The Poetry Page: On The Bummel with Mrs. Hudson

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Is everyone here? And in bloomers? Excellent. Rational dress is indeed called for in these circumstances.

Now, the casual observer may have noticed that there has been no activity post this month, and this observer may have chalked it up to Mrs. Frankles’ traditional January slump with its accompanying moping.

However, of course this month’s activity had to be kept entirely secret, seeing as it involved our taking lessons from Mr. Holmes on breaking and entering, and on opening safes. And tonight is the night we finally put our knowledge into practice!

We will all be making our way to the Bank of England to retrieve some letters deposited there by a dastardly blackmailer, at the request of one of Mr. Holmes’ clients. Yes, exciting, I know!

So, let me take you through our equipment one last time:

a jemmy;

lock-picks;

skeleton keys;

a drill;

a dark lantern;

a mask for everyone (whipped up by Dr. Watson—thank you, Doctor);

and a picture postcard of Pevensey Bay with a taunting message on the rear, to leave behind in the empty safe in order to add drama and a touch of colour. (Thank you, Mr. Holmes.)



Now, I really don’t recommend that you attempt to compose any poems during the burglary itself—we will need all our wits about us—but I’m sure it will give you plenty of inspiration for later composition.

Here as well is a quotation from the doctor’s story ‘The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton’:

With a glow of admiration I watched Holmes unrolling his case of instruments and choosing his tool with the calm, scientific accuracy of a surgeon who performs a delicate operation. I knew that the opening of safes was a particular hobby with him, and I understood the joy which it gave him to be confronted with this green and gold monster, the dragon which held in its maw the reputations of many fair ladies.


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 four-wheeler is at the door—our destiny awaits!

Time to leave for Threadneedle Street and the Bank of England...

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

[scfrankles]

Is everyone here? And in bloomers? Excellent. Rational dress is indeed called for in these circumstances.

Now, the casual observer may have noticed that there has been no activity post this month, and this observer may have chalked it up to Mrs. Frankles’ traditional January slump with its accompanying moping.

However, of course this month’s activity had to be kept entirely secret, seeing as it involved our taking lessons from Mr. Holmes on breaking and entering, and on opening safes. And tonight is the night we finally put our knowledge into practice!

We will all be making our way to the Bank of England to retrieve some letters deposited there by a dastardly blackmailer, at the request of one of Mr. Holmes’ clients. Yes, exciting, I know!

So, let me take you through our equipment one last time:

a jemmy;

lock-picks;

skeleton keys;

a drill;

a dark lantern;

a mask for everyone (whipped up by Dr. Watson—thank you, Doctor);

and a picture postcard of Pevensey Bay with a taunting message on the rear, to leave behind in the empty safe in order to add drama and a touch of colour. (Thank you, Mr. Holmes.)



Now, I really don’t recommend that you attempt to compose any poems during the burglary itself—we will need all our wits about us—but I’m sure it will give you plenty of inspiration for later composition.

Here as well is a quotation from the doctor’s story ‘The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton’:

With a glow of admiration I watched Holmes unrolling his case of instruments and choosing his tool with the calm, scientific accuracy of a surgeon who performs a delicate operation. I knew that the opening of safes was a particular hobby with him, and I understood the joy which it gave him to be confronted with this green and gold monster, the dragon which held in its maw the reputations of many fair ladies.


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 four-wheeler is at the door—our destiny awaits!

Time to leave for Threadneedle Street and the Bank of England...