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

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Once again, here we are gathered together in the back garden of 221 Baker Street for the last of the fine weather, and I see a few regular little friends have joined us. Yes, the pigeons! Do feel free to take some of the supplied seeds to scatter for them.

Ah, what a lovely sight! Such a calming representation of peace and freedom…

And now that we are able to go to the library again, I have embraced the opportunity to take out a copy of The Illustrated Book of Pigeons by Robert Fulton. You will see it on the garden table there. I have inserted a few slips of paper so that you can immediately find some beautiful illustrations of various breeds. But do feel free to peruse the whole of the book, if you so desire. I am sure that there will be plenty of inspiration within.


And let me add here as well those classic lines from Doctor Watson’s story “The Adventure of Black Peter”:


”Let us walk in these beautiful woods, Watson, and give a few hours to the birds and the flowers.”



Here as usual is the 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 also, I believe Mrs. Frankles would like to share this recording of a sweet little Dutch song about pigeons from the late… 1960s? Oh, but surely that should be the 1860s? Mrs. Frankles? Mrs. Frankles…?

Yes…

Well, anyway. Here is Duifies, duifies!