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June 30, 2012 10:00 pm  #1


Poetry: limericks, odes and the like

As requested, here is a thread for Sherlock  related poetry (we also have an acrostic poem thread). Please feel free to post your poetry here; other items of clothing ARE available.

Here's mine again:

An Ode to the Purple Shirt of Sex

Oh purple shirt! Oh wondrous shirt!
So dark and deep and glowering.
You sit so tight upon his form.
He must have worn you showering.


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Don't make people into heroes John. Heroes don't exist and if they did I wouldn't be one of them.
 

June 30, 2012 10:02 pm  #2


Re: Poetry: limericks, odes and the like

Davina, darling, you've made 2!!


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I was wondering if you'd like to have coffee...
Hmm. I really don't know. Oh, I'm sorry, did I say 'know'? I meant 'care'. I don't really care. 
Douglas Richardson, Cremona
 

June 30, 2012 10:05 pm  #3


Re: Poetry: limericks, odes and the like

Now veecee and hubby can post theirs here too, if they want. Have a go at writing one Molly. It's fun!


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Don't make people into heroes John. Heroes don't exist and if they did I wouldn't be one of them.
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June 30, 2012 10:05 pm  #4


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No, I mean 2 threads!


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I was wondering if you'd like to have coffee...
Hmm. I really don't know. Oh, I'm sorry, did I say 'know'? I meant 'care'. I don't really care. 
Douglas Richardson, Cremona
 

June 30, 2012 10:08 pm  #5


Re: Poetry: limericks, odes and the like

God knows how that happened? I swear I think this I-pad is possessed or something!


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Don't make people into heroes John. Heroes don't exist and if they did I wouldn't be one of them.
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June 30, 2012 10:12 pm  #6


Re: Poetry: limericks, odes and the like

OK, as you requested: 1 very bad poem from moi!

The flirty shirt, the dirty shirt,
The shirt that makes him hot,
The taut shirt, the naughty shirt,
The shirt of …


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I was wondering if you'd like to have coffee...
Hmm. I really don't know. Oh, I'm sorry, did I say 'know'? I meant 'care'. I don't really care. 
Douglas Richardson, Cremona
 

June 30, 2012 10:14 pm  #7


Re: Poetry: limericks, odes and the like

That's not a bad poem at all. It has a good rhythm to it. Are we supposed to fill in the last bit for ourselves?


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Don't make people into heroes John. Heroes don't exist and if they did I wouldn't be one of them.
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June 30, 2012 10:17 pm  #8


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It's actually . . .
(That's what we say at school when we're pretending to be good and not say S.E.X.)
Oh, and it makes it rhyme.

Last edited by Molly Hooper (June 30, 2012 10:26 pm)


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I was wondering if you'd like to have coffee...
Hmm. I really don't know. Oh, I'm sorry, did I say 'know'? I meant 'care'. I don't really care. 
Douglas Richardson, Cremona
 

June 30, 2012 10:25 pm  #9


Re: Poetry: limericks, odes and the like

Davina wrote:

As requested, here is a thread for Sherlock  related poetry (we also have an acrostic poem thread). Please feel free to post your poetry here; other items of clothing ARE available.

Here's mine again:

An Ode to the Purple Shirt of Sex

Oh purple shirt! Oh wondrous shirt!
So dark and deep and glowering.
You sit so tight upon his form.
He must have worn you showering.

Oh my that is precious! 


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Disguise is always a self portrait
 

June 30, 2012 11:52 pm  #10


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This is a nice poem by a prominent Sherlockian named Vincent Starrett.  The poem is written about the vintage gas-light Holmes but it captures nicely the friendship of the two and that timeless place called  221B Baker Street. There's a yearning in this poem to escape to this wonderful place of the imagination as the world is torn apart by war and horror.

Here dwell together still two men of note
Who never lived and so can never die:
How very near they seem, yet how remote
That age before the world went all awry.
But still the game's afoot for those with ears
Attuned to catch the distant view-halloo:
England is England yet, for all our fears—
Only those things the heart believes are true.

A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane
As night descends upon this fabled street:
A lonely hansom splashes through the rain,
The ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet.
Here, though the world explode, these two survive,
And it is always eighteen ninety-five.


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And I said "dangerous" and here you are.

You. It's always you. John Watson, you keep me right.

 

July 1, 2012 1:25 am  #11


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Thank you for the invitation, Davina. Here they are copied from the other thread:

My husband enjoys Sherlock, but is not obsessed -- and certainly not with the purple shirt. However, he cannot resist a rhyme challenge:

A consulting detective from London
Was a sight to give even a nun fun
In his purple shirt
He had no need to flirt
Oh my, if that shirt should come undone!

And here's my own rhyme-cheater contribution

That purple shirt fits him so nicely
I find I must look at him twice-ly
When the world starts to BORE
I'll look just once more
And thus I'll enjoy myself thrice-ly.

Also, enjoying everone else's creativity, and the lovely Starrett poem again.

 

July 1, 2012 2:19 am  #12


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OK here's mine:



Afghanistan and all I’d meet
Was naught compared to Baker Street
The limo rides to dark garages
All those post mortem massages
Strapped to talking high explosives
Tipping beakers with corrosives
Phantom hounds from LSD
Made a better man of me

Who was this man, this boyish imp?
Who quickly made me lose my gimp?
The bullet holes and all the warring
Hide the children when it’s BOR-ing
I watched him dance with eyes a smilin’
When the corpses were a pilin’
He put me in the shape I’m in
With moods like nitroglycerine

But now I sit in therapy
Reduced to what I used to be
I watched him jump to full disgrace
But that will never be my place
My blog will do the best it can
Defending honor of the man
The public said he was my lover
I only know there was no other


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July 1, 2012 3:25 am  #13


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I  LOVE  this davina!!   

Love all the poems here.   I'll enjoy making up one of my own. 

Molly--  here's a good way to finish your poem---

The shirt  that Sherlock Bought.

Last edited by sherlockskitty (July 1, 2012 3:26 am)


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July 1, 2012 7:42 am  #14


Re: Poetry: limericks, odes and the like

Absolutely love your poem SP.
It tells John's story perfectly.


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Don't make people into heroes John. Heroes don't exist and if they did I wouldn't be one of them.
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July 1, 2012 10:10 am  #15


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Applause to you all. SP, this was really beautiful, wish I could do one like this myself  .

So far I can only contribute my modest limerick inspired by Veecee:

The voice of the man was seductive
His manner of thinking deductive,
So who can he be
Is what I‘m asking me
Could he be Goodness me a detective?


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"To fake the death of one sibling may be regarded as a misfortune; to fake the death of both looks like carelessness." Oscar Wilde about Mycroft Holmes

"It is what it is says love." (Erich Fried)

“Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I’m also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.” (Benedict Cumberbatch)



 
 

July 1, 2012 12:13 pm  #16


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Compared to the other great submissions above, here is my "lame" contribution:

There once was a man with a cane
Who encountered a man with a brain
The smart one, being logical
Said, "It's all psychological."
Now they're both on the hunt for the game.


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And I said "dangerous" and here you are.

You. It's always you. John Watson, you keep me right.

 

July 1, 2012 12:28 pm  #17


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That's not 'lame' although John is at the start! It made me smile...a lot!


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Don't make people into heroes John. Heroes don't exist and if they did I wouldn't be one of them.
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July 1, 2012 2:34 pm  #18


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SusiGo wrote:

Applause to you all. SP, this was really beautiful, wish I could do one like this myself  .

So far I can only contribute my modest limerick inspired by Veecee:

The voice of the man was seductive
His manner of thinking deductive,
So who can he be
Is what I‘m asking me
Could he be Goodness me a detective?

Thank you for the nod, but you deserve all the credit.

 

July 1, 2012 2:36 pm  #19


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KeepersPrice wrote:

Compared to the other great submissions above, here is my "lame" contribution:

There once was a man with a cane
Who encountered a man with a brain
The smart one, being logical
Said, "It's all psychological."
Now they're both on the hunt for the game.

Cute!

 

July 1, 2012 3:31 pm  #20


Re: Poetry: limericks, odes and the like

KeepersPrice wrote:

Compared to the other great submissions above, here is my "lame" contribution:

There once was a man with a cane
Who encountered a man with a brain
The smart one, being logical
Said, "It's all psychological."
Now they're both on the hunt for the game.

Not lame at all, KP, more of a racing car  .


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"To fake the death of one sibling may be regarded as a misfortune; to fake the death of both looks like carelessness." Oscar Wilde about Mycroft Holmes

"It is what it is says love." (Erich Fried)

“Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I’m also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.” (Benedict Cumberbatch)



 
 

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