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

[scfrankles]

Welcome everyone!

I am taking the opportunity this month to show off my Christmas present from Mr. Holmes, a copper and brass tea caddy that has been produced by the Newton School of Metal Workers. The Newton School is part of the Home Arts and Industries Association, which itself is part of the Arts and Crafts Movement.

It’s a beautiful piece and I am deeply grateful to Mr. Holmes for his kind and thoughtful gift. Though if he thinks this means I am going to ignore the significant charring to the table in his living room he has another think coming.

But moving on! I have here a brochure which shows you several more of the gorgeous objects produced by the Newton School and I hope that something there might inspire you.


And as further inspiration, here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s work, “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches”:

We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been standing smiling on the door-step.



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, each artist to their craft!

Comments

[smallhobbit]

I found a set of bellows
All made of copper and wood
I placed them by the fire
And truly they did look good

The design featured a branch
On which a little bird stood
They got the fire going a treat
Which is just what bellows should

And when an intruder chanced to come
I acted as I'm sure you would
And struck him hard as he came in
With my bellows just because I could

[scfrankles]

Well played, madam, well played ^____^

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much :)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I have to echo the applause!

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much!

[debriswoman]

Excellent:-)

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

this handsome tea caddy, copper and brass
this most riveted and riveting find
this piece, well-constructed and well-designed
for tea traveling luxury first class
its lid so snug no breath of air shall pass
slight planishing without, yet lined
within with tin, its cavity enshrined
this gift, let’s brew a cup—alas!

its safe-like bosom holds no Ceylon blend,
in place of tea a coiled asp set to strike,
a curse released from elegant coffer,
a trojan gift, means to a bloody end,
the agony of leaves a double spike
of venom, beware the cup and saucer!

[debriswoman]

This is so well put together:-)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you very much!!

[smallhobbit]

The utter infamy of using a tea caddy for such a role. I was completely taken in and surprised.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I was thinking of the speckled band in the safe! But yes a nasty surprise!

[scfrankles]

I'm particularly taken with the line: this most riveted and riveting find. Echoing debriswoman - the poem is as well-constructed as the tea caddy ^__^

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Aw, thank you! I liked that part, too. I enjoyed the surprise twist!!