Admin Post: The Poetry Page: On The Bummel with Mrs. Hudson

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Here we are in a new year! It’s a cold January and parts of the Thames have frozen over, and so we are going to take advantage of this and go ice-skating!

We have in fact been invited by the gentlemen of Scotland Yard to join them in a neighbourly get-together on the ice—organised in order to increase public confidence in our hardworking police force. (Incidentally, I have checked with Mr. Holmes this is definitely all there is to it. Some of you may recall that the last time we were invited to join the gentlemen of Scotland Yard at a ‘get-together’, it was because Mrs. Small-Hobbit had somehow ended up on a list of suspected cat-burglars.)

I have managed to hire skates for everyone, and so if you’d like to find your correct size…? Excellent! Let us make our way down to the bus stop then. Hopefully being on the ice will exercise our minds as well as our bodies but as an added prompt for our poems, here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s story ‘The Beryl Coronet’:


Several times during our homeward journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in despair.


Here are a few suggestions for 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 here is our bus!

As always, all poems can be left as comments on my page!