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

[scfrankles]

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!

Comments

Holmes/Watson

[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

[smallhobbit]

Aw, again!

Re: Holmes/Watson

[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

[scfrankles]

I think I like this one the most of all. It's so elegantly formed - that parallel of Holmes' courage growing but Watson's courage being cut down.

Re: Holmes/Watson

[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.