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sherlock60Welcome once again to my poetry page!
I hope each week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative (though not quite so delightful this week) 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, are this week’s suggested poems to read—suggestions inspired by the themes and subjects in this week's story. Hopefully you will enjoy the poems, and perhaps they 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.
An Ancient Gesture
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Note from Rachel: This poem expresses, for me, some of Mrs. Hudson’s experience (and by extension, Dr. Watson’s), in learning that the hero’s suffering was feigned while their own was all too real.
A Fixed Idea
by Amy Lowell
Note from Rachel: Mr. Holmes seems determined to catch his villains at any cost, and almost eager to cut the tie of friendship that holds him back from total immersion into combat with these devils. Of late he has been melancholy, too -- missing the days when he shared these rooms with the good doctor, I do believe. His friend's brief visits and occasional shared cases only make the solitude worse to return to once they are over. He speaks more and more of a name, one particular enemy; he calls him the Napoleon of Crime. Mrs. Hudson and I worry for him, terribly. One cannot help but wonder what strange thoughts are in his heart.
Thank you so much to Rachel. (Yes, these are anxious times at Baker Street...) And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the epulaeryu. (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 The Dying Detective 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 (though not quite so delightful this week) 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, are this week’s suggested poems to read—suggestions inspired by the themes and subjects in this week's story. Hopefully you will enjoy the poems, and perhaps they 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.
An Ancient Gesture
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Note from Rachel: This poem expresses, for me, some of Mrs. Hudson’s experience (and by extension, Dr. Watson’s), in learning that the hero’s suffering was feigned while their own was all too real.
A Fixed Idea
by Amy Lowell
Note from Rachel: Mr. Holmes seems determined to catch his villains at any cost, and almost eager to cut the tie of friendship that holds him back from total immersion into combat with these devils. Of late he has been melancholy, too -- missing the days when he shared these rooms with the good doctor, I do believe. His friend's brief visits and occasional shared cases only make the solitude worse to return to once they are over. He speaks more and more of a name, one particular enemy; he calls him the Napoleon of Crime. Mrs. Hudson and I worry for him, terribly. One cannot help but wonder what strange thoughts are in his heart.
Thank you so much to Rachel. (Yes, these are anxious times at Baker Street...) And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the epulaeryu. (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 The Dying Detective in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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Clerihew
Date: 2016-12-11 08:26 am (UTC)His nephew murdered forthwith
That meddler Holmes got too close. Set a trap
With a toxic surprise. But on HIM it went snap!
Re: Clerihew
Date: 2016-12-11 12:32 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2016-12-11 06:07 pm (UTC)"He starts monologuing."
"He starts monologuing!"
Re: Clerihew
Date: 2016-12-11 01:11 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2016-12-11 06:13 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2016-12-11 02:25 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2016-12-11 06:16 pm (UTC)RE: Clerihew
Date: 2016-12-11 02:37 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2016-12-11 06:17 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Clerihew
Date: 2016-12-11 11:39 pm (UTC)epulaeryu (POV bacteria [probably Burkholderia pseudomallei])
Date: 2016-12-11 12:33 pm (UTC)invisible pest
helps itself until it pops
divides and conquers
host, meal are no more,
sinister
guest!
Re: epulaeryu (POV bacteria [probably Burkholderia pseudomallei])
Date: 2016-12-11 01:12 pm (UTC)RE: Re: epulaeryu (POV bacteria [probably Burkholderia pseudomallei])
Date: 2016-12-11 02:41 pm (UTC)Re: epulaeryu (POV bacteria [probably Burkholderia pseudomallei])
Date: 2016-12-11 02:36 pm (UTC)I especially like that play on Victor Savage's name. And the play on 'host'. That idea makes me shiver - that poor Savage was both host to the feast and the meal itself for the 'sinister guest'.
RE: Re: epulaeryu (POV bacteria [probably Burkholderia pseudomallei])
Date: 2016-12-11 02:44 pm (UTC)RE: epulaeryu (POV bacteria [probably Burkholderia pseudomallei])
Date: 2016-12-11 02:38 pm (UTC)RE: epulaeryu (POV bacteria [probably Burkholderia pseudomallei])
Date: 2016-12-11 02:45 pm (UTC)Re: epulaeryu (POV bacteria [probably Burkholderia pseudomallei])
Date: 2016-12-11 06:21 pm (UTC)RE: Re: epulaeryu (POV bacteria [probably Burkholderia pseudomallei])
Date: 2016-12-11 06:30 pm (UTC)epulaeryu
Date: 2016-12-11 01:13 pm (UTC)A glass of claret
Sufficient for sustenance
Energy giving
Until a foray
To Simpson’s
Yay!
RE: epulaeryu
Date: 2016-12-11 01:35 pm (UTC)Re: epulaeryu
Date: 2016-12-11 01:51 pm (UTC)In the case of the Brownies, more this:
Chocolate ice cream sundae
Ice cream candy shop
Vanilla ice cream sundae
Or brownie sundae
Frankie and Benny's
Delicious
Sweets
RE: Re: epulaeryu
Date: 2016-12-11 02:40 pm (UTC)Re: epulaeryu
Date: 2016-12-11 03:24 pm (UTC)RE: epulaeryu
Date: 2016-12-11 02:38 pm (UTC)Re: epulaeryu
Date: 2016-12-11 03:25 pm (UTC)Re: epulaeryu
Date: 2016-12-11 02:39 pm (UTC)Re: epulaeryu
Date: 2016-12-11 03:25 pm (UTC)Re: epulaeryu
Date: 2016-12-11 06:25 pm (UTC)Re: epulaeryu
Date: 2016-12-11 07:03 pm (UTC)A sort of epulaeryu...
Date: 2016-12-11 01:45 pm (UTC)and then to Simpson’s.
I think it might be better
to dine here at home
and break your fast with
humble pie,
eh?
Re: A sort of epulaeryu...
Date: 2016-12-11 01:52 pm (UTC)Re: A sort of epulaeryu...
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Date: 2016-12-11 03:27 pm (UTC)RE: A sort of epulaeryu...
Date: 2016-12-11 02:40 pm (UTC)Holmes needs to think about what he has done:-p
While the rest of the household are dining out
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Date: 2016-12-11 06:35 pm (UTC)