holmes_minor | The Poetry Page: Social Distancing with Mrs. Hudson

Welcome, everyone! And thank you for joining me in my back garden.

As the weather becomes warmer and more clement, now I feel is the time for me to start clearing up my garden a little. It is of course rather small, with a very modest area of grass, but nevertheless I thought it might be interesting to try out a lawn mower. I have obtained one on approval—this model being recommended for ladies by the actress Marie Studholme. (Though unlike Miss Studholme, I will not be popping on my finest hat and frock to deal with the mowing…)

There are plenty of refreshments, so I hope the rest of you might also like to take a turn and between us we will soon get the place into perfect shape! And while our bodies are occupied with labour, hopefully our minds can be busy with producing poetry.

As extra inspiration, here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s work, “A Study In Scarlet”:

I enumerated in my own mind all the various points upon which he had shown me that he was exceptionally well-informed. I even took a pencil and jotted them down. I could not help smiling at the document when I had completed it. It ran in this way—

Knowledge of Literature.—Nil.
Philosophy.—Nil.
Astronomy.—Nil.
Politics.—Feeble.
Botany.—Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening.

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, let us begin!

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From:

smallhobbit

There's a corner of the garden which is most inauspicious
With the plants which are there looking ever so suspicious
For Mr Holmes is growing
Seeds he shouldn't be sowing
And the outcome really isn't too propitious