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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.
My Life’s Calling
By Deborah Digges
Note from Rachel: One could ask Mr. Holmes why he felt compelled to light a fire beneath that poison, but that is who Mr. Holmes is. Yet I wonder if, amid the confusion of his hallucinating brain, he might have regretted everything of hearth and home that he came so close to losing -- regretted the recklessness and the self-destruction. Perhaps, in the end, he stood on a cliff side in Cornwall after surviving the flames and took a good look at himself.
Thank you so much to Rachel. And I thought we could also have a go at a new poetry form: stream of consciousness.
Literary Devices gives this definition:
...stream of consciousness is a narrative form in which the author writes in a way that mimics or parallels a character’s internal thoughts. Sometimes this device is also called “internal monologue,” and often the style incorporates the natural chaos of thoughts and feelings that occur in any of our minds at any given time. Just as happens in real life, stream-of-consciousness narratives often lack associative leaps and are characterized by an absence of regular punctuation.
Difference Between Stream of Consciousness and Free Writing: The activity of free writing is a technique to remove inhibitions from creativity. Free writing encourages a writer to get words down on paper without editing or worrying about the product, knowing that most of it will not necessarily be all that interesting. Stream of consciousness, on the other hand, is writing that has been polished and has a purpose, even while giving the impression that it is somewhat “random.” Authors who use the technique of stream of consciousness do so with intentions to guide the character from one place to the next internally and not just let the character’s thoughts go haywire.
Here is my example:
Another poem to write…
Now let me have a think.
Oo, the sun’s shining prettily on the gin
Perhaps just a small drin—
No. No. Concentrate, Sybilla.
Just pick up your pen…
Has someone been chewing this?
Better not be Mr. Holmes again.
Can I make out a missing canine
in the bite mark..?
Heavens, I wonder if Mrs. Appleby ever found her spaniel.
I could ask the doctor to search the park.
I bet the flowers are looking lovely
All coming into bloom…
Oh, dear God. I think I’ve left my freshly laundered bloomers
in Mr. Holmes’s sitting room.
This is what comes of being distracted
from my never-ending toil.
(I wonder if that haddock
is finally coming to the boil…)
So it seems the literary community
will have to do without my ditty.
Pity.
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, blitz poem, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, compound word verse, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, echo verse, 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, lies, limerick, line messaging, list poem, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quintilla, renga, rhyming alliterisen, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, stream of consciousness, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle
Please leave all your poems inspired by The Devil’s Foot 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 Deborah Digges
Note from Rachel: One could ask Mr. Holmes why he felt compelled to light a fire beneath that poison, but that is who Mr. Holmes is. Yet I wonder if, amid the confusion of his hallucinating brain, he might have regretted everything of hearth and home that he came so close to losing -- regretted the recklessness and the self-destruction. Perhaps, in the end, he stood on a cliff side in Cornwall after surviving the flames and took a good look at himself.
Thank you so much to Rachel. And I thought we could also have a go at a new poetry form: stream of consciousness.
Literary Devices gives this definition:
...stream of consciousness is a narrative form in which the author writes in a way that mimics or parallels a character’s internal thoughts. Sometimes this device is also called “internal monologue,” and often the style incorporates the natural chaos of thoughts and feelings that occur in any of our minds at any given time. Just as happens in real life, stream-of-consciousness narratives often lack associative leaps and are characterized by an absence of regular punctuation.
Difference Between Stream of Consciousness and Free Writing: The activity of free writing is a technique to remove inhibitions from creativity. Free writing encourages a writer to get words down on paper without editing or worrying about the product, knowing that most of it will not necessarily be all that interesting. Stream of consciousness, on the other hand, is writing that has been polished and has a purpose, even while giving the impression that it is somewhat “random.” Authors who use the technique of stream of consciousness do so with intentions to guide the character from one place to the next internally and not just let the character’s thoughts go haywire.
Here is my example:
Now let me have a think.
Oo, the sun’s shining prettily on the gin
Perhaps just a small drin—
No. No. Concentrate, Sybilla.
Just pick up your pen…
Has someone been chewing this?
Better not be Mr. Holmes again.
Can I make out a missing canine
in the bite mark..?
Heavens, I wonder if Mrs. Appleby ever found her spaniel.
I could ask the doctor to search the park.
I bet the flowers are looking lovely
All coming into bloom…
Oh, dear God. I think I’ve left my freshly laundered bloomers
in Mr. Holmes’s sitting room.
This is what comes of being distracted
from my never-ending toil.
(I wonder if that haddock
is finally coming to the boil…)
So it seems the literary community
will have to do without my ditty.
Pity.
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, blitz poem, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, compound word verse, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, echo verse, 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, lies, limerick, line messaging, list poem, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quintilla, renga, rhyming alliterisen, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, stream of consciousness, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle
Please leave all your poems inspired by The Devil’s Foot in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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