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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.
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
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 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:
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!
Mrs. Hudson
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Clerihew
Date: 2017-06-25 07:10 am (UTC)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
RE: Clerihew
Date: 2017-06-25 07:45 am (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-06-25 01:34 pm (UTC)Mrs. Hudson
Date: 2017-06-25 02:27 pm (UTC)Re: A tricube
Date: 2017-06-25 02:27 pm (UTC)Re: Veil...written earlier
Date: 2017-06-25 02:35 pm (UTC)Rachel's poem
Date: 2017-06-25 02:41 pm (UTC)tricube
Date: 2017-06-25 02:43 pm (UTC)bitter brew
almond sigh
Red bottle
of thought ill
will, not Thy
Brown cork plug
remains snug
by the by
Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-06-25 02:44 pm (UTC)Re: A tricube
Date: 2017-06-25 03:08 pm (UTC)And kudos for rhyming your tricube ^^
Re: Veil...written earlier
Date: 2017-06-25 03:14 pm (UTC)Re: Mrs. Hudson
Date: 2017-06-25 03:31 pm (UTC)Re: tricube
Date: 2017-06-25 03:32 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-06-25 04:08 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-06-25 04:10 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-06-25 04:15 pm (UTC)Re: A tricube
Date: 2017-06-25 04:16 pm (UTC)"Why, Mummy? We didn't do anything wrong!"
Re: tricube
Date: 2017-06-25 04:19 pm (UTC)Re: A tricube
Date: 2017-06-25 04:28 pm (UTC)Re: Veil...written earlier
Date: 2017-06-25 04:30 pm (UTC)Re: tricube
Date: 2017-06-25 04:32 pm (UTC)Tricube
Date: 2017-06-25 04:33 pm (UTC)Far from home
Secluded
Cormorant
Trained bird
Spills secrets
An MP
Much to lose
Should take care
Re: Tricube
Date: 2017-06-25 04:45 pm (UTC)Re: Tricube
Date: 2017-06-25 04:52 pm (UTC)RE: Clerihew
Date: 2017-06-25 05:00 pm (UTC)RE: Re: A tricube
Date: 2017-06-25 05:00 pm (UTC)RE: Re: A tricube
Date: 2017-06-25 05:01 pm (UTC)RE: Re: A tricube
Date: 2017-06-25 05:01 pm (UTC)RE: Re: A tricube
Date: 2017-06-25 05:01 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Veil...written earlier
Date: 2017-06-25 05:02 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Veil...written earlier
Date: 2017-06-25 05:02 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Veil...written earlier
Date: 2017-06-25 05:03 pm (UTC)RE: tricube
Date: 2017-06-25 05:04 pm (UTC)RE: Tricube
Date: 2017-06-25 05:04 pm (UTC)Re: tricube
Date: 2017-06-25 05:16 pm (UTC)Re: tricube
Date: 2017-06-25 05:17 pm (UTC)Re: Tricube
Date: 2017-06-25 05:19 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-06-25 06:08 pm (UTC)