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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.
Scaffolding
By Seamus Heaney
Note from Rachel: It is hard to tell the strength or weakness of a marriage from the outside. But even if we are anxious to seem perfect and beyond reproach in the bloom of early love, in time we learn to trust one another with our weaknesses and flaws as well. I like to imagine that, had Lady Hilda found the courage to take her husband into her confidence rather than acceding to blackmail, she might have discovered that their relationship was strong enough to survive. Mrs. Hudson tells me that she believes Lady Hilda can still find that courage, and may yet confess the truth to her husband. My hope is that he will respond in terms as compassionate and loving as this poem.
Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested poetry form to try this week—a form we have not had before: the epistle.
poets.org states: Epistolary poems, from the Latin “epistula” for “letter," are, quite literally, poems that read as letters. As poems of direct address, they can be intimate and colloquial or formal and measured. The subject matter can range from philosophical investigation to a declaration of love to a list of errands, and epistles can take any form, from heroic couplets to free verse.
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, epistle, 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 Second Stain 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 Seamus Heaney
Note from Rachel: It is hard to tell the strength or weakness of a marriage from the outside. But even if we are anxious to seem perfect and beyond reproach in the bloom of early love, in time we learn to trust one another with our weaknesses and flaws as well. I like to imagine that, had Lady Hilda found the courage to take her husband into her confidence rather than acceding to blackmail, she might have discovered that their relationship was strong enough to survive. Mrs. Hudson tells me that she believes Lady Hilda can still find that courage, and may yet confess the truth to her husband. My hope is that he will respond in terms as compassionate and loving as this poem.
Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested poetry form to try this week—a form we have not had before: the epistle.
poets.org states: Epistolary poems, from the Latin “epistula” for “letter," are, quite literally, poems that read as letters. As poems of direct address, they can be intimate and colloquial or formal and measured. The subject matter can range from philosophical investigation to a declaration of love to a list of errands, and epistles can take any form, from heroic couplets to free verse.
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, epistle, 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 Second Stain in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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Clerihew
Date: 2017-01-29 08:15 am (UTC)Took up a profession to cope
A blackmailer’s victim who’s there at his kill –
Years later it’s Milverton’s blood that she’ll spill
Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-01-29 01:41 pm (UTC)Epistolary verse
Date: 2017-01-29 01:42 pm (UTC)Please walk on the stairs
Cease your violin airs
Reduce how much you smoke
Oh, and listen to folk
Eat your meals at sensible hours
Respond to Dr Watson’s glowers
I have put up your rent
To make up for the dent
In my budget for gin
So don’t make a din
Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-01-29 02:50 pm (UTC)Re: Epistolary verse
Date: 2017-01-29 02:55 pm (UTC)Very well played ^__^
Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-01-29 03:32 pm (UTC)RE: Epistolary verse
Date: 2017-01-29 04:43 pm (UTC)Re: Epistolary verse
Date: 2017-01-29 04:52 pm (UTC)Re: Epistolary verse
Date: 2017-01-29 04:53 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-01-29 07:16 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-01-29 07:17 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-01-29 07:19 pm (UTC)Epistle. Sonnet(ish). Hilda's letter. Lady Hilda/Mme. Henri Fournaye ('Marie')
Date: 2017-02-02 01:59 am (UTC)Don’t doubt I think of you as you of me.
A-blossom ‘midst green stem and petal curl,
a market bloom inclined so prettily.
Too shy was I to let heart’s wish unfurl
I sketched, hue-etched your charms for all to see
in chalk, on walk of stone, by market’s swirl
Soon caught, for naught, I sought to hide love’s glee.
Two bold, unsold to life’s unspoken churl,
went searching for an isle to breathe and be,
to swim, to dive for love’s uncultured pearl.
We found our Eden, there beside the sea.
Don’t doubt I dream of you, my heart’s true love,
Yours now and evermore, your Hilda-dove
Re: Epistle. Sonnet(ish). Hilda's letter. Lady Hilda/Mme. Henri Fournaye ('Marie')
Date: 2017-02-02 07:25 pm (UTC)Re: Epistle. Sonnet(ish). Hilda's letter. Lady Hilda/Mme. Henri Fournaye ('Marie')
Date: 2017-02-02 07:28 pm (UTC)Re: Epistle. Sonnet(ish). Hilda's letter. Lady Hilda/Mme. Henri Fournaye ('Marie')
Date: 2017-02-02 10:29 pm (UTC)I love those internal rhymes - especially I sketched, hue-etched your charms for all to see. Also rather fond of the phrase love’s uncultured pearl ^^
Re: Epistle. Sonnet(ish). Hilda's letter. Lady Hilda/Mme. Henri Fournaye ('Marie')
Date: 2017-02-02 10:34 pm (UTC)