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

[scfrankles]

Welcome again, everyone!

One of the advantages of having Mr. Holmes as a tenant is that his generous rent has allowed me in recent years to employ a dressmaker. However now Mrs. Scott is retiring and moving to be with her married daughter in Kent. And we are living in more straitened times, so to keep my accounts in order I thought it was time for me to refresh my skills and begin making my own garments again.

And I have invited Miss Bernadette Banner along to help me in this by showing us all how to make a bang up-to-date waistcoat!



Hopefully one kind of creating will then lead you to another. As further inspiration for your poems, here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s work, “A Case of Identity”:


"The double line a little above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the broadest part, as this was."



Here as always is the list of poetry forms: [Note from Mrs. Frankles: Apologies for any broken links. I’m hoping to go through them before next month’s poetry page. I've now gone through all the links and updated them as necessary!]

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, Miss Banner, please take it away!