Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Empty House
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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, 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.
My Mother Would Be a Falconress
by Robert Duncan
Note from Rachel: We know now that Professor Moriarty did not go to his last battle alone. He brought his second-in-command, the man he had trained to carry out his evil will and to dirty his hands with hunting and killing all over the wide world. But Colonel Moran, it seems, tired of being forever subordinate to his master's wishes. After all, he watched that last fight at the waterfall, gun in hand, but let Mr. Holmes do away with the Professor before he ever fired a shot. Be he falcon or tiger, he was never truly tamed.
If I Was Dead
by Carol Ann Duffy
Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the Etheree. (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 Empty House 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, 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.
My Mother Would Be a Falconress
by Robert Duncan
Note from Rachel: We know now that Professor Moriarty did not go to his last battle alone. He brought his second-in-command, the man he had trained to carry out his evil will and to dirty his hands with hunting and killing all over the wide world. But Colonel Moran, it seems, tired of being forever subordinate to his master's wishes. After all, he watched that last fight at the waterfall, gun in hand, but let Mr. Holmes do away with the Professor before he ever fired a shot. Be he falcon or tiger, he was never truly tamed.
If I Was Dead
by Carol Ann Duffy
Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the Etheree. (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 Empty House in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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Limerick
Date: 2017-01-01 08:53 am (UTC)All went grey, and my head hit the wood.
He I lost at the Fall
Never fell after all.
...My dear? This. Had. Better. Be. Good.
***
...And with this, I have now completed a limerick for each of the 60 Canon tales (at least one each, more for the novels).
Re: Limerick
Date: 2017-01-01 01:25 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2017-01-01 05:18 pm (UTC)RE: Limerick
Date: 2017-01-01 01:42 pm (UTC)An excellent number 60:-)
Re: Limerick
Date: 2017-01-01 05:20 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2017-01-01 04:56 pm (UTC)Many congratulations on completing the set! ^_^
Re: Limerick
Date: 2017-01-01 05:22 pm (UTC)Once I alphabetize the limericks I'll post them on AO3.
Re: Limerick
Date: 2017-01-02 02:04 am (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2017-01-02 04:30 am (UTC)Re: Out of tune
Date: 2017-01-01 01:27 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Out of tune
Date: 2017-01-01 01:43 pm (UTC)Re: Out of tune
Date: 2017-01-01 05:31 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Out of tune
Date: 2017-01-01 05:39 pm (UTC)Thank you.
Re: Out of tune
Date: 2017-01-01 05:39 pm (UTC)They would have to slowly rebuild their friendship I imagine - it would be impossible to immediately go back to how things were before.
RE: Re: Out of tune
Date: 2017-01-01 05:42 pm (UTC)Re: Out of tune
Date: 2017-01-02 02:05 am (UTC)RE: Re: Out of tune
Date: 2017-01-02 12:12 pm (UTC)Etheree - Conclusion
Date: 2017-01-01 01:28 pm (UTC)Back to
Baker Street.
All is over.
Lestrade has captured
Sebastian Moran,
Once renowned tiger hunter.
And whose most favourite weapon,
The famous air-gun of von Herder,
Will embellish Scotland Yardâs Museum.
RE: Etheree - Conclusion
Date: 2017-01-01 01:44 pm (UTC)Re: Etheree - Conclusion
Date: 2017-01-01 01:55 pm (UTC)Re: Etheree - Conclusion
Date: 2017-01-01 05:57 pm (UTC)Re: Etheree - Conclusion
Date: 2017-01-01 10:11 pm (UTC)Re: Etheree - Conclusion
Date: 2017-01-02 02:06 am (UTC)Re: Etheree - Conclusion
Date: 2017-01-02 12:49 pm (UTC)Re: A reminder of who didn't return. Written earlier.
Date: 2017-01-01 05:24 pm (UTC)RE: Re: A reminder of who didn't return. Written earlier.
Date: 2017-01-01 05:40 pm (UTC)Re: A reminder of who didn't return. Written earlier.
Date: 2017-01-01 05:34 pm (UTC)RE: Re: A reminder of who didn't return. Written earlier.
Date: 2017-01-01 05:41 pm (UTC)I will go look...
Re: A reminder of who didn't return. Written earlier.
Date: 2017-01-01 06:05 pm (UTC)On the technical side, I really liked the way you used numbers: A bed, and four walls, and it's three in the morning;, It's five o'clock, now, and a new day is dawning;/ At six, though bone-weary, you get out of bed.
RE: Re: A reminder of who didn't return. Written earlier.
Date: 2017-01-01 06:33 pm (UTC)Re: A reminder of who didn't return. Written earlier.
Date: 2017-01-02 02:10 am (UTC)RE: Re: A reminder of who didn't return. Written earlier.
Date: 2017-01-02 12:13 pm (UTC)Rachel's poems
Date: 2017-01-02 02:14 am (UTC)And of course the second one is perfect for the shippers amongst us.
Re: Rachel's poems
Date: 2017-01-02 11:56 pm (UTC)Re: Rachel's poems
Date: 2017-01-03 02:14 am (UTC)Re: Rachel's poems
Date: 2017-01-03 05:36 pm (UTC)BTW I am still thinking of your wingfic. I may try my hand at canon wingfic one day. I had never even considered the possibility until reading yours. And I like falcons and hawks very much.
Re: Rachel's poems
Date: 2017-01-03 11:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-03 12:32 am (UTC)(And doesn't account for significant elements of the canon)
Yet again I'm left wondering why this fandom hates the idea of them being close and genuinely caring for each other.
no subject
Date: 2017-01-03 02:23 am (UTC)When I came across this poem I thought it offered an interesting and darker alternate take on what their relationship and its ending might have been like. It's certainly not meant to cancel out other imaginings, just to offer one more possibility to consider. Sorry if it got you down! If you prefer, you could adopt the second poem for them instead :)
no subject
Date: 2017-01-03 10:33 pm (UTC)The thing is... I haven't really seen this much. It's been the very rare exception when it happens. Whether intentionally or subconsciously I think Doyle did sow the seeds of that idea but so few people have done anything with its potential. When it comes to anything that isn't BBC Sherlock (which I don't like/see as being connected to the characters/pairing I love) I've seen them used as 'props' whose sole purpose is essentially to cause Holmes and Watson trauma which they (Holmes/Watson) have to overcome to end up together and where the 'happy ending' involves Moriarty and Moran being dead. I've seen it claimed Moriarty was just made up by Holmes to lure Watson away from Mary. I've seen fic not just online but including by published authors in most of the best known published books featuring them, or screen adaptations too make it plain that Moriarty and Moran don't like each other or that they were "never friends" (Anthony Horowitz's words if I recall correctly). Or they portray Moran as incompetent and a traitor to Moriarty or they ignore his existence entirely (or largely ignore Moriarty on the rarer occasion when Moran gets his own story) or they replace Moran with some boring other character or have them about to murder or actually murdering the other. Also because of ideas bleeding over from the BBC Sherlock part of the fandom I've seen repeated assertions that Moriarty/Moran is an abusive relationship, as if that's canonical fact when it just isn't.
But I've seen so few positive portrayals of their relationship. A Game of Shadows was such a rare exception in showing them as close but it sadly changed nothing in the overall fandom in regards to them. Other stories published since then have largely treated them poorly and there were a handful of people creating more positive Victorian Moriarty/Moran content for a few months after AGoS came out, certainly, but the others all lost interest. I'm basically the only one left writing about any Victorian version of Moriarty/Moran and have been for a long time now and I find it so depressing not just that there is nobody else and that this is a pairing that's almost entirely ignored by the Sherlock Holmes fandom but also that on the rare occasions where someone else does use the characters, the majority of the time it's in a negative way, either as minor characters there just to prop up Holmes/Watson and then die or even where there is a focus on them, the idea of them as close is still almost always ignored or explicitly dismissed.
(Sorry, this wasn't meant to be some kind of essay, and it's certainly not intended as some kind of attack on you, it is a fandom-wide issue. I'm just really tired of and also saddened by seeing so much negativity throughout the fandom towards a pairing that means so much to me)
no subject
Date: 2017-01-03 11:29 pm (UTC)I don't know if you've participated before, but I wonder if you might enjoy participating in the Holmestice gift exchange sometime? It's a haven for rare pairings and you can explain what you like (and don't like) in your gift request. They just finished the latest round but it happens twice a year in summer and winter. Maybe that might give you a chance to write and receive stories along the lines you prefer. Anyhow, I just thought I'd put that on your radar in case it sounded fun. I think the next round of sign-ups will be around late May or early June. In any case, best wishes for a happy new year!
double ethree inspired by the title of the book that Holmes dropped
Date: 2017-01-05 04:36 pm (UTC)urge to
climb the spire
stately, handsome,
that reaches for and
approaches heavenâs gates,
that bears fruit and bestows shade,
that affords unparalleled views
of the world as well as himself, is
in fact, the origins of tree worship.
The origins of tree worship have roots
in the deep, formidable reverence
of the stoic for the restless
unremitting adorer
whose veneration ends
cradled in his boughs
at rest, at peace
in arbor,
tree and
man.
Re: double ethree inspired by the title of the book that Holmes dropped
Date: 2017-01-05 06:34 pm (UTC)Re: double ethree inspired by the title of the book that Holmes dropped
Date: 2017-01-05 08:05 pm (UTC)Re: double ethree inspired by the title of the book that Holmes dropped
Date: 2017-01-06 12:20 am (UTC)