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

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After quite a hiatus, it’s lovely to begin these little get-togethers again. And just in time for the Christmas festivities! I believe Mrs. Small-Hobbit has recently bought a circular knitting machine, and has kindly been busy making everyone who wants one a Christmas stocking for when Father Christmas passes by with the satsumas and silver sixpences! Well… that’s if Father Christmas does pass by. (Hopefully Mr. Holmes setting fire to the chimney last Christmas didn’t put me on the naughty list…)

And Mrs. Small-Hobbit has also kindly offered to give us a demonstration of just how she does make the stockings. I have to say, it’s a fascinating little machine and I’m keen to learn more. Oh, you might be having a crack at a handbag too, Mrs. Small-Hobbit? Excellent!


Hopefully this might lead to you feeling the urge to compose. To further encourage that urge, here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s work, “The Adventure of the Three Garridebs”:

“Well, well, I had no idea I was so obvious a Britisher. But business brought me over here some time ago, and so, as you say, my outfit is nearly all London. However, I guess your time is of value, and we did not meet to talk about the cut of my socks.”



Here as always 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, Mrs. Small-Hobbit, do please cast on, dear!