Poetry fest

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

minutia_r is hosting a poetry prompt fest (click banner above). I have written 3 poems today! Two were Sherlock Holmes and one fill for the prompt fest.


-a quatern for holmes_minor poetry page

‘revolver in a collar drawer,
the weapon used,’ inspector said,
and Mrs. Butte of daily chore
sat mute before the Colonel, dead.

‘but all once-upon soldiers keep
revolver in a collar drawer;
it’s not a cunning gap to leap,’
the sleuth rebuked. ‘it’s village lore.’

‘a neighbor with a grudge, or four,
could have slipped in, easily found
revolver in a collar drawer,
and got revenge’s fleshy pound’

while inspector considered this,
the sleuth’s companion’s brow did score
as he made a plan to move his
revolver in a collar drawer.


-an English sonnet for today's Watson's Woes July prompt

on leaving behind village streets and signs
for Sussex countryside and rural charms,
near the southern slope of the downs, on lines
of sleepy wooded roads by tumbling farms

lost wanderers are liable to report
the sight of figures in the distant mist
a pair of riders on horseback purport
to roam and on their right of way insist

round there, another pair are often spied
in search of footprints and cigarette ash
ill-defined, modern provenance belied
by deerstalker, lens, revolver drawn, moustache

on that rustic path, one feels London soot,
hears a cab’s clop and knows the game’s afoot!

-and an original senryu for the prompt fest

summer nocturne played
as the snow falls is a ghost
haunted and haunting

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[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Hello, old friend! I hope you're doing ok. Thank you very much!!

[autumnia]

Hello! I know I've been pretty scarce around here for a long time now -- work has been absolutely mad and there's too much other stuff going on. But I am doing well, all things considered. Thank you for asking!

I hope you're doing well too! :-)