The Poetry Page: On The Bummel with Mrs. Hudson

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This month we will not be actually going out ‘on the bummel’ until the evening of the 31st. On that night we will first be accompanying the Baker Street Irregulars as they go Guising, and then at the end of the night we will be locating the nearest gin palace to toast Mrs. Small-Hobbit and celebrate her birthday. It should all be splendid!

Of course, the tradition when Guising at Hallowe’en is to do your party piece in exchange for a treat—offer a poem, a song or a joke. So now is the perfect time to write a new poem for the occasion. (Or a raucous drinking song for Mrs. S-H’s birthday party—Mrs. Frankles’ suggestion, not mine.)

You could also perhaps consider what you are going to wear for the Guising. I believe you are expected to dress up as the most terrifying thing you can possibly think of, and so I personally will be dressing as Mr. Holmes in possession of a box of matches and a distracted mind.

To assist you in your creative endeavours, here is a quotation from the other half of the reason most of the rent goes on renovation work. The quotation comes from ‘The Sign of the Four’, Chap. 3, ‘In Quest of a Solution’:


There was, to my mind, something eerie and ghostlike in the endless procession of faces which flitted across these narrow bars of light—sad faces and glad, haggard and merry. Like all humankind, they flitted from the gloom into the light and so back into the gloom once more.



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


And now you must excuse me—I hear something going bump in the night. It looks like I may have a rent bill to recalculate…

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This month we will not be actually going out ‘on the bummel’ until the evening of the 31st. On that night we will first be accompanying the Baker Street Irregulars as they go Guising, and then at the end of the night we will be locating the nearest gin palace to toast Mrs. Small-Hobbit and celebrate her birthday. It should all be splendid!

Of course, the tradition when Guising at Hallowe’en is to do your party piece in exchange for a treat—offer a poem, a song or a joke. So now is the perfect time to write a new poem for the occasion. (Or a raucous drinking song for Mrs. S-H’s birthday party—Mrs. Frankles’ suggestion, not mine.)

You could also perhaps consider what you are going to wear for the Guising. I believe you are expected to dress up as the most terrifying thing you can possibly think of, and so I personally will be dressing as Mr. Holmes in possession of a box of matches and a distracted mind.

To assist you in your creative endeavours, here is a quotation from the other half of the reason most of the rent goes on renovation work. The quotation comes from ‘The Sign of the Four’, Chap. 3, ‘In Quest of a Solution’:


There was, to my mind, something eerie and ghostlike in the endless procession of faces which flitted across these narrow bars of light—sad faces and glad, haggard and merry. Like all humankind, they flitted from the gloom into the light and so back into the gloom once more.



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


And now you must excuse me—I hear something going bump in the night. It looks like I may have a rent bill to recalculate…

Fic: Mr Broom and Mr Mop

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Title: Mr Broom and Mr Mop
Form/Word Count: 100
Characters/Pairing: Mr Sherlock Holmes/Inspector Stanley Hopkins (out of sight, but not out of mind), Mrs Hudson, Alice the new maid
Rating: G
Warning/Content: Mrs Hudson isn't above causing mischief.
Also written for drabble_zone 'Imaginary Friends' prompt

 

( Mr Broom and Mr Mop )