Admin Post: The Poetry Page: On The Bummel with Mrs. Hudson

[scfrankles]

As it is Eastertide, I thought this time we might go no further than the back garden and indulge in an Easter egg hunt!

(I must just emphasise that the plane tree remains out of bounds though. It still hasn’t quite recovered from Mr. Holmes climbing up after Roberts, the ‘Covent Garden Gooser,’ and I do not want to take any chances.)

Does everyone have a basket…? Excellent. So if you’ll follow me to the back door…

Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson are of course well-known connoisseurs of the hardboiled egg, and here is a quotation from one of the doctor’s… lesser… works ‘The Valley of Fear’ (if he brings it up, say you’re saving it for a special occasion. Which hell freezing over certainly is) to assist you in your poetic composition:


He was in his most cheerful and debonair humour. “My dear Watson, when I have exterminated that fourth egg I shall be ready to put you in touch with the whole situation.”



And here are the usual suggestions for poetry forms:

221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, alexandrine, ballad, barzelletta, beeswing, blackout poetry, blitz poem, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cherita, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, clogyrnach, 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, puente, 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, xenolith



And here we are in the garden! Please do feel free to look about. There may be other things as well as eggs to help you in your creative endeavours.


What about over there?

Or above our heads?

Or pegged on the washing line?

Something hiding in the shrubbery perhaps?

Or what about here?

Comments

[smallhobbit]

I had an Easter bonnet
But somebody sat upon it
I shall render tit for tat
By sitting on their Easter hat

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I do so like the bonnet / upon it rhyme! Marvelous!

[smallhobbit]

Thank you :)

[debriswoman]

A lovely lilt to it:-)

[smallhobbit]

Thank you!

[scfrankles]

Oh, very good ^___^ I think the elegant use of 'tit for tat' is particularly impressive ^__^

[smallhobbit]

It pays to be erudite.

Pantoum

[smallhobbit]

Our search for the Easter eggs begins at once
We’re looking all over the place
There are bunnies dressed in fanciful costumes
And presents of violets too

We’re looking all over the place
We have found the bottle of gin
And presents of Violets (two)
So, we’re taking our ease in the garden

We have found the bottle of gin
Now we’re feeling quite pleasantly sozzled
So, we’re taking our ease in the garden
Before it starts to rain

Now we’re feeling quite pleasantly sozzled
There are bunnies dressed in fanciful costumes.
Before it starts to rain
Our search for the Easter eggs begins at once

Re: Pantoum

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Ha, ha! I think that hunt is going to take a long time (and the rabbits will multiply!).

Re: Pantoum

[smallhobbit]

Yes - it's going to be slow progress!

Re: Pantoum

[debriswoman]

Excellent:-)

Re: Pantoum

[smallhobbit]

Thank you :)

Re: Pantoum

[scfrankles]

Very clever ^___^ I'm rather taken with the reworking of Now we’re feeling quite pleasantly sozzled/ There are bunnies dressed in fanciful costumes at the end. That's the effect of gin for you ^__^

Re: Pantoum

[smallhobbit]

Inspired by some of those cards and there couldn't be a hunt without finding gin.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Holmes dressed up like Easter bunny
Watson's laughing, thinks it's funny
Case is sticky (and it's rummy)
Chocolate eggs in someone's tummy.

[smallhobbit]

Perfect Easter rhyme.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you!

[debriswoman]

Awww

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Hee!

[scfrankles]

Very sweet in both meanings ^___^ The imagery is quite something ^___^

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! Yes, Holmes in a bunny suit is an image to consider!