Sherlock Holmes: 60 for 60

[This is a slightly revised repost from Round 4.]

This week we’re having a look at The Yellow Face.

( Discussion continues... )

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, are this week’s suggested poems to read—suggestions inspired by the themes and subjects in this week's story. Hopefully you will enjoy the poems, and perhaps they 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.


Fragment

by Angelina Weld Grimke


Let No Charitable Hope

by Elinor Wylie


Note from Rachel: This first poem fragment was written by a woman of mixed race, the daughter of a white American abolitionist and an African American father. The poem reflects her pain and struggle. The second poem adopts similar themes, but has a quietly victorious conclusion – I’d like to imagine that the lovely young girl in Dr. Watson’s story will still be able to find happiness as she grows older despite the terrible injustices she will undoubtedly face.




Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the sedoka. (The link will take you back to a previous poetry page.)


But you do not have to use that 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, beeswing, blackout poetry, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, epigram, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quintilla, renga, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle


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



Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

This Sunday, 15th May, we'll be posting our 60 word ficlets for The Yellow Face.

So we come to Holmes' most famous failure. A loving couple have become estranged: just what is the secret that Mrs. Munro is keeping from her husband? Who is the stranger that has come between them?

If you haven't tried 60 for 60 before, full information - including our schedule - can be found on our profile. But in essence: you read ACD's story and then you write a 60 word story inspired by it! You don't have to post a story every week - just join in whenever you feel like it.

Each Sunday we will also have our weekly discussion post, where we discuss a topic inspired by the canon story. And there’s Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page too - any poems written about this week’s story can be left as a comment on her post. Mrs. Hudson informs me that the poetry form being revisited this week is the sedoka. And as always, her housemaid Rachel will be suggesting poems for us to read, to give us added inspiration.

You can choose one activity, or have a go at everything. Or just come along and read the 60s! (And have a chat in the comments.) All options are absolutely fine.

Hope to see you on Sunday. But don’t worry if you can’t join us then - we stay open for posting and commenting all week!

Welcome once again to my poetry page!

I hope each week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative and then be inspired 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.

This week my featured form is colour poems.

In the doctor’s story, we have of course a yellow mask. And there is also the apparent importance attached to the colour of one’s skin, which happily turns out not to be important at all—at least for one family.

( Definition and Example )



As always, this is simply something to consider for the future. Any form of poetry is welcome this week—and every week! Here are a few suggestions for you:

221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, diamante, doggerel, epigram, epulaeryu, fable, haiku, limerick, palindrome poetry, riddle, sedoka, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triolet, tyburn, villanelle


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


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

This Sunday, 17th May, we'll be posting our 60 word ficlets for The Yellow Face.

A close and loving couple have suddenly become estranged. Can Holmes discover the secret that Mrs. Munro is keeping from her distressed husband?

If you haven't tried 60 for 60 before, full information - including our schedule - can be found on our profile. But in essence: you read ACD's story and then you write a 60 word story inspired by it! You don't have to post a story every week - just join in whenever you feel like it.

Each Sunday we will also have our weekly discussion post, and Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page. Any poems inspired by this week’s story can be left as a comment on her post.

You can choose one activity, or have a go at everything. Or just come along and read the 60s! (And have a chat in the comments ^^) All options are absolutely fine.

Hope to see you on Sunday ^^


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