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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.
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
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 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:
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!
Mrs. Hudson
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Clerihew
Date: 2017-04-30 07:23 am (UTC)Her brother concealed and walled her
To hide her condition and finish his sales –
For neither do dead women tell any tales
Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-04-30 10:44 am (UTC)Re: Two unrelated Shadormas
Date: 2017-04-30 10:45 am (UTC)And yes, once a gambler always a gambler, in everything. And he did have a fabulous stroke of 'luck.'
shadorma x 3
Date: 2017-04-30 10:54 am (UTC)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
Mrs. Hudson's poem
Date: 2017-04-30 10:59 am (UTC)shadorma (in Spanish)
Date: 2017-04-30 11:18 am (UTC)príncipe corre
como el
viento
para olvidarse de
su reina
[the sad Prince runs like the wind to forget his queen]
Shadorma
Date: 2017-04-30 12:20 pm (UTC)Murdered policeman
Blobs of glue
Found in cap
Belonging to the accused
Picture-frame maker
Re: shadorma x 3
Date: 2017-04-30 12:24 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-04-30 12:25 pm (UTC)Re: Two unrelated Shadormas
Date: 2017-04-30 12:26 pm (UTC)One could say Sir Robert, like his toast, was jammy.
Re: shadorma (in Spanish)
Date: 2017-04-30 12:28 pm (UTC)Re: Shadorma
Date: 2017-04-30 12:36 pm (UTC)Re: shadorma x 3
Date: 2017-04-30 12:39 pm (UTC)I had to listen to the pronunciation 10 times and then I still couldn't figure out what Saint Pancras rhymes with! So I finally just said fuck it and gave it my best shot. It sounded so strange.
Re: shadorma (in Spanish)
Date: 2017-04-30 12:40 pm (UTC)Re: shadorma x 3
Date: 2017-04-30 12:42 pm (UTC)Re: Shadorma
Date: 2017-04-30 12:43 pm (UTC)Re: shadorma (in Spanish)
Date: 2017-04-30 12:43 pm (UTC)Re: shadorma x 3
Date: 2017-04-30 12:46 pm (UTC)Re: shadorma (in Spanish)
Date: 2017-04-30 12:47 pm (UTC)Re: shadorma x 3
Date: 2017-04-30 12:54 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-04-30 02:57 pm (UTC)Re: Two unrelated Shadormas
Date: 2017-04-30 03:04 pm (UTC)And your second shadorma gave me a rueful smile - Sir Robert got more luck and a far happier ending than he deserved.
RE: Clerihew
Date: 2017-04-30 03:06 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Two unrelated Shadormas
Date: 2017-04-30 03:08 pm (UTC)And yes...defying the natural laws of comeuppance
RE: Re: Two unrelated Shadormas
Date: 2017-04-30 03:09 pm (UTC)And one could, particularly if one associated with Frankles for long enough:-p