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

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Welcome, everyone! I thought for easing into this new year we could have an evening of singing parlour songs together, which might lead into inspiring you to come up with your own. Sentimental… stirring… amusing… What’s that, Mrs. Frankles? Yes, “ribald,” is a possibility too.

To get things started I thought I would play a favourite love song of mine on the gramophone. “Love’s Old Sweet Song” by James Molloy, sung and played by Professor Derek B. Scott of the department of Critical Musicology, University of Leeds.


Let me just set the needle on the record…


Oh, lovely. Now do feel free, everyone, to rummage through my record collection to get more inspiration.



And here is a quotation to assist you from Dr. Watson’s story “The Adventure of the Retired Colourman”:


”Well, leave it there, Watson. Let us escape from this weary workaday world by the side door of music.”



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


All right, I believe Mrs. Frankles has now volunteered to sing “A LIfe on the Ocean Wave” for us…? Off you go then, dear. Do try not to go “overboard”!

Yes.

(Good luck, everyone…)

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