POEM STARTER
Write a poem that has a whimsical mood.
The word whimsical is defined as being playfully fanciful, especially in an appealing way. What kind of language would you use to portray this?
As My Whimsey Takes Me
Sherlock Holmes, Jane Marple, Hercule Poirot
And there’s Dupin by Edgar Allen Poe
These detectives make me grin, see
None more so than Lord Peter Wimsey
Marlowe, Spade, and the Continental Op
My heaven, library or bookshop
Yet no mysteries have I found sweeter
Than curling up with Sayers’ Lord Peter
Erudite, silly, damaged, yet urbane
That love unfurling with Harriet Vane
On a desert isle one book to read on
Anything with Lord Peter Death Bredon
Wimsey, icon of Mystery’s Golden Age
My joy measured page upon page
Puzzles realign a world askew
I love Inspector Rory Alleyn, too
