Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Three Garridebs

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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.



The Kiss

By Kurt Brown


Note from Rachel: It was a declaration of love, perhaps, with only one thing left unconfessed.




Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is also a new poetry form to try: the trine.


Poetry Magnum Opus gives this definition:

The Trine is a verse form which apparently originated in France… Trine is Anglo-French meaning "three each"... The elements of the Trine are:

a poem in 9 lines made up of 3 rhymed couplets followed by a tercet.

isosyllabic, (same syllable count).

rhymed, rhyme scheme a a b b c c a b c.



Here is my example. I have chosen to use 14 syllables per line:


The widow of the gentleman who was born son of Hudde
Now rents out some fine rooms to gentlemen whose names are mud.
First tenant is an army doctor who is Walter’s son.
But unfortunately the horror’s only just begun.
Next tenant is the child of an island’s son or daughter.
(Is that why his sitting room’s under two foot of water?)
So, as I weep bitter tears and start to clear up the flood
Out of all of these facts, I can only find hope in one
They haven’t found a third to destroy my bricks and mortar.


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, trine, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by The Three Garridebs in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

Comments

Re: Triune (9 syllables)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

A very nice summation of that first paragraph - "cost me a bloodletting, cost another man his reason, cost another his freedom."

Re: Triune (9 syllables)

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It seemed the ideal subject for a triune.