Admin Post: The Poetry Page: Social Distancing with Mrs. Hudson

[scfrankles]

We might still be temporarily marooned here on the Isle of Wight at Osborne House but at least the quarantine restrictions have lifted a little. And so today we will be taking the ‘bus to Ryde and having a picnic on the beach!

Mrs. Small-Hobbit has been out to purchase a few essentials. Bread. Cheese. Cakes. A… case of red wine... And Mrs. Frankles has assisted me in putting together a splendid hamper of comestibles.

If everyone could put their face masks into place? Then we can set off to the stop. And while waiting for the ‘bus, perhaps everyone could consider this quotation as inspiration for your poems. It’s from Doctor Watson’s story “The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton”:


“Excellent. And a mask?” “I can make a couple out of black silk.” “I can see that you have a strong natural turn for this sort of thing. Very good; do you make the masks…” With our black silk face-coverings, which turned us into two of the most truculent figures in London, we stole up to the silent, gloomy house.


Ah, Doctor Watson! Full of the most unexpected of skills, bless him.



Here as well is the usual 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 here we go. Off to Ryde Sands!

Fic: Monday's Toast: Gen

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Title: Monday's Toast
Rating: Gen
Length: 500
Notes: for the monthly prompt: vessel. A continuation of Sunday's toast. Using the British Royal Navy's toast of the day as additional prompt. POV Mrs. Hudson.
Summary: Mrs. Hudson contemplates her decision to send a message to Mister Holmes about Doctor Watson's illness.

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