016-07-10 04:55 pm (UTC)Rather shocked to hear you had to indulge in hand to paw combat "with diabolically enlarged vermin of Sumatran breed". But I'm sure Mrs. Hudson will be touched to hear how the housework was always uppermost in your mind. Probably best not to bring up the subject of the gin with her though - just quietly replenish and move on ^^"
Rachel's poem
Date: 2016-07-10 03:18 pm (UTC)I also like the little footnote: poem is also known under title "Lines Written During a Fit of Insanity" which I think I am going to adopt as my fanfic signature.
Re: Rachel's poem
Date: 2016-07-10 04:57 pm (UTC)