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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.
De Profundis
By Christina Rossetti
Note from Rachel: After her horrifying ordeal, Lady Frances Carfax will surely have a long and difficult recovery. For a time she may feel a stranger in this living world, but I believe her fortitude and noble spirit will bring her one day to true healing.
Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is also a new poetry form to try: the débat.
Poetry Magnum Opus gives this definition:
Débat , French for debate, is a poetic dialogue between 2 sides of an argument… The argument usually is over moralistic themes… It is the descendant of the 11th century Partimen, a favorite of the Occitan troubadours, verse in which one troubadour would pose a dilemma in the form of a question, then he and another would debate the answer in verse.
Since the Débat is a genre of poetry rather than a verse form, the frame or structure of the poem is at the discretion of the poet. When the argument or debate is between opposing sides who care for one another, such as lovers or parent and child, the verse is called an Eclogue Débat.
Here is my example:
Mrs. Hudson:
A single lady has to live,
But must it be through rooms to hire?
Violins, criminals, experiments
And of course the daily curtain fire.
Bank Account:
A single lady has to live
And though you have to face the rigours,
Mr. Holmes’s rent is a princely one.
Just cast your eye over my four figures!
Mrs. Hudson:
Financial security is not everything.
Something really has to give.
Come on, money—I’m taking you on holiday.
A single lady has to live!
But you do not have to use this 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, barzelletta, 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, débat, décima, 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, quatern, 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 The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax 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 Christina Rossetti
Note from Rachel: After her horrifying ordeal, Lady Frances Carfax will surely have a long and difficult recovery. For a time she may feel a stranger in this living world, but I believe her fortitude and noble spirit will bring her one day to true healing.
Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is also a new poetry form to try: the débat.
Poetry Magnum Opus gives this definition:
Débat , French for debate, is a poetic dialogue between 2 sides of an argument… The argument usually is over moralistic themes… It is the descendant of the 11th century Partimen, a favorite of the Occitan troubadours, verse in which one troubadour would pose a dilemma in the form of a question, then he and another would debate the answer in verse.
Since the Débat is a genre of poetry rather than a verse form, the frame or structure of the poem is at the discretion of the poet. When the argument or debate is between opposing sides who care for one another, such as lovers or parent and child, the verse is called an Eclogue Débat.
Here is my example:
A single lady has to live,
But must it be through rooms to hire?
Violins, criminals, experiments
And of course the daily curtain fire.
Bank Account:
A single lady has to live
And though you have to face the rigours,
Mr. Holmes’s rent is a princely one.
Just cast your eye over my four figures!
Mrs. Hudson:
Financial security is not everything.
Something really has to give.
Come on, money—I’m taking you on holiday.
A single lady has to live!
But you do not have to use this 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, barzelletta, 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, débat, décima, 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, quatern, 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 The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-28 07:12 am (UTC)Not as honourable as he would seem
Stalks an unwilling woman across half the world
And, left in his clutches, her fate is unfurled
Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-28 09:02 am (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-28 06:40 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-28 11:08 am (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-28 06:42 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-28 01:14 pm (UTC)Perhaps it's wishful thinking, but I kind of hope that during Lady Frances' recovery Green's honourable aspect will finally come to the fore.
Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-28 06:45 pm (UTC)RE: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-28 07:21 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-28 11:28 pm (UTC)Débat
Date: 2017-05-28 09:01 am (UTC)You travelled with by cab?
W: Oh really, Holmes, you must know
So why not have a stab
H: And who was it tied such a bow
As you are sporting on your lace?
W:To ask such questions really now
It’s truly not your place
H: And why must you go for Turkish
When an English bath will do?
W:That question I will answer now
‘Tis to escape from you
Re: Débat
Date: 2017-05-28 11:10 am (UTC)Re: Débat
Date: 2017-05-28 11:37 am (UTC)Re: Débat
Date: 2017-05-28 01:16 pm (UTC)Re: Débat
Date: 2017-05-28 01:24 pm (UTC)Re: Débat
Date: 2017-05-28 06:46 pm (UTC)Re: Débat
Date: 2017-05-28 07:03 pm (UTC)RE: Débat
Date: 2017-05-28 07:21 pm (UTC)Re: Débat
Date: 2017-05-28 07:35 pm (UTC)Re: A Débat: Last Straw
Date: 2017-05-28 11:10 am (UTC)RE: Re: A Débat: Last Straw
Date: 2017-05-28 07:22 pm (UTC)Thank you:-)
Re: A Débat: Last Straw
Date: 2017-05-28 11:39 am (UTC)RE: Re: A Débat: Last Straw
Date: 2017-05-28 07:22 pm (UTC)Re: A Débat: Last Straw
Date: 2017-05-28 01:25 pm (UTC)I hope Watson and Mrs. Hudson have a lovely time at the seaside ^__^
RE: Re: A Débat: Last Straw
Date: 2017-05-28 07:23 pm (UTC)Re: A Débat: Last Straw
Date: 2017-05-28 06:50 pm (UTC)RE: Re: A Débat: Last Straw
Date: 2017-05-28 07:23 pm (UTC)Mrs. Hudson's poem
Date: 2017-05-28 02:22 pm (UTC)Re: Mrs. Hudson's poem
Date: 2017-05-28 02:59 pm (UTC)(But, yes - also running away from Mr. Holmes.)
RE: Mrs. Hudson's poem
Date: 2017-05-28 07:24 pm (UTC)Debat
Date: 2017-05-30 04:27 pm (UTC)But why eschew the homemade bath,
invigorating, cheap, beneath stairs?
Explain, pray tell, the choice to swap
an English wash for Turkish wares.
Watson:
The Turkish bath relaxes, calms.
an oasis from worldly cares,
like reenactments of the fates
of sunken barques that flood the stairs!
What’s more I feel the years do wear
on joints and mind fatigued with frets
I seek to rid my system of
experiments (singed curtain debts)!
Holmes:
If change is what your heart desires
I’ve just the thing, my Watson dear.
How ‘bout a Continental trip,
but get your boots well-laced right here?
Re: Debat
Date: 2017-05-30 05:29 pm (UTC)Re: Debat
Date: 2017-05-30 06:00 pm (UTC)Re: Debat
Date: 2017-05-30 10:51 pm (UTC)Perfect choice of subject for your poem, madam. Also particularly liked like reenactments of the fates/ of sunken barques that flood the stairs! ^__^
Re: Debat
Date: 2017-05-31 10:45 am (UTC)I may return to Holmes's reenactments. There are quite a few 'lost ships' in canon.