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holmes_minorWelcome once again!
This month we will only be going walking distance—and perhaps appropriately enough this will be in order to go and look at shoes.
Mrs. Turner’s uncle’s neighbour’s son (I think I have that right) works for The London Shoe Company, specifically being in charge of the warehouse in New Bond Street. Normally the shoes are sold exclusively by mail order but Mr. Eslington (Mrs. Turner’s uncle’s neighbour’s son) has arranged for us take a tour of the warehouse, culminating in the opportunity to buy a pair of shoes each at trade price! Yes, I know—exciting!
Before we set off, perhaps you might like to take a look at these advertisements to give you some idea of their stock.
Ladies’ Boots
Ladies’ Shoes
Ladies’ & Gentlemen’s Shoes, including Cycling Shoes
I am hoping that our little tour might inspire you with regards to your poems. And I would also like to offer a quotation from Dr. Watson’s ‘A Case of Identity’ to additionally assist your artistic endeavours:
“I can never bring you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.”
Here are the usual 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
Off we go—put your best foot forward!
This month we will only be going walking distance—and perhaps appropriately enough this will be in order to go and look at shoes.
Mrs. Turner’s uncle’s neighbour’s son (I think I have that right) works for The London Shoe Company, specifically being in charge of the warehouse in New Bond Street. Normally the shoes are sold exclusively by mail order but Mr. Eslington (Mrs. Turner’s uncle’s neighbour’s son) has arranged for us take a tour of the warehouse, culminating in the opportunity to buy a pair of shoes each at trade price! Yes, I know—exciting!
Before we set off, perhaps you might like to take a look at these advertisements to give you some idea of their stock.
Ladies’ Boots
Ladies’ Shoes
Ladies’ & Gentlemen’s Shoes, including Cycling Shoes
I am hoping that our little tour might inspire you with regards to your poems. And I would also like to offer a quotation from Dr. Watson’s ‘A Case of Identity’ to additionally assist your artistic endeavours:
“I can never bring you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.”
Here are the usual 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
Off we go—put your best foot forward!
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Dilemma
Date: 2018-05-21 05:38 pm (UTC)There was plenty: grey and brown and black
We asked each other, ‘Say,
Shall I have the brown or black or grey?’
‘Which will go best with my new gown,
The black or grey or brown?
Re: Dilemma
Date: 2018-05-22 08:07 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Dilemma
Date: 2018-05-23 03:25 am (UTC)Re: Dilemma
Date: 2018-05-23 03:16 pm (UTC)Re: Dilemma
Date: 2018-05-23 03:24 pm (UTC)Happiness
Date: 2018-05-21 05:47 pm (UTC)Made of quite excellent leather
Guaranteed to last for years
And resist all inclement weather
We each selected the pair we liked
With a smart or a pointed toe
And having chosen we went to pay
With a sense of internal glow
For the price we were paying was rather less
Than we’d have to pay in the shops
Which meant we didn’t have to stint ourselves
But could have the pair which were tops
Re: Happiness
Date: 2018-05-22 08:10 pm (UTC)Very nice ^__^
RE: Re: Happiness
Date: 2018-05-23 03:26 am (UTC)Re: Happiness
Date: 2018-05-23 03:17 pm (UTC)Re: Happiness
Date: 2018-05-23 03:24 pm (UTC)221b verselet
Date: 2018-05-25 07:32 am (UTC)Old lacer
got
boot!
Re: 221b verselet
Date: 2018-05-25 07:49 am (UTC)Re: 221b verselet
Date: 2018-05-25 08:49 am (UTC)Re: 221b verselet
Date: 2018-05-25 07:07 pm (UTC)Re: 221b verselet
Date: 2018-05-25 07:23 pm (UTC)Terza rima, minicase poem, a bit horrid, sorry
Date: 2018-05-26 01:12 pm (UTC)How great, indeed, the issue that hangs from a mere lace,
There, son and heir, on whom so many, much depended!
You study noose while I, the harvested form and face.
Our journeys end in no lover’s meeting, but one thought:
a strap to bind soul to God is of uncommon place.
But where, oh, where could such Herculean cord be bought?
Our quest’s arrested by suggestiveness of thumb-nails.
“Yes, Watson, these sketches show it was carefully wrought.”
We discover the smith and sample his cat o’ tails,
a test which reminds me of the importance of sleeves!
There’s a sleuth’s cry of triumph, then a murderer’s wails.
“How one’s words, dear Holmes, can prove truer than one believes.”
“I, too, confess surprise at proverb bearing such fruit,
but how real the drama, dear Watson, inspired by leaves.
One sees the tree, the limbs, the shade, supposes the root.
How telling the sleeve, the nail, and, yes, the lace of boot.”
RE: Terza rima, minicase poem, a bit horrid, sorry
Date: 2018-05-26 06:42 pm (UTC)Re: Terza rima, minicase poem, a bit horrid, sorry
Date: 2018-05-26 07:05 pm (UTC)Re: Terza rima, minicase poem, a bit horrid, sorry
Date: 2018-05-27 03:42 pm (UTC)Re: Terza rima, minicase poem, a bit horrid, sorry
Date: 2018-05-27 04:52 pm (UTC)Sir Henry Baskerville (butterfly cinquain)
Date: 2018-05-30 06:25 pm (UTC)Just bought. Unworn.
Vanished from hotel room.
It was nothing to sniff about.
Brown boot.
Snatched after black boot reappears.
Well-worn. Well-loved. Perhaps
better to go
unshod.
Re: Sir Henry Baskerville (butterfly cinquain)
Date: 2018-05-30 06:34 pm (UTC)And a very clever poem, making good use of Sir Henry's boots. Although maybe in his case it might have been better not to have gone at all.
Re: Sir Henry Baskerville (butterfly cinquain)
Date: 2018-05-31 08:46 am (UTC)Re: Sir Henry Baskerville (butterfly cinquain)
Date: 2018-06-01 06:12 pm (UTC)Re: Sir Henry Baskerville (butterfly cinquain)
Date: 2018-06-01 06:43 pm (UTC)