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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.
Death
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Note from Rachel: This poem speaks to me of Paul Kratides, the long silence through which he resisted his captors, and the tragic end to his life.
Modern Declaration
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Note from Rachel: For Mycroft Holmes, I like this poem because it seems to me that his love for his brother is one of the aspects of his subtle, political, complicated life that has always remained steadfast, simple, and true.
Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the Tyburn. (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 Greek Interpreter 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.
Death
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Note from Rachel: This poem speaks to me of Paul Kratides, the long silence through which he resisted his captors, and the tragic end to his life.
Modern Declaration
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Note from Rachel: For Mycroft Holmes, I like this poem because it seems to me that his love for his brother is one of the aspects of his subtle, political, complicated life that has always remained steadfast, simple, and true.
Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the Tyburn. (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 Greek Interpreter in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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Limerick
Date: 2016-07-17 07:21 am (UTC)Interpreter caught in this war –
But the strangest of all
Is the way you recall
A brother not mentioned before!
Re: Limerick
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Date: 2016-07-17 09:03 am (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-07-17 04:06 pm (UTC)"John."
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Date: 2016-07-17 04:08 pm (UTC)A Tyburn
Date: 2016-07-17 08:58 am (UTC)Central
Locale
Pall Mall
Old pal
Mycroft’s in a central locale so
Let us now to Pall Mall, old pal, go!
(Look - I’ve had a very busy week ^^”)
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Date: 2016-07-17 04:43 pm (UTC)tyburn (warning for made-up words)
Date: 2016-07-17 10:11 am (UTC)Awaft
Made-soft
Mycroft
Scent of fresh bread aloft, awaft slays
Iron routine. Made-soft Mycroft strays.
Re: tyburn (warning for made-up words)
Date: 2016-07-17 10:52 am (UTC)Very clever ^__^
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Date: 2016-07-17 04:18 pm (UTC)parody song lyrics (Thomas & his friends)
Date: 2016-07-17 10:12 am (UTC)To the tune of the theme song of ‘Thomas and his Friends’ (cartoon)
They’re two, they’re two, they’re one, they’re B.
Solving puzzles, drinking tea.
Clever, witty, brave and kind.
Knots and tangles to unwind.
Friends and foes with roles to play.
Round London-town or far away.
‘pon the moor and round the bends
Sherlock and his friends.
Sherlock, he’s the brainy one.
Watson’s ready with his gun.
Yarders help from time to time.
[Mrs.] Hudson fights the crime o’ grime.
Mycroft though he knows his stuff
Never wants to huff or puff
From hall to Mall he never strays
But to kip down D’og’nes way!
They’re two, they’re six, they’re eight, they’re four.
Solving puzzles, crimes and more.
Nabbing Greeks and cursed gems.
Bodies floating in the Thames
(Whether) Vengeful thugs or scheming profs,
greedy squires or silly toffs,
Evil means will meet their ends
(With) Sherlock and his friends.
Re: parody song lyrics (Thomas & his friends)
Date: 2016-07-17 11:07 am (UTC)Oh, crikey - this is wonderful. Favourite lines:
They’re two, they’re two, they’re one, they’re B.
‘pon the moor and round the bends
[Mrs.] Hudson fights the crime o’ grime.
Mycroft though he knows his stuff/ Never wants to huff or puff
Evil means will meet their ends
I also loved the rhyme of 'profs' and 'toffs' ^^ And there's just something so entirely (and amusingly) inappropriate about 'Bodies floating in the Thames' being sung to such a cheerful tune ^__^
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Date: 2016-07-17 04:20 pm (UTC)A Verse (because the tyburn defeated me)
Date: 2016-07-17 11:32 am (UTC)And Mycroft the elder brother
One has to consider
That madness had seized the mother
Re: A Verse (because the tyburn defeated me)
Date: 2016-07-17 12:08 pm (UTC)Just 'cos brother doesn't rhyme with Pa.
Re: A Verse (because the tyburn defeated me)
Date: 2016-07-17 12:22 pm (UTC)Were each and everyone exactly the sames
So mama said she wasn't calling them all James
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