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

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Ah, Mrs. Frankles, you’ve managed to make it just in time!

And so for February, let us go on a mini-bummel! Mrs. Frankles previously has informed me that her favourite film is "Carry On Cleo" and that is why—

Actually, Mrs. Frankles, I don’t think I’ve seen that one. What’s it like? Oh, it’s a comedy. With puns. No, dear! I don’t think you need to go into detail! Knowing your particular tastes, I’m sure it’s hilarious.

Yes…

Anyway, having been inspired by Mrs. Frankles’ favourite film, I thought we might go and visit Cleopatra’s Needle on the Victoria Embankment. A real ancient Egyptian obelisk, with its twin standing in New York’s Central Park, I believe.


And as added inspiration for your poetry, here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s work, “The Adventure of the Devil's Foot”:

It was a country of rolling moors, lonely and dun-colored, with an occasional church tower to mark the site of some old-world village. In every direction upon these moors there were traces of some vanished race which had passed utterly away, and left as its sole record strange monuments of stone…



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, let us make our way to the obelisk!