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holmes_minorWelcome, everyone, once more!
Now, I must admit I am still feeling a little hesitant about travelling too far from home but I am beginning to dream of being “on the bummel” again! To that end, I have retired my faithful old carpet bag and bought one of those new-fangled suit-cases. They are mainly designed for a gentleman’s suits naturally, hence the name. However, I have managed to procure a lightweight version, aimed at the discerning lady—
Yes, Mrs. Frankles?
No, suit-cases haven’t been around for decades and decades.
I can assure you they are a recent invention.
Look, is this the digital watch business all over again? I can arrange for you to speak to Mr. Camkin at the luggage-maker’s down by the river, if you like. He’s been in trunks for over twenty years!
No, he’s never mentioned being chilly. I… don’t quite understand your sense of humour at times, Mrs. Frankles.
Anyway… moving along! I hope my new purchase might inspire your poetry.
And as added inspiration here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s story, “The Hound of the Baskervilles”:
Sir Henry was more pleased than surprised to see Sherlock Holmes, for he had for some days been expecting that recent events would bring him down from London. He did raise his eyebrows, however, when he found that my friend had neither any luggage nor any explanations for its absence.
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
And so, let’s get started. We have a lot to… “pack in”!
(That was unkind, Mrs. Frankles. Just because I didn’t understand your joke…)
Now, I must admit I am still feeling a little hesitant about travelling too far from home but I am beginning to dream of being “on the bummel” again! To that end, I have retired my faithful old carpet bag and bought one of those new-fangled suit-cases. They are mainly designed for a gentleman’s suits naturally, hence the name. However, I have managed to procure a lightweight version, aimed at the discerning lady—
Yes, Mrs. Frankles?
No, suit-cases haven’t been around for decades and decades.
I can assure you they are a recent invention.
Look, is this the digital watch business all over again? I can arrange for you to speak to Mr. Camkin at the luggage-maker’s down by the river, if you like. He’s been in trunks for over twenty years!
No, he’s never mentioned being chilly. I… don’t quite understand your sense of humour at times, Mrs. Frankles.
Anyway… moving along! I hope my new purchase might inspire your poetry.
And as added inspiration here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s story, “The Hound of the Baskervilles”:
Sir Henry was more pleased than surprised to see Sherlock Holmes, for he had for some days been expecting that recent events would bring him down from London. He did raise his eyebrows, however, when he found that my friend had neither any luggage nor any explanations for its absence.
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
And so, let’s get started. We have a lot to… “pack in”!
(That was unkind, Mrs. Frankles. Just because I didn’t understand your joke…)
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Date: 2021-09-23 03:54 pm (UTC)It all becomes rather a race
Grabbing one's possessions quite swiftly
Jamming them in the suitcase
We'll leave half the items behind us
Taking only the things which we need
Gin bottles are first on the list when
Departing the room at full speed
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Date: 2021-09-25 03:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-09-25 03:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-10-02 06:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-09-25 04:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-10-02 06:52 pm (UTC)But I hope you never feel any pressure to engage with these posts. If the prompts inspire you at any point, that's wonderful ^___^
The Portmanteau Sonnet
Date: 2021-09-28 11:31 pm (UTC)and sleuth’s right hand were hunting clews at dawn.
Their breaking fast was lost to tracking truth,
on went the morn, displays of wits and brawn.
Not yet mid-day but energies expired,
a pause was due, a station picked as site
at which to find the droll repast required,
at which to slake their thirst and have a bite.
A Sunday meal for Saturday strivers.
A blend of morsels, savory and sweet.
Perched on luggage freight, they sipped revivers,
and tucked away the rations, quick and neat.
They sat on trunks. They watched trains come and go.
They brunched atop the modern portmanteau.
Re: The Portmanteau Sonnet
Date: 2021-09-29 12:42 pm (UTC)Re: The Portmanteau Sonnet
Date: 2021-09-29 07:26 pm (UTC)Re: The Portmanteau Sonnet
Date: 2021-10-02 06:30 pm (UTC)And this is as wonderful as always ^___^ Some favourite lines:
Their breaking fast was lost to tracking truth,
A Sunday meal for Saturday strivers.
Perched on luggage freight, they sipped revivers,
And yes, adding to the applause for that final couplet ^___^
Re: The Portmanteau Sonnet
Date: 2021-10-02 07:43 pm (UTC)Re: The Portmanteau Sonnet
Date: 2021-11-01 02:40 pm (UTC)And I must admit now that until I read your reply I had completely missed the full wit of your final line ^^" I was thinking about the bag and the other meaning of "portmanteau" went right over my head ^____^ That's so clever ^_____^
A murderer's lament (sonnet)
Date: 2021-09-30 02:04 am (UTC)is said to be the last word in ‘refined.’
‘Suit-cases’ are expedient and yet
they appear to have left my lot behind.
Though just the thing for pilgrims touring light,
these boxes’ skeletons prove far too frail,
their shallow cavities are far too tight
for my own freight consigned by boat and rail.
A handle’s opportune, no one can deny,
for luggage-toting under one’s own steam,
but when a cargo needs a porter spry
or left-bags clerk, another reigns supreme.
The trunk! The trunk will never be replaced!
A corpse cannot be easily suitcased.
Re: A murderer's lament (sonnet)
Date: 2021-09-30 08:12 am (UTC)Re: A murderer's lament (sonnet)
Date: 2021-09-30 05:23 pm (UTC)Re: A murderer's lament (sonnet)
Date: 2021-10-02 06:37 pm (UTC)And I'm very taken by the second verse in particular - I really like: these boxes’ skeletons prove far too frail,/ their shallow cavities are far too tight. Gruesomely perfect choice of descriptive words ^^"
Re: A murderer's lament (sonnet)
Date: 2021-10-02 07:46 pm (UTC)A Different Murderer's Lament (sonnet)
Date: 2021-09-30 06:03 pm (UTC)for such a case is now a dying breed.
Prevailing trends allow for bare, flat locks
and softer crowns. The new girl has no need.
Young ladies who like to seem informed
on latest styles and all that’s marked smart-bred
will find their luggage choices much reformed,
but dash it all, a lass must keep her head!
She cannot wait for early spinsterhood
for leave to lug so old fashioned a tin.
Fruits of decapitation are a good
that want a round, deep case to haul them in.
Thus, miss must turn mademoiselle; her piece
must cross, Dover to Calais, in a valise!
Re: A Different Murderer's Lament (sonnet)
Date: 2021-09-30 07:17 pm (UTC)Re: A Different Murderer's Lament (sonnet)
Date: 2021-09-30 07:22 pm (UTC)Re: A Different Murderer's Lament (sonnet)
Date: 2021-10-02 06:39 pm (UTC)Clever and horribly amusing ^____^
Re: A Different Murderer's Lament (sonnet)
Date: 2021-10-02 07:48 pm (UTC)