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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.
The Sadness of Clothes
by Emily Fragos
Note from Rachel: Mrs. Cubitt outlived her initial despair and spent many years in the house she had shared with her husband, surrounded by memories. This poem seemed true to her grief, courage, and loss. (After all, our good Queen Victoria has had her husband's clothes laid out for him every morning, though he's been dead for years. She chooses to act as though he might one day walk back through the door and put them on again.)
Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the circular poem. (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, line messaging, 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 Dancing Men 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 Emily Fragos
Note from Rachel: Mrs. Cubitt outlived her initial despair and spent many years in the house she had shared with her husband, surrounded by memories. This poem seemed true to her grief, courage, and loss. (After all, our good Queen Victoria has had her husband's clothes laid out for him every morning, though he's been dead for years. She chooses to act as though he might one day walk back through the door and put them on again.)
Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the circular poem. (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, line messaging, 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 Dancing Men in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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Clerihew
Date: 2017-01-15 09:02 am (UTC)Had peace, a home, a hub. It
Didnât last, she lost them all
When men came dancing back to call
Circular poem
Date: 2017-01-15 12:32 pm (UTC)He resembles a strange bird: grey plumage and black crest
Then comes a client to distract him from every malodour
With tales of strange drawings which are starting to occur
This is no childish act, but a message left in code
And what they say is vital, though by means of a strange mode
We shall go tomorrow, for weâve missed the final train
Weâll meet with Hilton Cubitt and I shall then explain
But no, âI should have acted soonerâ he solemnly confessed
And now his bird-like head once more is sunk upon his breast
Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-01-15 12:33 pm (UTC)Re: A plea to Holmes
Date: 2017-01-15 12:33 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-01-15 01:45 pm (UTC)Re: Circular poem
Date: 2017-01-15 01:47 pm (UTC)Re: A plea to Holmes
Date: 2017-01-15 01:48 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-01-15 01:49 pm (UTC)Re: Circular poem
Date: 2017-01-15 01:50 pm (UTC)RE: Clerihew
Date: 2017-01-15 02:14 pm (UTC)RE: Re: A plea to Holmes
Date: 2017-01-15 02:15 pm (UTC)RE: Re: A plea to Holmes
Date: 2017-01-15 02:15 pm (UTC)RE: Circular poem
Date: 2017-01-15 02:16 pm (UTC)Regarding Rachel's poem
Date: 2017-01-15 02:24 pm (UTC)Re: Circular poem
Date: 2017-01-15 03:04 pm (UTC)Re: Regarding Rachel's poem
Date: 2017-01-15 03:07 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-01-15 04:08 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-01-15 04:10 pm (UTC)Re: Regarding Rachel's poem
Date: 2017-01-15 04:16 pm (UTC)Re: Circular poem
Date: 2017-01-15 04:20 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-01-15 04:22 pm (UTC)attempt circular
Date: 2017-01-15 04:44 pm (UTC)was dispersed by whiff of strong, fresh, east-coast air
which, carrying fumes of gunâs foul powder, blew
throughout the manor-hall. Tickled, nostrils flared.
Smoke thinned. East Angliaâs bouquet, soured by rue,
faded as the three-forty chugged towards smell, laid bare,
of fine fowl, home-coming, on dinner plates, two.
Re: A plea to Holmes
Date: 2017-01-15 04:56 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-01-15 05:21 pm (UTC)Re: attempt circular
Date: 2017-01-15 05:24 pm (UTC)I particularly like Malodorous scent of chimerical brew and East Angliaâs bouquet.
Re: attempt circular
Date: 2017-01-15 05:30 pm (UTC)Re: Circular poem
Date: 2017-01-15 05:42 pm (UTC)Re: attempt circular
Date: 2017-01-15 05:44 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-01-15 06:26 pm (UTC)RE: Re: A plea to Holmes
Date: 2017-01-15 06:29 pm (UTC)Re: attempt circular
Date: 2017-01-15 06:29 pm (UTC)RE: attempt circular
Date: 2017-01-15 06:30 pm (UTC)Re: attempt circular
Date: 2017-01-15 06:37 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-01-15 06:53 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-01-15 06:54 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-01-15 06:55 pm (UTC)Re: A plea to Holmes
Date: 2017-01-15 07:07 pm (UTC)RE: Re: A plea to Holmes
Date: 2017-01-15 07:13 pm (UTC)