The Poetry Page: On The Bummel with Mrs. Hudson

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Welcome, everybody! I see everyone has made it to Mrs. Turner’s safely!

Today, as a Christmas treat, Mrs. Turner has arranged a small, intimate concert for us and other friends. So, if you’ll just follow me into the parlour…

Do you know, I have never been in Mrs. Turner’s parlour befo— Good heavens. Is that Mrs. P.’s stuffed heron, top right…? (No! Don’t everyone stare at once!)

Now then. The musicians playing today are called Diabolus in Musica. (I think you can tell from their sense of humour that they’re friends of Mrs. Turner.) While they’re getting ready, let me remind you of a quotation from Dr. Watson’s debut work, ‘A Study in Scarlet’:


"It was magnificent," he said, as he took his seat. "Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood."



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


But the musicians are now ready!


And on the programme today we have:

a medley of carols

followed by

a rather cheeky song from America (I did say they were friends of Mrs. Turner.) They will be using the song’s original tune, which may be a little different to the one you are familiar with.


The compliments of the season to one and all!

Admin Post: The Poetry Page: On The Bummel with Mrs. Hudson

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Welcome, everybody! I see everyone has made it to Mrs. Turner’s safely!

Today, as a Christmas treat, Mrs. Turner has arranged a small, intimate concert for us and other friends. So, if you’ll just follow me into the parlour…

Do you know, I have never been in Mrs. Turner’s parlour befo— Good heavens. Is that Mrs. P.’s stuffed heron, top right…? (No! Don’t everyone stare at once!)

Now then. The musicians playing today are called Diabolus in Musica. (I think you can tell from their sense of humour that they’re friends of Mrs. Turner.) While they’re getting ready, let me remind you of a quotation from Dr. Watson’s debut work, ‘A Study in Scarlet’:


"It was magnificent," he said, as he took his seat. "Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood."



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


But the musicians are now ready!


And on the programme today we have:

a medley of carols

followed by

a rather cheeky song from America (I did say they were friends of Mrs. Turner.) They will be using the song’s original tune, which may be a little different to the one you are familiar with.


The compliments of the season to one and all!

Fic: We Three Kings: Gen

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Title: We Three Kings
Rating: Gen
Length: 500
Summary: Mrs. Hudson & Mrs. Turner do something special each Christmas
Notes: for the monthly prompt, also for my Ladies Bingo square 'The Theatre.'

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