Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Final Problem

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Welcome once again to my poetry page!

I hope each week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative (though ‘delightful’ is perhaps not the right word 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, 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.



After great pain, a formal feeling comes

by Emily Dickinson



Thank you so much to Rachel. A difficult time but we shall all carry on together.


Here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the renga. (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 Final Problem in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


And please do join me next week for my Problem Page and Poetry Corner. All forms of poetry will still be welcome but I will also be answering comments regarding any personal problems. Love, work, household hints—believe me, I have seen and done it all (and if I haven’t, Mrs. Turner definitely has) and I am ready and willing to offer my advice. So feel free to discuss any problem you care to, from Christmas Day onwards!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

Comments

Renga

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Mr Holmes you cause
Me too much aggravation
To be allowed to remain

I shall stop your evil plans
And ensure you are captured

But you fool yourself
I will not let you escape
You cannot flee far from me

I shall leave for foreign parts
And you will not follow me

We meet once again
You will pay for your actions
Here at the Reichenbach Falls

I will gladly give my life
If I take your life with mine

Re: Renga

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Very nice duet. I can imagine them singing it operatic style.

Re: Renga

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Maybe Frankles could incorporate it into The Pirates of Penzance.

Re: Renga

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Frankles will not be incorporating it into The Pirates of Penzance.

But very neatly done ^__^

RE: Re: Renga

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Aw, shame.

And thank you.

Re: Renga

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

That's exactly how it reads - an operatic confrontation.

Re: Renga

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Sung by tenor and bass, I think.

RE: Renga

[debriswoman]

Progresses very neatly and logically:-)

Re: Renga

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much.