Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Mazarin Stone

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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 Accompanist

By Dick Allen


Note from Rachel: I will confess that I am sometimes saddened when I see the good Dr. Watson relegated to minor supporting roles in Mr. Holmes's cases. I remember happier days. Yet, it is a comfort to me that he continues to lend his support where he may, offering as much or as little as our dear detective's plans require of him.



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


Wikipedia gives this definition:

The enuig, enueg or enuech (Old Occitan "complaint, vexation") is a genre of lyric poetry… ...the enuig was generally a litany of complaints, few of them connect topically to the others…

Raymond Hill defined an enueg as "the enumeration in epigrammatic style of a series of vexatious things".


Here is my example:


Mr. Holmes, Billy and the rooms -
Apparently they remain just the same.
My back locks whenever I bend.
I don’t need an outfit to play an old dame.

I can’t run as fast now when the carpet’s on fire.
I look in the mirror and see there my mother.
But the final indignity of my old age -
Waxwork-turning duties assigned to another.



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, enuig, 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, rimas dissolutas, 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 Mazarin Stone in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

Comments

Re: An enuig

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's what we're all thinking. Love the teacherly tone.

Re: An enuig

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

debriswoman said it so much more eloquently in her 60 ^__^

I come from a family of teachers (aunt and great-aunts) - I think I probably missed my vocation :P