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, 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.
Unfortunate Coincidence
by Dorothy Parker
Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: tongue twister poetry. (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 Noble Bachelor 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 Dorothy Parker
Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: tongue twister poetry. (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 Noble Bachelor in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
Limerick
Date: 2016-08-21 07:55 am (UTC)Holmes hails a cab for a ride,
Has a snack here and there,
And from out of thin air
He finds her – and her husband beside.
Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-08-21 01:56 pm (UTC)And that's a great final line.
Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-08-21 04:56 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-08-21 02:43 pm (UTC)Not quite what St Simon wanted.
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Date: 2016-08-21 04:57 pm (UTC)RE: Limerick
Date: 2016-08-21 04:11 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-08-21 05:01 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
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Date: 2016-08-24 05:49 am (UTC)A tongue-twister poem
Date: 2016-08-21 01:51 pm (UTC)St. Simon says: suspend all subordinate sessions!
And Sherlock surely shelves.
St. Simon says: Sleuth, search for spouse!
And Sherlock surely seeks.
Share the supper and shrive all slights!
(Says Sherlock. Didn’t say St. Simon says.)
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Date: 2016-08-24 08:55 am (UTC)Tongue twister
Date: 2016-08-21 02:42 pm (UTC)Mayhap a widgeon would have been warmer
Whilst whiling the time away playing whist
One can but wonder about the woodcock
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Date: 2016-08-21 04:10 pm (UTC)Re: Tongue twister
Date: 2016-08-21 05:24 pm (UTC)Re: Tongue twister
Date: 2016-08-21 04:41 pm (UTC)Re: Tongue twister
Date: 2016-08-21 05:25 pm (UTC)Re: Tongue twister
Date: 2016-08-21 05:15 pm (UTC)Watson clears throat. "No idea, Mary."
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Date: 2016-08-21 05:25 pm (UTC)Re: Tongue twister
Date: 2016-08-24 12:55 am (UTC)RE: Re: Tongue twister
Date: 2016-08-24 06:28 am (UTC)Re: Tongue twister: A noble bachelor reflects.
Date: 2016-08-21 05:16 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Tongue twister: A noble bachelor reflects.
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Date: 2016-08-24 12:58 am (UTC)RE: Re: Tongue twister: A noble bachelor reflects.
Date: 2016-08-24 06:09 am (UTC)The Woodcock Jacques (WARNING: adult language & themes)
Date: 2016-08-25 01:37 am (UTC)if the woodcock was named Jacques?
How much cock could a woodcock mock
if the woodcock was named Jacque?
How much cock could a woodcock hawk
if the woodcock was named Jacques?
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I’m uneasily queasy
poor Watson’s gots the trots (or the privy-squats or the belly-rots)
and it’s all account (that is, it’s all the lots)
of that schemin’ shamin’ pimpin’ woodcock Jacques!
Re: The Woodcock Jacques (WARNING: adult language & themes)
Date: 2016-08-25 12:59 pm (UTC)Very cheekily done, madam - that's brilliant ^_^
Re: The Woodcock Jacques (WARNING: adult language & themes)
Date: 2016-08-25 03:54 pm (UTC)