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holmes_minorHere 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!
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!
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Complex Alliterisen
Date: 2018-01-20 07:20 pm (UTC)yours curtly cutting, mine churlish chutting.
Our skates scrape, skit, skirt, flit, flirt,
fillet fresh-eyed fish under-boots brute.
Silent sound, urge unfound
to tell truths knighted, nimble-nice
We weave, dodge on thimble-thin ice.
Re: Complex Alliterisen
Date: 2018-01-20 07:41 pm (UTC)Re: Complex Alliterisen
Date: 2018-01-20 07:50 pm (UTC)Re: Complex Alliterisen
Date: 2018-01-20 11:07 pm (UTC)D'you know, I particularly like 'thimble-thin ice'. There's a tension in the double meaning - thimbles are both tough, to protect a finger from a needle, but are also small and delicate and can easily be damaged. Actually, I suppose it's a triple meaning - both metaphorically and literally being on thin ice.
I also loved Our skates scrape, skit, skirt, flit, flirt,/ fillet fresh-eyed fish under-boots brute.
Re: Complex Alliterisen
Date: 2018-01-21 12:47 am (UTC)RE: Complex Alliterisen
Date: 2018-01-20 11:45 pm (UTC)Re: Complex Alliterisen
Date: 2018-01-21 12:32 am (UTC)Cat Burglary by Mrs Small-Hobbit
Date: 2018-01-20 08:08 pm (UTC)When a policeman spotted my knees
It was a pure misunderstanding
Since I’d only forgotten my keys
Re: Cat Burglary by Mrs Small-Hobbit
Date: 2018-01-20 08:53 pm (UTC)Re: Cat Burglary by Mrs Small-Hobbit
Date: 2018-01-20 09:31 pm (UTC)Cat Burglary by Mrs Small-Hobbit - the Saga Continues...
Date: 2018-01-20 11:12 pm (UTC)My energetic gymnastic labours
When at last it occurred to me
This house belonged to my neighbours.
Re: Cat Burglary by Mrs Small-Hobbit - the Saga Continues...
Date: 2018-01-21 12:33 am (UTC)Re: Cat Burglary by Mrs Small-Hobbit - the Saga Continues...
Date: 2018-01-21 01:40 pm (UTC)Since the backs of the houses are all much the same
The policeman, however, wasn’t convinced
Which is why I ended up with a slur on my name
Re: Cat Burglary by Mrs Small-Hobbit - the Saga Continues...
Date: 2018-01-21 04:21 pm (UTC)Re: Cat Burglary by Mrs Small-Hobbit - the Saga Continues...
Date: 2018-01-21 07:16 pm (UTC)Rhyming Alliterisen (Rating: Teen)
Date: 2018-01-21 04:49 pm (UTC)to cleave claws, handsome, clever
from ‘round-pond skating, skirting.
They toy, tease, ever flirting
‘bout timely topics, now’s news.
My pink point, would they peruse,
chance, charm, ere the sport grows cold.
Re: Rhyming Alliterisen (Rating: Teen)
Date: 2018-01-21 07:18 pm (UTC)Re: Rhyming Alliterisen (Rating: Teen)
Date: 2018-01-21 07:44 pm (UTC)And here we are
Date: 2018-01-21 07:26 pm (UTC)We make lots of policemen mates
Of course it would be very nice
If we had stayed upon our skates
Re: And here we are
Date: 2018-01-21 07:45 pm (UTC)Re: And here we are
Date: 2018-01-21 07:54 pm (UTC)Re: And here we are
Date: 2018-01-22 11:30 pm (UTC)Re: And here we are
Date: 2018-01-23 01:14 pm (UTC)