Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: Shoscombe Old Place

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Welcome 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.



Amaryllis

By Edwin Arlington Robinson



Thank you so much to Rachel. And I thought we could also have a go at a new poetry form: the shadorma.

Robert Lee Brewer on Writer’s Digest gives this definition:

I recently discovered a poetic form called shadorma… that I had no record of in my two poetic form handbooks… Shadorma is a Spanish 6-line syllabic poem of 3/5/3/3/7/5 syllable lines respectively. Simple as that. Also, you can link multiple shadorma (shadormas? shadormae?)...



Here is my example:


Playing cards:
I like Gin Rummy.
But here in
Baker Street,
The most appropriate game
Is always Patience.




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, hay(na)ku, 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, rispetto, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, shadorma, sonnet, stream of consciousness, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by Shoscombe Old Place in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

Comments

Clerihew

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Lady Beatrice Falder
Her brother concealed and walled her
To hide her condition and finish his sales –
For neither do dead women tell any tales

Re: Clerihew

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Ooo! Very noirish ending! I like it! edited because nourish and noirish are not the same autocorrect!

Re: Clerihew

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

There's probably a cask of Amontillado in that chapel too...

Re: Clerihew

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Poor Lady Beatrice - but maybe better she didn't know what her brother would do.

Re: Clerihew

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Echoing the applause for that last line ^^

RE: Clerihew

[debriswoman]

Quite sinister

Re: Two unrelated Shadormas

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

The first one is about the dog, no? I feel so bad for the dog.

And yes, once a gambler always a gambler, in everything. And he did have a fabulous stroke of 'luck.'

Re: Two unrelated Shadormas

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Poor dog.

One could say Sir Robert, like his toast, was jammy.

Re: Two unrelated Shadormas

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

You do have to feel sorry for that poor spaniel.

And your second shadorma gave me a rueful smile - Sir Robert got more luck and a far happier ending than he deserved.

shadorma x 3

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Saint Pancras
his ashes and dust
carried thus
laid to rest
from Augustine’s story-chest
at great Pope’s behest

Saint Pancras
death most treasonous
evil’s pus
ends searches
between rail and old churches,
besmirches.

Saint Pancras
bears holy witness
to squareness
given import
the microscope lens does sort
truth from sport

Re: shadorma x 3

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Most impressive.

RE: shadorma x 3

[debriswoman]

Very clever:-)

Re: shadorma x 3

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

A great idea, and so well executed. And a nice bit of rhyming too ^__^

I know what you mean about 'Pancras'. I've grown up hearing and saying it but it's a bit difficult to pin down what the pronunciation actually is. Something between 'Pan-crus' and 'Pan-Chris'.

Re: shadorma x 3

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Wow. An amazing work. Almost needs to be written in gilt calligraphy on a vellum page.

Mrs. Hudson's poem

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

The patience joke will never get old--and never will be need for it, sadly!

Re: Mrs. Hudson's poem

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

So, so true, Mrs. O...

shadorma (in Spanish)

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

El triste
príncipe corre
como el
viento
para olvidarse de
su reina

[the sad Prince runs like the wind to forget his queen]

Re: shadorma (in Spanish)

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Nice idea - and very cleverly expressed.

RE: shadorma (in Spanish)

[debriswoman]

Even cleverer, and very apt

Re: shadorma (in Spanish)

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

That's beautiful - and how perfect and lovely to have a shadorma in the appropriate language ^_^

Shadorma

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

St Pancras
Murdered policeman
Blobs of glue
Found in cap
Belonging to the accused
Picture-frame maker

Re: Shadorma

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Great minds think alike. I like your summary.

RE: Shadorma

[debriswoman]

Neatly done:-)

Re: Shadorma

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I like the way you've arranged this. It feels like Holmes putting the facts in order and leading himself to the final deduction.