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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.
"If I should learn, in some quite casual way"
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Note from Rachel: To me, the most haunting element of this adventure is the way that one brother learns terrible news from a paper headline on the street, and then must struggle to appear normal while his heart breaks in despair. This poem captures that horrible rictus of a person struck unexpectedly with grief yet unable to show it in a public place.
Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the villanelle. (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, musette, 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 Stock-broker’s Clerk 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 Edna St. Vincent Millay
Note from Rachel: To me, the most haunting element of this adventure is the way that one brother learns terrible news from a paper headline on the street, and then must struggle to appear normal while his heart breaks in despair. This poem captures that horrible rictus of a person struck unexpectedly with grief yet unable to show it in a public place.
Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the villanelle. (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, musette, 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 Stock-broker’s Clerk in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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Clerihew
Date: 2016-10-02 07:37 am (UTC)Not nearly as smart as Holmes’ brother
A boiler-room office, suspicious high pay
Should have warned the young Cockney to keep far away
RE: Clerihew
Date: 2016-10-02 08:47 am (UTC)RE: Clerihew
Date: 2016-10-02 10:02 am (UTC)Not a Villanelle
Date: 2016-10-02 11:11 am (UTC)My first reaction was what the ***
Of all the different forms of verse
I really can’t think of one much worse
A story which starts with a deduced chill
A wife who bears Holmes no ill-will
A step which has been more deeply worn
Three travellers to Birmingham borne
A promise of a job in France
A man’s selection, but not by chance
It’s quite the tale I have to tell
But certainly not by villanelle
Re: Clerihew
Date: 2016-10-02 11:12 am (UTC)RE: Not a Villanelle
Date: 2016-10-02 11:27 am (UTC)A villanelle
Date: 2016-10-02 11:34 am (UTC)How curious is the sibling bond
Two fates forever entwined.
One might be a villain but the heart is still fond.
A need for help and one must respond.
The call comes and cannot be declined.
How curious is the sibling bond.
Pinner would have followed to the great beyond
A murderer of the most brutal kind.
He might be a villain but the heart is still fond.
Mrs. Barrymore would have helped Selden abscond,
A dangerous man of unsound mind.
How curious is the sibling bond.
His foster-sister stole and conned
But young Holder was to prison resigned.
She might be a villain but the heart is still fond.
All these examples correspond.
All the evidence is aligned.
How curious is the sibling bond
They might be villains but the heart is still fond.
Re: Not a Villanelle
Date: 2016-10-02 12:03 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2016-10-02 12:05 pm (UTC)Re: Not a Villanelle
Date: 2016-10-02 12:11 pm (UTC)Nice to see the suggestion spurred on the creative process even in an indirect way :P
Re: A villanelle
Date: 2016-10-02 12:50 pm (UTC)Rachel's poem
Date: 2016-10-02 01:26 pm (UTC)Re: Not a Villanelle
Date: 2016-10-02 04:22 pm (UTC)Re: Not a Villanelle
Date: 2016-10-02 04:24 pm (UTC)Re: Not a Villanelle
Date: 2016-10-02 04:25 pm (UTC)Re: A villanelle
Date: 2016-10-02 04:27 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2016-10-02 04:51 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2016-10-02 04:52 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2016-10-02 05:02 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2016-10-02 05:17 pm (UTC)RE: Not a Villanelle
Date: 2016-10-02 05:46 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2016-10-02 05:46 pm (UTC)RE: A villanelle
Date: 2016-10-02 05:46 pm (UTC)RE: Rachel's poem
Date: 2016-10-02 05:47 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2016-10-02 05:59 pm (UTC)Re: A villanelle
Date: 2016-10-02 06:01 pm (UTC)Re: A villanelle
Date: 2016-10-02 06:26 pm (UTC)*blushes*
*slips over backwards*
Re: A villanelle
Date: 2016-10-02 06:30 pm (UTC)Re: A villanelle
Date: 2016-10-02 06:30 pm (UTC)Re: A villanelle
Date: 2016-10-02 06:30 pm (UTC)Re: Not a Villanelle
Date: 2016-10-02 08:37 pm (UTC)villanelle (late)
Date: 2016-10-04 12:52 am (UTC)New slippers by the fire tell the tale
New slippers by the fire in so wet a June
New slippers by the fire whilst the summer swallows croon
New slippers for the less-than-hearty, hale
New slippers by the fire on a sunny afternoon
New slippers by the fire though summer crocuses festoon
New slippers scorched whilst cough, ague assail
New slippers by the fire in so wet a June
New slippers by the fire peek from winter’s wool cocoon
New slippers worn, yet bear their proof of sale
New slippers by the fire on a sunny afternoon
New slippers by the fire, nearby toddy, tea, and spoon
New slippers for the shivering and pale
New slippers by the fire in so wet a June
Though now you whistle an easy tune
your feet sing of yesterday’s travail
New slippers by the fire on a sunny afternoon
New slippers by the fire in so wet a June
Re: villanelle (late)
Date: 2016-10-04 11:06 pm (UTC)I really like your choice of rhymes. Especially 'festoon' and 'cocoon', and 'assail' and 'travail'. And Though now you whistle an easy tune/ your feet sing of yesterday’s travail made me smile so much. That latter line is so sweet - it's such a splendid way of expressing the idea ^^
Re: villanelle (late)
Date: 2016-10-04 11:35 pm (UTC)RE: villanelle (late)
Date: 2016-10-10 07:35 pm (UTC)Re: villanelle (late)
Date: 2016-10-10 08:19 pm (UTC)