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holmes_minorWelcome, everyone, to the Christmas edition of the poetry page!
I hope everyone is wrapped up warmly because we are about to catch the bus to Leadenhall Market, where we will be doing some carol singing in order to raise money for the impoverished children of the city. I believe Mr. Holmes will be meeting us there with his violin and will be supplying the music for carols old and new!
He will also be demonstrating his musical skills by improvising some tunes right there on the spot. And I thought it might be fun if we followed his example by coming up with our own lyrics for carols—to a familiar tune or not. The carols can be religious or secular, humorous or sombre, traditional or newfangled. Whatever takes your fancy.
To assist you in your ideas, here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s story ‘A Study in Scarlet’, which was first published in Beeton's Christmas Annual:
Leaning back in the cab, this amateur blood-hound carolled away like a lark while I meditated upon the many-sidedness of the human mind.
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Carols can take many forms, naturally. 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
And here is the bus!
Remember—all completed carols can be left as comments on my page!
I hope everyone is wrapped up warmly because we are about to catch the bus to Leadenhall Market, where we will be doing some carol singing in order to raise money for the impoverished children of the city. I believe Mr. Holmes will be meeting us there with his violin and will be supplying the music for carols old and new!
He will also be demonstrating his musical skills by improvising some tunes right there on the spot. And I thought it might be fun if we followed his example by coming up with our own lyrics for carols—to a familiar tune or not. The carols can be religious or secular, humorous or sombre, traditional or newfangled. Whatever takes your fancy.
To assist you in your ideas, here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s story ‘A Study in Scarlet’, which was first published in Beeton's Christmas Annual:
Leaning back in the cab, this amateur blood-hound carolled away like a lark while I meditated upon the many-sidedness of the human mind.
Carols can take many forms, naturally. 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
And here is the bus!
Remember—all completed carols can be left as comments on my page!
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Date: 2017-12-20 01:25 pm (UTC)Holmes' violin did moan
He'd better change the tune soon
Or something will get thrown!
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Date: 2017-12-20 04:50 pm (UTC)Holmes found geese in Covent Market
Which since they sell fruit and veggies
Was a strange place to have hark it!
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Date: 2017-12-20 05:43 pm (UTC)Screeches around
I want to say
"Throw that away!"
(Screeech. Sawwww. Screeech. Saaawww.)
All people here
Eyes full of tears
Young and the old
Blood running cold
Strings squealing long
What is that song?
Horrible thing
Not carolling
All seem to fear
When forced to hear
Notes lifting hair
Filling the air
Painfully ring
We're trying to sing
Songs of good cheer -
Get out of here!
(Quiet, quiet, Mr. Holmes be quiet)
(Quiet, quiet, Mr. Holmes be quiet)
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Date: 2017-12-20 10:30 pm (UTC)Can someone pass the gin round
Ding, dong, my throat is much less dry
Another bottle's been downed
Glo-o-o-o-o-o(deep breathe)o-o-o-o-oria (and another)
Hosanna in excelsis
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Date: 2017-12-21 12:49 am (UTC)You're on a roll, madam ^__^ (And I must try and remember not to sing this in public ^^")
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Date: 2017-12-21 02:18 pm (UTC)Great pardon for y'dismay
The breaking glass, exploding gas 'twas seen on Christmas Day.
Was just a bit of science rogue, exper'ment gone astray.
Oh, oh--[that's all I got, sorry]
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Date: 2017-12-21 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-21 10:13 pm (UTC)The fire brigade quick came.
And unto certain cu-ur-tains
Brought rain to quench the flame.
It didn’t quench landlady’s wrath
And someone got the blame.
O-o hidings for overgro-own boy,
Overgrown boy.
O-o hidings for an overgrown boy!
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Date: 2017-12-21 10:21 pm (UTC)