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holmes_minorWelcome, everyone, to this month’s poetry page!
This time we will be witnessing a ladies’ cycling display by the Catford Cycling Club.
And yes, I think here come the first bicyclists now…
🚲 🚲 🚲 🚲 🚲
Well, that was most inspiring. I hope you will be excited to learn that I have hired several safety bicycles so that we too can have a little trip of our own today.
Now, you may recall that all the ladies we saw earlier were wearing the usual long skirts. But if I might be so bold: I think the ladies amongst us should try rational dress. Yes! I’m talking bloomers!
Oh.
Oh, dear.
Could someone put Mrs. Frankles into the recovery position, please? I keep forgetting what a delicate flower the poor woman is.
While we wait for Mrs. Frankles to regain consciousness, perhaps I could share with you a quotation from Dr. Watson’s story ‘The Priory School’:
"Well, well!" said Holmes, impatiently. "A good cyclist does not need a high road…”
I shall leave that with you as extra inspiration for your poems.
Ah! You’re back with us, Mrs. Frankles? Excellent. And so, donning whichever bicycling attire you feel most comfortable in, let us begin our little journey, composing as we go. As in clothing, as in poetry: you are free to use any form you like. Here are a few suggestions:
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
All completed poems can be left as comments on my page!
This time we will be witnessing a ladies’ cycling display by the Catford Cycling Club.
And yes, I think here come the first bicyclists now…
Well, that was most inspiring. I hope you will be excited to learn that I have hired several safety bicycles so that we too can have a little trip of our own today.
Now, you may recall that all the ladies we saw earlier were wearing the usual long skirts. But if I might be so bold: I think the ladies amongst us should try rational dress. Yes! I’m talking bloomers!
Oh.
Oh, dear.
Could someone put Mrs. Frankles into the recovery position, please? I keep forgetting what a delicate flower the poor woman is.
While we wait for Mrs. Frankles to regain consciousness, perhaps I could share with you a quotation from Dr. Watson’s story ‘The Priory School’:
"Well, well!" said Holmes, impatiently. "A good cyclist does not need a high road…”
I shall leave that with you as extra inspiration for your poems.
Ah! You’re back with us, Mrs. Frankles? Excellent. And so, donning whichever bicycling attire you feel most comfortable in, let us begin our little journey, composing as we go. As in clothing, as in poetry: you are free to use any form you like. Here are a few suggestions:
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
All completed poems can be left as comments on my page!
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The Regent's Park Cycling Song
Date: 2017-11-20 06:33 pm (UTC)Jolly cycling weather
Wheels go round and round
We’re all together
Trying not to hit the ground
On and on and on we’ll go
Till somebody learns how to brake
On and on and on we’ll go
How much longer can it take?
RE: The Regent's Park Cycling Song
Date: 2017-11-20 08:53 pm (UTC)Re: The Regent's Park Cycling Song
Date: 2017-11-20 08:57 pm (UTC)RE: The Regent's Park Cycling Song
Date: 2017-11-21 06:55 am (UTC)Re: The Regent's Park Cycling Song
Date: 2017-11-21 11:43 am (UTC)Re: The Regent's Park Cycling Song
Date: 2017-11-21 06:21 pm (UTC)A very amusing interpretation of the film clip, madam ^__^
Re: The Regent's Park Cycling Song
Date: 2017-11-21 06:35 pm (UTC)It did rather appeal.
Shadorma
Date: 2017-11-20 09:07 pm (UTC)Our fortunes rode on
Strength of men.
Now we are
Pedalling, moving forward
Under our own steam.
Re: Shadorma
Date: 2017-11-20 09:36 pm (UTC)Re: Shadorma
Date: 2017-11-20 09:50 pm (UTC)RE: Shadorma
Date: 2017-11-21 06:55 am (UTC)Says such a lot.
Re: Shadorma
Date: 2017-11-21 01:52 pm (UTC)Re: Shadorma
Date: 2017-11-21 06:27 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Shadorma
Date: 2017-11-21 11:27 pm (UTC)A good cyclist [from "HOLMES the Musical" playing on and off in the West End of my mind; Rating: T]
Date: 2017-11-22 08:22 pm (UTC)A good cyclist doesn’t need a high road
to reach his destination.
A good cyclist doesn’t need a clear day
a vane or weather station.
A good cyclist doesn’t need a flat plain
devoid of undulation.
A good cyclist doesn’t need a bold sign
and lines of demarcation.
WATSON: But the bicycle, Holmes?
HOLMES: He does not need
He will proceed
Upon spoked steed
‘Cross moor and weed!
A good cyclist doesn’t need a fair wind
for his acceleration.
A good cyclist doesn’t need a choice map
for his edification.
A good cyclist doesn’t need a full moon
for his illumination.
A good cyclist doesn’t need a stout boot
for his perambulation.
WATSON: But the bicycle, Holmes?
HOLMES:
He goes along
a-burst with song
legs firm, lungs strong
through fork and prong!
A good cyclist doesn’t need a straight path
or steady elevation.
A good cyclist doesn’t need an odd tree
to fix exact location.
A good cyclist doesn’t need a sharp grade
to foster wheel rotation.
A good cyclist doesn’t need a smooth lane
to go without vexation.
WATSON:
As far as it goes, you’re right, I suppose,
about metal bars, spokes, and rubber hose.
But a different story altogether when it’s cotton, wool, and leather.
Yes, Holmes, it’s not the same, at all, you see,
when the vehicle you’re riding is me!
Re: A good cyclist [from "HOLMES the Musical" playing on and off in the West End of my mind; Rating:
Date: 2017-11-22 08:32 pm (UTC)Yet another production which will go on and on.
Re: A good cyclist [from "HOLMES the Musical" playing on and off in the West End of my mind; Rating:
Date: 2017-11-22 08:39 pm (UTC)Re: A good cyclist [from "HOLMES the Musical" playing on and off in the West End of my mind; Rating:
Date: 2017-11-23 04:00 pm (UTC)But on a more serious note, I love your wonderful rhyming words: destination, station, undulation, demarcation, and so on. So well done.
Re: A good cyclist [from "HOLMES the Musical" playing on and off in the West End of my mind; Rating:
Date: 2017-11-23 04:22 pm (UTC)Thank you very much. It sounded like a song, although I don't know of an existing song that it closely resembles.
RE: A good cyclist [from "HOLMES the Musical" playing on and off in the West End of my mind; Rating:
Date: 2017-11-28 05:51 am (UTC)!!!
Re: A good cyclist [from "HOLMES the Musical" playing on and off in the West End of my mind; Rating:
Date: 2017-11-28 09:02 am (UTC)Re: A good cyclist [from
Date: 2017-11-28 12:52 pm (UTC)To the tune of 'Daisy, Daisy'
Date: 2017-11-23 09:58 pm (UTC)Give me your answer do
I’m not quite sure
Bloomers are meant for you.
So why are you wearing mine?
Your enthusiasms please confine.
To look the part may be an art
But you should never wear royal blue
Re: To the tune of 'Daisy, Daisy'
Date: 2017-11-24 03:09 am (UTC)Re: To the tune of 'Daisy, Daisy'
Date: 2017-11-24 09:40 am (UTC)Re: To the tune of 'Daisy, Daisy'
Date: 2017-11-24 10:04 pm (UTC)Actually, there must be a fic there. We often have Holmes getting dressed up in frocks for disguises - but yes, what about him dressing up as a woman in rational dress...?
RE: Re: To the tune of 'Daisy, Daisy'
Date: 2017-11-24 10:08 pm (UTC)Glad you enjoyed it :)
RE: To the tune of 'Daisy, Daisy'
Date: 2017-11-28 05:52 am (UTC)Re: To the tune of 'Daisy, Daisy'
Date: 2017-11-28 09:01 am (UTC)