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

[scfrankles]

If you could just remove your elbow from my ribcage, Mrs. Frankles…? Thank you, yes, that is a little better.

Now, to continue with the theme of ‘freedom,’ we were of course going to go out and buy new outfits of rational dress and consider alternatives to, ahem, corsets. But I think we are going to have to postpone that, seeing as we are now all locked in my broom cupboard.

(Honestly, why you all had to come in with me to search for my purse—! Sorry. Sorry. No use crying over spilt milk. Or indeed slipped latches.)

Small blessings—at least we are not locked in with Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson, or various Scotland Yard inspectors. Though those first two gentlemen will likely be our saviours, when they arrive back from Birmingham in, oo, 12 or 13 hours. (Stay calm, Mrs. Hudson, stay calm. You’ve been through worse. No, I don’t think a hug is going to help, Mrs. Small-Hobbit. But thank you for the offer.)

To pass the time, shall we make a start on composing poems? Perhaps musing on possible escape plans, both realistic and outlandish?

As extra inspiration, here off the top of my head are some lines from Dr. Watson’s story ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles,’ quoting specifically Mr. Holmes:



“It is a singular thing, but I find that a concentrated atmosphere helps a concentration of thought. I have not pushed it to the length of getting into a box to think, but that is the logical outcome of my convictions.”




And let me also list 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


So, let us begin. It’s going to be a long, long wait...

Comments

[smallhobbit]

Oh dear, what can the matter be?
Several ladies in a cupboard, good job they’re not fatter (hee!)
Mr Holmes doesn’t get home ‘til next Saturday
What will they do while they wait?


They came in to help find a purse for the landlady
They couldn’t have known that the latch was quite shady
It’s been so misused that it’s well past its heyday
And now they’re in quite a state

[scfrankles]

D'you know, my parents used to sing it as: "Oh, dear, what can the matter be?/ Frankles is locked in the lavatory./ She's been there from Monday to Saturday/ And nobody knew she was there!" ^____^

I do particularly like the lines: They couldn’t have known that the latch was quite shady/ It’s been so misused that it’s well past its heyday ^___^

[smallhobbit]

I thought you might recognise the song, although I didn't know it had quite such a personal version!

Those lines were fun to write :)

[debriswoman]

Excellent:-)

[smallhobbit]

Thank you!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Although quite strange,
it such a change
because it's quiet.
No sleuth-and-doctor riot
to disturb.
Quite absurd, of course,
but,
I rather like it,
this bedsit.

[smallhobbit]

Make the most of it, Mrs H, it won't last!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Absolutely!