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

[scfrankles]

Welcome, everyone!

Now, during these little get-togethers, our little circle sometimes contemplates the unusual and novel, but there is room for the mundane as well. And Mrs. Frankles has informed me she has no idea how a detachable collar works, so this seemed like the perfect subject for this month’s gathering. I have asked my cousin’s son Horace to come along and give us a short talk and demonstration and—

Yes, Mrs. Frankles? Well, yes. Of course there’s going to be an actual demonstration. Mrs. Frankles, you are a grown woman. I really think you can cope with seeing a man in his shirtsleeves and with his collar remove—

Oh, no.

Right, can someone put Mrs. Frankles into the recovery position? Do I need to fetch the smelling salts…? Ah, wonderful, you’re back with us, Mrs. Frankles. Mrs. Small-Hobbit, would you be a dear and take Mrs. Frankles to my room so she can lie down with a damp flannel on her forehead?

(It’s probably for the best. I think Horace is going to be mentioning a “stud puller” later on and I fear Mrs. Frankles might be able to briefly overcome her natural feminine modesty to make some risqué joke.)

So, begin whenever you’re ready, Horace!


How to Wear Detachable Collars! (+ Cuffs & Bibs!)


Thank you so much, dear. Do remember me to your parents!


Hopefully this will give you some ideas for your poems. And as extra inspiration, here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s work, “A Study In Scarlet”:


By a man's finger nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boot, by his trouser knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt cuffs—by each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed.



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 while you begin on your poems, I will write up my notes on the talk for the benefit of Mrs. Frankles. Wouldn’t want her getting “shirty”! (Oh great heavens, I have spent far too long in the company of Mrs. Frankles...)

Comments

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

You are feeling very cheeky! But I love it, especially the final pun.

[scfrankles]

Thank you ^__^

[smallhobbit]

There's a problem with his collar
Which is making Mr Holmes holler
And do an interesting dance by his bed
His shirt's not bewitched
The collar stud hole has been stitched
On account of something he said

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Very nice and image-provoking!

[smallhobbit]

Thank you :)

[scfrankles]

Most amusing ^_____^

[smallhobbit]

Thank you :)

Quatern

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

‘revolver in a collar drawer,
the weapon used,’ inspector said,
and Mrs. Butte of daily chore
sat mute before the Colonel, dead.

‘but all once-upon soldiers keep
revolver in a collar drawer;
it’s not a cunning gap to leap,’
the sleuth rebuked. ‘it’s village lore.’

‘a neighbor with a grudge, or four,
could have slipped in, easily found
revolver in a collar drawer,
and got revenge’s fleshy pound’

while inspector considered this,
the sleuth’s companion’s brow did score
as he made a plan to move his
revolver in a collar drawer.

Re: Quatern

[smallhobbit]

I do like Watson's plan to move his revolver. Excellent poem!

Re: Quatern

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! Yes, Mrs. Butte is from A Murder is Announced. Colonel Easterbrook keeps his revolver in the collar drawer. I imagined Watson was of a similar type.