Admin Post: The Poetry Page: Social Distancing with Mrs. Hudson

[scfrankles]

Oh, great heavens—I’m running so very late this month. Are we all up and awake again?

Now, I know our whisky tasting evening seemed initially like a good idea… but I think ultimately it may have been a mistake. Certainly extending it over the entire weekend was not the best of decisions… What did we end up deciding on as the winner. Mrs. Frankles?

Dear God, Mrs. Frankles, do you have to yell like that?! What? Are you sure that’s what you’re doing? Well, whisper a bit more quietly, dear, please. So, what was the winner?

Oh, Bell’s whisky, yes. Which reminds me—Mrs. Small-Hobbit, could you go and answer that doorbell, The constant ringing is driving me mad. What? Oh. Well, is anybody else hearing it? I see.

I think I might retire back to a darkened room, with a cool, wet cloth on my forehead, and leave the rest of you to compose. Quietly.


Here is a quotation to assist you from Dr. Watson’s story “The Adventure of the Creeping Man”:


Holmes smiled and rubbed his hands. We were, I may say, seated in the old sitting-room of the ancient hotel, with a bottle of the famous vintage of which Holmes had spoken on the table between us.



Here as usual is the 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


Right, if you need me, I will be in my room—mentally drafting my application to the National Temperance Federation.

Comments

Hiatus Rondeau

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Oranges and lemons say the bells of Saint Clements,
sweetly their tolling, damascenes and persimmons,
prettily pealing, through the streets the loud bells sing
merrily reeling, from on high the proud bells swing
sounding, resounding with their heraldic tremens.

Steaming the windows and perfuming the linens
cinnamon, nutmeg, all at sixes and sevens,
simmering, mulling, on the stove, all sliced, a-ring
oranges and lemons.

Wine of my heart, of this wide flood, there’s no stemming,
missing, regretting, prolonged exile is penance,
hindsight protracted, left to stew will only bring
longing for home which burns with bitter-sour sting,
what I'd give to hear the sweet bells of Saint Clements’
‘Oranges and Lemons.’

Re: Hiatus Rondeau

[scfrankles]

Oh, that's beautiful ^^" Both heartwarming and so poignant.

I'm particularly taken with:

sweetly their tolling, damascenes and persimmons,

and

Steaming the windows and perfuming the linens/ cinnamon, nutmeg, all at sixes and sevens, "At sixes and sevens" is such an apt and evocative phrase for everything bubbling together in the pan.

Re: Hiatus Rondeau

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! I liked the damascenes and persimmons line, too. debriswoman has been doing some rondeaus so I thought I'd try some. I still am working on the whiskey angle :)

Re: Hiatus Rondeau

[smallhobbit]

What a lovely poem - poor Holmes, missing all the little things about home.

Re: Hiatus Rondeau

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yes, a poignant canon tie-in. I do like your icon!