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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.
Usually at this point my housemaid Rachel, inspired by the week’s story, comes up with a poem for us all to read but she has suggested something a little different this time. And so today we are all going on an excursion to an apparently world famous music hall: ‘YouTube’, where we will listen to Miss Carly Simon sing ‘You’re So Vain’. (I will be providing a hamper of various foodstuffs for the trip. However, I must emphasise the gin is for my use only—if you wish to buy an alcoholic drink I believe a bar is available.)
The express train to YouTube can be caught here.
Everyone back safely? Splendid!
Though…
Where is Mrs. Small-Hobbit?
Yes, Mrs. Frankles?
Well, if you saw her having a final cider in the bar, why on earth did you not tell her we were leaving for the station?
Oh… Yes, I suppose I can agree she does tend to have an unfortunate effect on the railways but... Did you at least leave her your Bradshaw?
You did?
Fingers crossed then.
So let’s move on! Here is a new poetry form to try: the descort.
Robert Lee Brewer on Writer’s Digest gives this definition:
The descort differentiates itself from other forms by differentiating its lines from other lines within the poem. That is, the main rule of descort poems is that each line needs to be different from every other line in the poem.
A descort poem has different line lengths, meters, avoids rhyming with other lines, no refrains, and that goes for stanzas as well. In other words, no two lines in a descort should look like each other, and the same could be said for each descort.
Note: This is different than free verse, because even free verse may occasionally have similar line lengths and meter. However, descort is very intentional in its variability.
Here is my example:
Here
In the caliginous, crepuscular, comfortless gloom,
It’s not to hide my fading looks.
Mr. Holmes has shot out the bulbs.
(Fa la la la.)
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, descort, 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 Three Gables 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.
Usually at this point my housemaid Rachel, inspired by the week’s story, comes up with a poem for us all to read but she has suggested something a little different this time. And so today we are all going on an excursion to an apparently world famous music hall: ‘YouTube’, where we will listen to Miss Carly Simon sing ‘You’re So Vain’. (I will be providing a hamper of various foodstuffs for the trip. However, I must emphasise the gin is for my use only—if you wish to buy an alcoholic drink I believe a bar is available.)
The express train to YouTube can be caught here.
Everyone back safely? Splendid!
Though…
Where is Mrs. Small-Hobbit?
Yes, Mrs. Frankles?
Well, if you saw her having a final cider in the bar, why on earth did you not tell her we were leaving for the station?
Oh… Yes, I suppose I can agree she does tend to have an unfortunate effect on the railways but... Did you at least leave her your Bradshaw?
You did?
Fingers crossed then.
So let’s move on! Here is a new poetry form to try: the descort.
Robert Lee Brewer on Writer’s Digest gives this definition:
The descort differentiates itself from other forms by differentiating its lines from other lines within the poem. That is, the main rule of descort poems is that each line needs to be different from every other line in the poem.
A descort poem has different line lengths, meters, avoids rhyming with other lines, no refrains, and that goes for stanzas as well. In other words, no two lines in a descort should look like each other, and the same could be said for each descort.
Note: This is different than free verse, because even free verse may occasionally have similar line lengths and meter. However, descort is very intentional in its variability.
Here is my example:
In the caliginous, crepuscular, comfortless gloom,
It’s not to hide my fading looks.
Mr. Holmes has shot out the bulbs.
(Fa la la la.)
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, descort, 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 Three Gables in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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Clerihew
Date: 2017-07-02 07:08 am (UTC)Hired for punches and kicks. He
Threatened the sleuth and was driven away
(Holmes, beneath you, the racist things that you say)
Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-07-02 11:50 am (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-07-02 06:54 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-07-02 02:42 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-07-02 06:55 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-07-02 03:34 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-07-02 07:02 pm (UTC)RE: Clerihew
Date: 2017-07-02 03:42 pm (UTC)Such an odd tale.
Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-07-02 07:03 pm (UTC)Re: On the subject of descorts
Date: 2017-07-02 11:50 am (UTC)RE: Re: On the subject of descorts
Date: 2017-07-02 03:43 pm (UTC)Re: On the subject of descorts
Date: 2017-07-02 02:43 pm (UTC)RE: Re: On the subject of descorts
Date: 2017-07-02 03:44 pm (UTC)Re: On the subject of descorts
Date: 2017-07-02 03:38 pm (UTC)RE: Re: On the subject of descorts
Date: 2017-07-02 03:45 pm (UTC)Not his finest tale:-)
Note from Inspector Lestrade
Date: 2017-07-02 11:46 am (UTC)We will return her when she finally stops singing.
Re: Note from Inspector Lestrade
Date: 2017-07-02 03:43 pm (UTC)Either a descort or the Ferret has been drinking punch again
Date: 2017-07-02 11:48 am (UTC)I am a Ferret
Steve Dixie had a salmon-coloured tie
Go to Three Gables by train
And cab
Walking is nice
Doctor Watson has a moustache
Re: Either a descort or the Ferret has been drinking punch again
Date: 2017-07-02 02:44 pm (UTC)Re: Either a descort or the Ferret has been drinking punch again
Date: 2017-07-02 02:54 pm (UTC)If there is a bar, I'll have some more cider ;)
Re: Either a descort or the Ferret has been drinking punch again
Date: 2017-07-02 03:47 pm (UTC)And for some reason, that last 'Doctor Watson has a moustache' left me helpless with laughter ^___^
Re: Either a descort or the Ferret has been drinking punch again
Date: 2017-07-02 03:54 pm (UTC)Re: Either a descort or the Ferret has been drinking punch again
Date: 2017-07-02 04:12 pm (UTC)Re: Either a descort or the Ferret has been drinking punch again
Date: 2017-07-02 04:14 pm (UTC)Re: Either a descort or the Ferret has been drinking punch again
Date: 2017-07-02 04:24 pm (UTC)RE: Either a descort or the Ferret has been drinking punch again
Date: 2017-07-02 03:46 pm (UTC)I reckon it's the punch
Re: Either a descort or the Ferret has been drinking punch again
Date: 2017-07-02 03:54 pm (UTC)descort
Date: 2017-07-02 02:48 pm (UTC)(Old Imari pattern)
perfect for
a
March Hare’s party.
Rare, perhaps, but the real mystery is why one’d want to nibble scones from a bone china playing card in which there was a grave possibility of losing sight of them in the foliage and being distracted from one’s afternoon Darjeeling by the riddle of which suit is trumps on the side of one’s cup.
No, thank you, Mrs. Maberley,
I’ll take
244
pages of your son’s
revenge porn
and be on my way. For I’m late, you see, for…
…what I can’t say!
Re: descort
Date: 2017-07-02 02:55 pm (UTC)Re: descort
Date: 2017-07-02 04:13 pm (UTC)RE: descort
Date: 2017-07-02 03:46 pm (UTC)Re: descort
Date: 2017-07-02 04:16 pm (UTC)Thank you!
Re: descort
Date: 2017-07-02 03:52 pm (UTC)Re: descort
Date: 2017-07-02 04:20 pm (UTC)Mrs. Hudson's poem
Date: 2017-07-02 04:29 pm (UTC)RE: Mrs. Hudson's poem
Date: 2017-07-02 06:03 pm (UTC)Re: Mrs. Hudson's poem
Date: 2017-07-02 08:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-07-02 07:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-07-02 08:13 pm (UTC)