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holmes_minorHello everyone and welcome once again!
We are in February—a month associated with St. Valentine’s Day and thus with romance. And the heart motif in jewellery is rather popular in general at this current time.
So this month we are going to an exhibition of contemporary jewellery that uses this particular motif, hosted by Victoriana Magazine!
As extra inspiration for your poems, here is a classic quotation from Dr. Watson’s story “The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot”:
“Upon my word, Watson!” said Holmes at last with an unsteady voice, “I owe you both my thanks and an apology. It was an unjustifiable experiment even for one's self, and doubly so for a friend. I am really very sorry.”
“You know,” I answered with some emotion, for I have never seen so much of Holmes's heart before, “that it is my greatest joy and privilege to help you.”
And here is the usual list of 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
With all my heart, I hope that you’ll join me. And so to the bus stop!
We are in February—a month associated with St. Valentine’s Day and thus with romance. And the heart motif in jewellery is rather popular in general at this current time.
So this month we are going to an exhibition of contemporary jewellery that uses this particular motif, hosted by Victoriana Magazine!
As extra inspiration for your poems, here is a classic quotation from Dr. Watson’s story “The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot”:
“Upon my word, Watson!” said Holmes at last with an unsteady voice, “I owe you both my thanks and an apology. It was an unjustifiable experiment even for one's self, and doubly so for a friend. I am really very sorry.”
“You know,” I answered with some emotion, for I have never seen so much of Holmes's heart before, “that it is my greatest joy and privilege to help you.”
And here is the usual list of 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
With all my heart, I hope that you’ll join me. And so to the bus stop!
Holmes/Trevor (unresolved)
Date: 2020-02-28 09:45 pm (UTC)My witching locket is of gold.
A heart to give, a heart to spill.
Our moment came, fell ill, grew old.
My pocket bears a curved crease still.
My little silver heart was yours.
It was to cross your palm that day.
But opened secrets closed our doors.
My fate, my locket sailed away.
Re: Holmes/Trevor (unresolved)
Date: 2020-02-28 11:15 pm (UTC)Re: Holmes/Trevor (unresolved)
Date: 2020-02-29 12:50 am (UTC)Re: Holmes/Trevor (unresolved)
Date: 2020-03-02 05:18 pm (UTC)Re: Holmes/Trevor (unresolved)
Date: 2020-03-02 08:24 pm (UTC)29th February: Mrs Hudson
Date: 2020-02-29 09:41 pm (UTC)And make use of this auspicious day
I'm wearing my heart-shaped locket
And am preparing myself to make hay
For I'm doubling this month's rent increase
And my tenants will just have to pay.
Re: 29th February: Mrs Hudson
Date: 2020-03-01 05:02 pm (UTC)Re: 29th February: Mrs Hudson
Date: 2020-03-01 05:40 pm (UTC)Re: 29th February: Mrs Hudson
Date: 2020-03-02 05:19 pm (UTC)Re: 29th February: Mrs Hudson
Date: 2020-03-02 05:29 pm (UTC)More Witching Locket. Mary/Watson. Angst.
Date: 2020-03-01 05:12 pm (UTC)I was the richest maid.
But now, my trove, before I rest,
on yours I wish it laid.
The lesson of the witching heart,
the dearest one I've learned:
what's given, loved, from love may part
and one day be returned.
Re: More Witching Locket. Mary/Watson. Angst.
Date: 2020-03-01 05:41 pm (UTC)Re: More Witching Locket. Mary/Watson. Angst.
Date: 2020-03-02 08:25 pm (UTC)Re: More Witching Locket. Mary/Watson. Angst.
Date: 2020-03-02 05:22 pm (UTC)Re: More Witching Locket. Mary/Watson. Angst.
Date: 2020-03-02 08:25 pm (UTC)Holmes/Watson
Date: 2020-03-02 12:39 am (UTC)forgotten until late,
then something seedling, something dared,
I ponder tempting fate.
A witching locket held, re-held,
could it be held once more?
I hesitate, my courage felled,
resisting love's encore
Re: Holmes/Watson
Date: 2020-03-02 12:27 pm (UTC)Re: Holmes/Watson
Date: 2020-03-02 08:27 pm (UTC)Re: Holmes/Watson
Date: 2020-03-02 05:25 pm (UTC)Re: Holmes/Watson
Date: 2020-03-02 08:28 pm (UTC)The Last of the Witching Lockets. Holmes/Watson
Date: 2020-03-02 08:23 pm (UTC)burning holes just where they’re lying,
heated gazes bulge the sockets,
keeping uppers stiff is trying.
Finally, a frank confession
flies the ointment, cracks the lens;
hearts exchanged with warm expression,
slaying fears, devotion wins!
Re: The Last of the Witching Lockets. Holmes/Watson
Date: 2020-03-02 08:27 pm (UTC)Re: The Last of the Witching Lockets. Holmes/Watson
Date: 2020-03-02 08:29 pm (UTC)