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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.
Indian Summer
by Dorothy Parker
My grateful thanks to Rachel for her excellent choice of poem. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the Fib. (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 A Scandal in Bohemia 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
My grateful thanks to Rachel for her excellent choice of poem. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the Fib. (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 A Scandal in Bohemia in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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Limerick
Date: 2016-10-09 07:42 am (UTC)For her photo, Holmes hires half the town.
Smoke exposes the site
But she flees in the night –
And to Norton (neé Adler), the crown.
A Fib
Date: 2016-10-09 10:28 am (UTC)You
see
but do
not observe.
A mere woman’s wit
is a match for yours, Mr. Holmes.
RE: A Fib
Date: 2016-10-09 10:41 am (UTC)RE: Limerick
Date: 2016-10-09 10:43 am (UTC)Not a fib because I can't read instructions properly
Date: 2016-10-09 10:47 am (UTC)Woman
takes the cake,
wedding, leaves behind
a parting gift, shot, photograph
for the puzzled pup, hesitant hound, stumped sleuth, Esquire.
A Fib
Date: 2016-10-09 12:05 pm (UTC)She
Was
Always
The Woman
When Holmes spoke of her;
A match for his own cleverness.
Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-10-09 12:06 pm (UTC)Re: A Fib
Date: 2016-10-09 12:07 pm (UTC)Re: Not a fib because I can't read instructions properly
Date: 2016-10-09 12:08 pm (UTC)And is a lovely description of the result of Irene's actions.
RE: Re: Not a fib because I can't read instructions properly
Date: 2016-10-09 12:51 pm (UTC)A proto fib--or a white lie--ho, ho, ho, I slay me! :)
RE: A Fib
Date: 2016-10-09 12:52 pm (UTC)Re: A Fib
Date: 2016-10-09 01:03 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-10-09 02:44 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-10-09 02:47 pm (UTC)Re: A Fib
Date: 2016-10-09 02:49 pm (UTC)Fib (in more ways than one)
Date: 2016-10-09 02:56 pm (UTC)True.
Seven!
Wedded life
May have pampered me
But I know my own weight, old man.
Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-10-09 04:40 pm (UTC)Re: Fib (in more ways than one)
Date: 2016-10-09 04:42 pm (UTC)Re: Fib (in more ways than one)
Date: 2016-10-09 05:13 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-10-09 07:59 pm (UTC)Re 'half the town' - I have wondered in the past if Holmes hired an entire theatre company.
Re: A Fib
Date: 2016-10-09 08:00 pm (UTC)Re: A Fib
Date: 2016-10-09 08:07 pm (UTC)Re: A Fib
Date: 2016-10-09 08:21 pm (UTC)Re: Not a fib because I can't read instructions properly
Date: 2016-10-09 08:26 pm (UTC)I especially like those last two lines - the way 'parting' goes on to qualify all the following three nouns, and the way the descriptions of Holmes build up until the punchy round-off of 'Esquire' ^_^
Re: A Fib
Date: 2016-10-09 08:34 pm (UTC)