scfrankles: (Mrs. Hudson)
[personal profile] scfrankles posting in [community profile] holmes_minor
Hello 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!

Holmes/Trevor (unresolved)

Date: 2020-02-28 09:45 pm (UTC)
stonepicnicking_okapi: okapi (heart)
From: [personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi
[An AU where witching lockets are a kind of soulmate token]

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: 2020-02-29 12:50 am (UTC)
stonepicnicking_okapi: okapi (Default)
From: [personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi
Yes. Maybe more angst to come.

Re: Holmes/Trevor (unresolved)

Date: 2020-03-02 08:24 pm (UTC)
stonepicnicking_okapi: okapi (heart)
From: [personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi
Thank you. The Trevor/Holmes pairing always gives me wistful feels.

29th February: Mrs Hudson

Date: 2020-02-29 09:41 pm (UTC)
smallhobbit: (Holmes Watson Granada)
From: [personal profile] smallhobbit
I'm going to make a proposal
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)
stonepicnicking_okapi: okapi (heart)
From: [personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi
Quite the business lady, our Mrs. Hudson!

Re: 29th February: Mrs Hudson

Date: 2020-03-01 05:40 pm (UTC)
smallhobbit: (Holmes Watson Granada)
From: [personal profile] smallhobbit
She's not going to let romantic notions get in the way of paying for her gin!

Re: 29th February: Mrs Hudson

Date: 2020-03-02 05:29 pm (UTC)
smallhobbit: (Holmes Watson Granada)
From: [personal profile] smallhobbit
Certainly as far as Mrs Hudson is concerned!

More Witching Locket. Mary/Watson. Angst.

Date: 2020-03-01 05:12 pm (UTC)
stonepicnicking_okapi: okapi (heart)
From: [personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi
Your witching locket on my breast,
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.

Holmes/Watson

Date: 2020-03-02 12:39 am (UTC)
stonepicnicking_okapi: okapi (heart)
From: [personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi
A witching locket never shared,
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 08:27 pm (UTC)
stonepicnicking_okapi: okapi (heart)
From: [personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi
Yes, another sad one. BTW, what I am doing with all of these is poetry exercise #5 of Stephen Fry's The Ode Less Travelled, which is dealing with different kinds of feet in a tetrameter lines.

Re: Holmes/Watson

Date: 2020-03-02 08:28 pm (UTC)
stonepicnicking_okapi: okapi (heart)
From: [personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi
The stiff upper lips are wobbling but in opposite directions. As I mentioned to Hobbit, I am doing #5 exercise of Stephen Fry's The Ode Less Travelled which is different feet in a tetrameter stanza of 4 lines.

The Last of the Witching Lockets. Holmes/Watson

Date: 2020-03-02 08:23 pm (UTC)
stonepicnicking_okapi: okapi (heart)
From: [personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi
Witching lockets sunk in pockets,
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!

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