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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.
Unfortunately there is no contribution from my housemaid Rachel this week. She has been very busy lately with her Women In Service Poetry Group, and I believe today she is holding a meeting titled ‘Brainstorming Your Ballad’. I am sure you will join me in wishing her well with that, and we will hopefully see her next time.
Instead, here is a new poetry form to try. I understand some distress was caused by my most recent choices of form and so this time I thought we should attempt something a little more flexible: free verse.
Shadow Poetry gives this definition:
Free Verse is an irregular form of poetry in which the content is free of traditional rules of versification, (freedom from fixed meter or rhyme).
In moving from line to line, the poet's main consideration is where to insert line breaks. Some ways of doing this include breaking the line where there is a natural pause, or at a point of suspense for the reader.
Here is my example poem:
Run free, little verse
Through 221B!
Over chemicals, a violin, a consulting detective…
Over moustachioed doctor, medical supplies (a bottle of brandy)...
Over curtains, over mantel, over…
(Great heavens)
An enormous pile of papers left in the middle of the floor.
You jump!
And trip!
And fall.
Yes, sadly, little verse—this is where the line
Breaks.
But you do not have to use this form, if you do not wish to. 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, free verse, 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 Boscombe Valley Mystery 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.
Unfortunately there is no contribution from my housemaid Rachel this week. She has been very busy lately with her Women In Service Poetry Group, and I believe today she is holding a meeting titled ‘Brainstorming Your Ballad’. I am sure you will join me in wishing her well with that, and we will hopefully see her next time.
Instead, here is a new poetry form to try. I understand some distress was caused by my most recent choices of form and so this time I thought we should attempt something a little more flexible: free verse.
Shadow Poetry gives this definition:
Free Verse is an irregular form of poetry in which the content is free of traditional rules of versification, (freedom from fixed meter or rhyme).
In moving from line to line, the poet's main consideration is where to insert line breaks. Some ways of doing this include breaking the line where there is a natural pause, or at a point of suspense for the reader.
Here is my example poem:
Through 221B!
Over chemicals, a violin, a consulting detective…
Over moustachioed doctor, medical supplies (a bottle of brandy)...
Over curtains, over mantel, over…
(Great heavens)
An enormous pile of papers left in the middle of the floor.
You jump!
And trip!
And fall.
Yes, sadly, little verse—this is where the line
Breaks.
But you do not have to use this form, if you do not wish to. 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, free verse, 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 Boscombe Valley Mystery in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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Limerick
Date: 2016-10-30 07:14 am (UTC)Find the rich man and tell him your name –
And his background of crime
That brought wealth, means a time
You can profit – or die – from his blame.
RE: Limerick
Date: 2016-10-30 10:33 am (UTC)Poem by Mrs. Small-Hobbit, c/o Mrs. Hudson.
Date: 2016-10-30 11:59 am (UTC)You shave
By the sunlight
And yet
I can see
You do not
Shave equally
And I know
Your standards
Are high
So I deduce
Your window
Is on the right
A Free Verse Poem
Date: 2016-10-30 12:03 pm (UTC)Two tickets to buy
Two corner seats to save
But Holmes waits
Until Watson arrives.
Even now
He doesn’t know.
Convenient or inconvenient
Watson will
Always
Come.
RE: Not sure if this counts as free verse...
Date: 2016-10-30 12:52 pm (UTC)RE: Poem by Mrs. Small-Hobbit, c/o Mrs. Hudson.
Date: 2016-10-30 12:52 pm (UTC)RE: A Free Verse Poem
Date: 2016-10-30 12:55 pm (UTC)Mrs. Hudson's poem
Date: 2016-10-30 01:03 pm (UTC)RE: Written earlier...Secrets
Date: 2016-10-30 01:04 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-10-30 01:05 pm (UTC)Re: Not sure if this counts as free verse...
Date: 2016-10-30 01:20 pm (UTC)I always like to think that Holmes and Miss Hunter continued their friendship, and this is such a clever way of renewing their acquaintance ^^
Re: Poem by Mrs. Small-Hobbit, c/o Mrs. Hudson.
Date: 2016-10-30 01:24 pm (UTC)Re: A Free Verse Poem
Date: 2016-10-30 01:26 pm (UTC)Re: Mrs. Hudson's poem
Date: 2016-10-30 01:29 pm (UTC)Re: Written earlier...Secrets
Date: 2016-10-30 01:37 pm (UTC)RE: Mrs. Hudson's poem
Date: 2016-10-30 03:10 pm (UTC)Excellent work, Mrs H:-)
RE: Written earlier...Secrets
Date: 2016-10-30 03:11 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Written earlier...Secrets
Date: 2016-10-30 03:11 pm (UTC)And yes...limits not tested...
RE: A Free Verse Poem
Date: 2016-10-30 03:18 pm (UTC)RE: Poem by Mrs. Small-Hobbit, c/o Mrs. Hudson.
Date: 2016-10-30 03:18 pm (UTC)RE: Not sure if this counts as free verse...
Date: 2016-10-30 03:19 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Not sure if this counts as free verse...
Date: 2016-10-30 03:20 pm (UTC)It would be lovely if they kept in touch:-)
RE: Limerick
Date: 2016-10-30 03:24 pm (UTC)Nicely put.
Re: A Free Verse Poem
Date: 2016-10-30 03:35 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-10-30 04:13 pm (UTC)