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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.
Snake Oil, Snake Bite
By Dilruba Ahmed
Thank you so much to Rachel. And I thought we could also have a go at a new poetry form: nonsense verse.
Wikipedia gives this definition:
Nonsense verse is a form of nonsense literature usually employing strong prosodic elements like rhythm and rhyme. It is whimsical and humorous in tone… In some cases, the humor of nonsense verse is based on the incompatibility of phrases which make grammatical sense but semantic nonsense at least in certain interpretations, as in the traditional:
'I see' said the blind man to his deaf and dumb daughter
as he picked up his hammer and saw.
Other nonsense verse makes use of nonsense words—words without a clear meaning or any meaning at all… Other nonsense verse uses muddled or ambiguous grammar as well as invented words… Some simply illustrate nonsensical situations… Some nonsense verse simply presents contradictory or impossible scenarios in a matter-of-fact tone...
Here is my example:
I've painted Mr. Holmes all red.
A good detective should be bright.
And now I'll wash my clothes in gin.
It's sure to leave my corsets tight.
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, nonsense verse, 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 Sussex Vampire 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 Dilruba Ahmed
Thank you so much to Rachel. And I thought we could also have a go at a new poetry form: nonsense verse.
Wikipedia gives this definition:
Nonsense verse is a form of nonsense literature usually employing strong prosodic elements like rhythm and rhyme. It is whimsical and humorous in tone… In some cases, the humor of nonsense verse is based on the incompatibility of phrases which make grammatical sense but semantic nonsense at least in certain interpretations, as in the traditional:
'I see' said the blind man to his deaf and dumb daughter
as he picked up his hammer and saw.
Other nonsense verse makes use of nonsense words—words without a clear meaning or any meaning at all… Other nonsense verse uses muddled or ambiguous grammar as well as invented words… Some simply illustrate nonsensical situations… Some nonsense verse simply presents contradictory or impossible scenarios in a matter-of-fact tone...
Here is my example:
A good detective should be bright.
And now I'll wash my clothes in gin.
It's sure to leave my corsets tight.
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, nonsense verse, 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 Sussex Vampire in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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Clerihew
Date: 2017-04-09 07:09 am (UTC)Feared for his younger son
But don’t seek the shadows for demons that feed
Jealous siblings provide all the monsters you need
Nonsense verse
Date: 2017-04-09 12:20 pm (UTC)Got ink on his fingers
And painted his toe
Nails bright blue
Vittoria the circus belle
Swung from a trapeze
Slipped from the high wire
And landed on an
Elephant
Vogir the Hammersmith wonder
Astounded his followers
But then was eaten
By a very small bee
Ocelot, educated Ocelot
Sloth, meticulous Sloth
Mouselet, dreamy Mouselet
Fer-RET!
Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-04-09 12:21 pm (UTC)Re: Nonsense verse: what befell the circus belle?
Date: 2017-04-09 12:24 pm (UTC)RE: Nonsense verse
Date: 2017-04-09 12:59 pm (UTC)(Would you like to have a nice lie down, now?)
RE: Clerihew
Date: 2017-04-09 01:00 pm (UTC)Re: Nonsense verse
Date: 2017-04-09 01:07 pm (UTC)What, before the nice men in the white coats arrive?
RE: Re: Nonsense verse
Date: 2017-04-09 01:10 pm (UTC)They did ask me to keep you calm until they arrived.
Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-04-09 01:11 pm (UTC)Re: Nonsense verse: what befell the circus belle?
Date: 2017-04-09 01:13 pm (UTC)Re: Nonsense verse
Date: 2017-04-09 01:16 pm (UTC)Re: Nonsense verse
Date: 2017-04-09 01:20 pm (UTC)Re: Nonsense verse
Date: 2017-04-09 01:21 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-04-09 01:47 pm (UTC)Yes, I suppose stories of monsters have always been used as a way of dealing with the evil that human beings do.
Mrs. Hudson's poem
Date: 2017-04-09 01:50 pm (UTC)Re: Nonsense verse
Date: 2017-04-09 01:51 pm (UTC)Nonesense poem (we have A LOT of Dr. Seuss at my house; this is a parody of The Shape of Me)
Date: 2017-04-09 01:55 pm (UTC)The shape of Holmes
The shape of befouled catacombs
A ship
A secret
A stare
A sight
of blood when vampires first do bite.
Just think about the shape of creams,
Devonshire,
clotted,
and devoted maids’ screams.
Just think about the shape of clues
and from-afar suitors singing the blues.
The shape of gals
just being pals.
The shape of bodies in canals.
And the shapes of spaniels
the shapes of guns
the shape of a blow dart when it stuns
And the shape of rugger
And his woes
And when he worries,
his Big Bob grows!
Suppose Holmes was shaped like this
or that
or shaped like snog
or a Sumatran rat!
Of all the shapes he might have been
Watson says, ‘Oh, dear!’ for the shape he’s in!
Rachel's poem
Date: 2017-04-09 01:59 pm (UTC)Re: Nonsense verse: what befell the circus belle?
Date: 2017-04-09 02:00 pm (UTC)Or when, or why, or who did what
Although she longs to, quite a lot. ^_______^
The whole thing's just wonderful ^__^ *applauds wildly*
Re: Nonsense verse
Date: 2017-04-09 02:02 pm (UTC)Astounded his followers
But then was eaten
By a very small bee
I shall henceforth quote this whenever you mention my mind ^__^
Re: Nonsense verse
Date: 2017-04-09 02:08 pm (UTC)Re: Nonesense poem (we have A LOT of Dr. Seuss at my house; this is a parody of The Shape of Me)
Date: 2017-04-09 02:12 pm (UTC)Re: Nonesense poem (we have A LOT of Dr. Seuss at my house; this is a parody of The Shape of Me)
Date: 2017-04-09 02:36 pm (UTC)Particularly liked:
The shape of Watson/The shape of Holmes/The shape of befouled catacombs
The shape of gals/just being pals
And the shape of rugger/And his woes/And when he worries,/his Big Bob grows!
^_______^
RE: Re: Nonesense poem (we have A LOT of Dr. Seuss at my house; this is a parody of The Shape of Me)
Date: 2017-04-09 03:04 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Nonesense poem (we have A LOT of Dr. Seuss at my house; this is a parody of The Shape of Me)
Date: 2017-04-09 03:15 pm (UTC)