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

[scfrankles]

Welcome everyone, and thank you for joining me here at St. Paul’s Cathedral!

We will be taking a look round the building itself.

Then we will hear a little about the history of one of its bells: Great Paul.

And also go up to the belfry to hear and watch it in action! (Bring earplugs.)


And as added inspiration for your poems, here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s roman à clef, ‘The Sign of the Four':


At this moment there was a loud ring at the bell, and I could hear Mrs. Hudson, our landlady, raising her voice in a wail of expostulation and dismay.


Not so much fiction involved there, of course...



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

Comments

[smallhobbit]

Ding dong bell
What is there to tell?
I don’t know, I cannot hear
Because there’s a clanging bell quite near

Time to go
That sign’s one I know
To the Paternoster pub
For some drinks and a bit of good grub

[scfrankles]

Trust you to know where the nearest pub is :P

[smallhobbit]

It's an important detail!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Excellent!

[smallhobbit]

Thank you!