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

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As we are currently experiencing traditional British summer weather—rain and overcast skies—I thought this month we would stay cosily inside, and I could show off my recent purchase. Yes, thanks to Mr. Holmes’s most recent and generous rent increase, I have bought myself a digital watch!

If you’d all like to— MRS. FRANKLES!

Mrs. Frankles, did you just spit elderflower cordial all over my soft furnishings?

Yes, well, I can understand your being impressed, but I don’t quite comprehend the level of your surprise…

Anachronistic? I don’t really see what you’re driving at, dear. Digital clocks and watches have not been in production for that long. You could call them bang up-to-date even. I must admit I find them rather fascinating—the concept of using clockwork to show individual digits through windows on a dial, instead of hands moving around a clock face.

What, Mrs. Frankles? Yes, clockwork. Well, what did you think I meant? Mrs. Frankles…?

(I don’t know.) Anyway, perhaps you’d all like to come forward and examine my new timepiece—carefully, please!—and I hope it will inspire you all creatively.


And as added inspiration here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s story, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”:


Far away we could hear the deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for whatever might befall.



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 now, let us take some time to compose!