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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.
I Dug, Beneath the Cypress Shade
by Thomas Love Peacock
Note from Rachel: I fear that Miss Sutherland's wronged heart will take time to recover from its wounds, even though her vile, false suitor is not worth a moment's regret.
Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the fable. (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, 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 A Case of Identity 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 Thomas Love Peacock
Note from Rachel: I fear that Miss Sutherland's wronged heart will take time to recover from its wounds, even though her vile, false suitor is not worth a moment's regret.
Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the fable. (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, 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 A Case of Identity in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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Limerick
Date: 2016-11-20 10:20 am (UTC)A chat or two turned to romance.
…’Twas stepdad in disguise
Hanging on to his prize.
Holmes would flog the cad, given a chance.
RE: Limerick
Date: 2016-11-20 12:44 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-11-20 04:15 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-11-20 04:38 pm (UTC)Sweet girl - she really didn't deserve those parents.
Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-11-20 07:08 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-11-20 05:49 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-11-20 07:20 pm (UTC)Guess we'll just have to settle for him taking a sea voyahge...
RE: Limerick
Date: 2016-11-20 10:47 pm (UTC)Nicely done:-)
Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-11-21 01:10 am (UTC)RE: Later...
Date: 2016-11-20 12:30 pm (UTC)RE: Later...
Date: 2016-11-20 10:48 pm (UTC)Re: Later...
Date: 2016-11-20 04:17 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Later...
Date: 2016-11-20 10:49 pm (UTC)Re: Later...
Date: 2016-11-20 04:44 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Later...
Date: 2016-11-20 10:49 pm (UTC)Re: Later...
Date: 2016-11-20 05:51 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Later...
Date: 2016-11-20 10:50 pm (UTC)Rachel's poem
Date: 2016-11-20 01:48 pm (UTC)Re: Rachel's poem
Date: 2016-11-20 04:55 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Rachel's poem
Date: 2016-11-20 10:50 pm (UTC)A poem with a moral
Date: 2016-11-20 05:52 pm (UTC)And wished her husband to go
There were some problems in the case
Which Holmes was able to show
All was happy within the household
Until the couple sat down to eat
But what followed was most upsetting
When Dundas had finished his meat
He removed his false teeth and taking aim
Threw them at his wife
She accused her husband of cruelty
And demanded he leave her life
The moral of this story
Is very quickly said
All false teeth should indeed
Remain inside one’s head
RE: A poem with a moral
Date: 2016-11-20 06:21 pm (UTC)Other people's false teeth are a bit ugh.
Re: A poem with a moral
Date: 2016-11-20 06:56 pm (UTC)Re: A poem with a moral
Date: 2016-11-20 07:26 pm (UTC)An excellent moral, madam. And of course, false teeth should remain inside the head so the moral can be quickly said :P
Re: A poem with a moral
Date: 2016-11-20 09:33 pm (UTC)RE: A poem with a moral
Date: 2016-11-20 10:51 pm (UTC)I did start something off with mouselet, but got stuck:-p
RE: A poem with a moral
Date: 2016-11-20 11:33 pm (UTC)fable (sonnet-ish, fable-ish, deserves a *you tried* sticker)
Date: 2016-11-22 03:36 am (UTC)A shipwrecked monkey clad in sailor’s garb
did fool the gentle eye of sailor’s friend.
Just so an ape used Angel’s guise as barb
to hook a dolphin-daughter mild, to bend
her will and fix her purse to his and him.
The rescued monkey’s clever plan was foiled
when false reply exposed a trickster dim.
The typist woke to wedding day despoiled,
bright-eyed, about her littered fallen scales.
“Be gone, my Angel false, you shan’t be missed.
your scoundrel’s fog has lifted, truth prevails
[thanks] to doctors, Watson and my oculist!”
And so beware all primates foul, your ploys may come to naught,
one word misspoke, one pince-nez new, your lies will have you caught!
Re: fable (sonnet-ish, fable-ish, deserves a *you tried* sticker)
Date: 2016-11-22 02:26 pm (UTC)Re: fable (sonnet-ish, fable-ish, deserves a *you tried* sticker)
Date: 2016-11-22 02:39 pm (UTC)Re: fable (sonnet-ish, fable-ish, deserves a *you tried* sticker)
Date: 2016-11-22 04:22 pm (UTC)I particularly liked: “Be gone, my Angel false, you shan’t be missed./ your scoundrel’s fog has lifted, truth prevails/ [thanks] to doctors, Watson and my oculist!” And of course the final couplet ^_^
Re: fable (sonnet-ish, fable-ish, deserves a *you tried* sticker)
Date: 2016-11-22 04:43 pm (UTC)My new idea is that Mary Sutherland's poor vision played a role in her not recognizing her step-father. And more words rhyme with oculist than you would think :)