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

[scfrankles]

Although the nights are getting shorter, Mr. Holmes has suggested to me that we might like to try a little star-gazing and has lent me his telescope for this very purpose. I would apparently be joining some much esteemed company in taking up this interest—I have found this small leaflet on contemporary lady astronomers and perhaps you would like to take a look.

Also here are some reproductions of astronomical illustrations by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, to whet the appetite!


To inspire you in perhaps another direction, here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s story, “The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans”:


”But that Mycroft should break out in this erratic fashion! A planet might as well leave its orbit.”



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


Now, who would like to take the first go with the telescope? Mrs. Small-Hobbit? Or La Poetisa Okapi perhaps? There’s enough space for everyone! (Yes… Perhaps I will leave the jokes to you, Mrs. Frankles.)