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

[scfrankles]

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!

Comments

acrostic poems: V is for voices and W is for winter (tyburn)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Vaulting
Over Christmas
Ice. Melting Yuletide snow.
Caroling, barreling, we go
Entertaining (mostly ourselves) with our
Singing

Woeful
Icy
Nicely
Toe-full
Ever frozen, icy and woeful
Ringing socks, a nicely wet toe-full

Re: acrostic poems: V is for voices and W is for winter (tyburn)

[scfrankles]

They're charming ^__^ I particularly like Caroling, barreling, we go, and that (mostly ourselves) makes me smile ^__^ And I love the wordplay for the Winter poem.

Re: acrostic poems: V is for voices and W is for winter (tyburn)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you very much!

Re: acrostic poems: V is for voices and W is for winter (tyburn)

[debriswoman]

Lovely :-)

Re: acrostic poems: V is for voices and W is for winter (tyburn)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you!

X is for xenial

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Xenial landlady of chatelain and locks
Extends to all who seek refuge
Not only a fire and a cup whose warmth lingers
Included in her hospitality and kindness
A fruit of clever machine and nimble fingers
Lovely, woolly, swiftly knitted socks

Re: X is for xenial

[scfrankles]

I'm very taken with those first and last lines - I love the sound and rhythm of them ^__^ Must admit I had to look up "xenial" - it wasn't a word I'd heard before. It has a very pleasing shape and sound.

Re: X is for xenial

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! I only know it because I got it as a prompt once but handy if you need an x word.

Re: X is for xenial

[debriswoman]

I do like the rhythm and rhyme :-)

Re: X is for xenial

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you!!

[debriswoman]

*Waves happily at Mrs H (you’re back!!) and heads off to sharpen the rhyming dictionary…*

[scfrankles]

Up and at 'em, Mrs. P! Looking forward to the results!

[smallhobbit]

There was gin in my stocking, Mrs H, Mrs H, Mrs H
There was gin in my stocking, Mrs H
There was gin

And I drank it, Mrs H, Mrs H, Mrs H,
And I drank it, Mrs H
I drank it

But I'm back now, Mrs H, Mrs H, Mrs H
But I'm back now, Mrs H
I'm back

But not sober, Mrs H, Mrs H, Mrs H
But not sober, Mrs H
Not sober

'Cos there was rum in my stocking, Mrs H, Mrs H, Mrs H
There was rum in my stocking
And I drank that too!

[scfrankles]

Oh, Mrs. Small-Hobbit. I have so missed you and your, um, "poems". An interesting twist there.

But now, let's get you lying down, and I'll go and put some coffee on.

[smallhobbit]

Thank you Mrs H, I'm delighted you are back!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I can definitely see all the lads (and landladies) down at the public house singing this on December 24!

[smallhobbit]

It's very popular then!