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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.

Carrion Comfort

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Thank you so much to Rachel - a wonderful choice.

Here is also a new poetry form to try: the tricube.

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

...the tricube is a newer form and relatively unknown. Plus, it’s fun and easy to learn. This mathematical poem was introduced by Phillip Larrea.

Here are the rules of tricubes:

Each line contains three syllables.
Each stanza contains three lines.
Each poem contains three stanzas.

So we’re talking cubes in mathematical terms (to the third power). No rules for rhymes, meter, etc. Just three, three, and three.

Here is my example, inspired by the Doctor's story - specifically those... vivid... descriptions of the lady who shares my profession:

A charming,
and clever
detective…

A thick-necked,
hairy-lipped
hack writer.

Poem by
a ‘buxom
landlady’.

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, tricube, trine, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle

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

Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

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gardnerhill.livejournal.com

Mrs. Eugenia Ronder
Though wed, of another was fonder
The big cat was framed for the death of her man
But her beau was no lion – turned coward, and ran

thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com

And no more needs to be said - story in a nutshell.

I like the challenge of summarising the story in four little lines.

scfrankles.livejournal.com

I do like that last line especially.

Thanks - the final line has to carry most of the weight.

okapi1895.livejournal.com

Nice summary for a sad story without any real mystery.

A sad story about the human condition - like CARD a tale of love lost, a sordid affair, tragedy. But Holmes may have kept one death from this story's toll with his final admonition, unlike his helpless lament in CARD.

debriswoman

Very well told:-)

Thank you.

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Yeah, let's give this circus a pass, shall we? Don't sit too close to the lion's act!

Indeed.

A lot going on under the surface in that circus ^^"

And kudos for rhyming your tricube ^^

Yep, not all glitter and stardust.

"We're going to the circus, children!"
"Why, Mummy? We didn't do anything wrong!"

Precisely

Yes, so much going on underneath, unseen but still present.

A sad situation.

Very beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you:-)

There's something calm and controlled about the rhythm which just goes to make the poem feel even more poignant. Very moving.

Thank you, it is an odd pattern with rhymes in places which slow things down.

Absolutely lovely.

As I recall the good doctor has also called buildings 'buxom' or something to that effect. One would think he has something on the brain, perhaps b00bs!

I just wish the Doctor would keep his thoughts to himself!

I like the internal rhyme and alliteration of this one very much!

Prussian blue
bitter brew
almond sigh

Red bottle
of thought ill
will, not Thy

Brown cork plug
remains snug
by the by

Inspired choice of subject - I particularly like the opening stanza.

Thank you!

Very neat, with all the rhymes - and such a good description of the item.

Very well done...I, too, like the first verse in particular.

Thanks!

A lighthouse
Far from home
Secluded

Cormorant
Trained bird
Spills secrets

An MP
Much to lose
Should take care

Ooo! Very nice. I like 'spilled secrets' especially.

Great choice of subject, and well executed.

Thank you - the three seemed to suit the form rather well.

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

60 word ficlets for the 60 ACD Sherlock Holmes canon cases

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