The Poetry Page: On The Bummel with Mrs. Hudson

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Welcome all!

This month we are making a return trip to that wonderful music hall, YouTube. However, we aren’t going there to hear a singer. Instead they are having a cinema night! And the film we will be watching is Alice in Wonderland, which stars May Clark in the title role and is directed by Percy Stow and Cecil M. Hepworth. Hepworth Studios happens to be situated in Walton-on-Thames in Surrey, which coincidentally is where my cousin Ada and her family live. And apparently Ada’s granddaughter Selina has a small role in the film as the Three of Diamonds! It’s most exciting.

But just before we get going… You may remember that last time we travelled to YouTube there was a certain… incident. Mrs. Small-Hobbit was left behind when we departed from the hall in order to make our journey home.

And, well, I’m not trying to apportion blame here. And I’m not trying to point any fingers. Even if it was Mrs. Frankles who saw Mrs. S-M having one last drink in the bar and omitted to tell her we were leaving for the station.

No, I bring it up simply because I want to make sure this unfortunate occurrence doesn’t happen again. So I have personally arranged to have individual itineraries typed up for everyone, indicating times of trains and what to do in the case of separation from the main party. And to make absolutely certain that Mrs. Small-Hobbit will be returning home with the rest of us, I have put her in charge of distributing these itineraries.

And with that all sorted out, off to the station to catch the train to YouTube!



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And we’re back from Wonderland!

Wasn’t that splendid? Marvellous costumes and so atmospheric. And I thought Selina did so well. And we’re all back safely in one piece too! Nobody left behind this ti—

Actually…

Where is Mrs. Frankles?

Mrs. Small-Hobbit? You did give Mrs. Frankles a copy of the itinerary, didn’t you?

Mrs. Small-Hobbit...?

Oh, Mrs. Small-Hobbit. How could you?

Bessie, dear? Would you mind just popping down to Scotland Yard and letting Inspector Hopkins know we have another ‘Lost Lamb’ situation? Thank you.

And while we’re waiting for Mrs. Frankles to be rounded up, let us turn our thoughts to our poems.

Here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s story ‘The Empty House’, which may assist you in your compositions:


All was still and dark, save only that brilliant yellow screen in front of us with the black figure outlined upon its centre.


And here are the usual suggestions for 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


As always, all poems can be left as comments on my page!

(Any news, Bessie…? Oh, well. Fingers crossed.)