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holmes_minorWelcome, 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!
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!
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Date: 2022-01-23 06:39 pm (UTC)It's not something you often hear
Just a matter of happy toiling
Not something you need to fear
Adding some tinsel to a print
Along with a bit of leather
Making the whole thing glint
And finishing off with a feather
For I enjoy the evening I've planned
After dealing with one thing and another
With foil tinsel in one hand
And a glass of gin in the other
no subject
Date: 2022-01-25 03:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-25 03:56 pm (UTC)a tinsel print (Burns stanza as tonight is Burns night. referencing the Baskerville quote)
Date: 2022-01-25 03:43 pm (UTC)not watercolour, mezzotint
oh, what I wouldn’t give to squint
at such a square!
I’d gladly spare two pennies flint
for foil with flair
a tinsel print, a rendering
of actor dressed in part, a thing
that would, I feel, most surely bring
a certain glee
a clever foiled imagining
of him as me!
a tinsel print for frame not shelf
I’ll glue the bright-hued foil myself
not Oberon or Rob Roy’s elf
but well-known sleuth
a villain’s take on humble self
a touch, forsooth!
a tinsel print, a badge of fame
I want, of him who plays this game
of me, in tinny-coloured name
and nattery,
for artifice is the much same
as flattery
Re: a tinsel print (Burns stanza as tonight is Burns night. referencing the Baskerville quote)
Date: 2022-01-25 03:58 pm (UTC)Re: a tinsel print (Burns stanza as tonight is Burns night. referencing the Baskerville quote)
Date: 2022-01-25 05:30 pm (UTC)