Poem: Moriarty vs. Holmes: Gen

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Title: Moriarty vs. Holmes [foil]
Length: 100
Rating: Gen
Form: Palindrome poem
For: the monthly prompt: foil

sorry end, this is
fall water
wits matching? minds matching? unlikely
the purportedly, the truly great
undeniably nears battle
fly to spider
you save inadequate foes who never suffer to cleave, own one’s demons
Holmes versus Moriarty, is it?
gnawing idleness
foolish adversary, trying so hard
work of art,
the perfect
foil
perfect the art of work
hard, so trying
adversary, foolish idleness, gnawing
it is Moriarty versus Holmes
demons, one’s own, cleave
to suffer, never who?
foes, inadequate, save you,
spider-to-fly battle nears
undeniably great, truly
the purportedly, the unlikely
matching minds
matching wits
waterfall
is this end?
sorry

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

[scfrankles]

Welcome, everyone!

As we are still trying to avoid exposure to the impressively transmissible Omicron variant, I thought you all might like to stay in this month and come up and look at my tinsel prints!

You’ve… never heard that particular line before? I’m not quite sure what you mean, Mrs. Frankles?

Yes…

Anyway, if you’ll all follow me up to the uppermost lumber room…!

Ah! There it is! Could you help me open the lid of this trunk, Mrs. Frankles? There we go. And Mrs. Small-Hobbit, if you could help us by lifting out the prints and displaying them on these boxes here…?

So here they are! My late mother’s collection of tinsel prints!


To quote Wikipedia:

[Tinsel prints] are popular prints, mainly British, produced in the early or mid-19th century, normally showing actors in their roles… These were sold in plain or hand-coloured and tinselled versions, and the plain versions were often tinselled at home. Tin-foil tinsel in different colours, mostly in pre-stamped shapes, was applied with glue. The theatrical prints cost one penny plain, and two coloured, with a standard size of about 12 by 10 inches.


I will just direct you to a few of my favourites to wet your appetites:

William Charles Macready as Rob Roy

Madame Vestris as Oberon

Edmund Kean as Macbeth


As added inspiration for your poetry, here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s work, “The Hound of the Baskervilles”:

Holmes cast a swift glance of triumph at me. “Oh, he mentioned his name, did he? That was imprudent. What was the name that he mentioned?”

“His name,” said the cabman, “was Mr. Sherlock Holmes.”

Never have I seen my friend more completely taken aback than by the cabman's reply. For an instant he sat in silent amazement. Then he burst into a hearty laugh.

“A touch, Watson—an undeniable touch!” said he. “I feel a foil as quick and supple as my own.”



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 so, please feel free to peruse the tinsel prints!