Sherlock Holmes and Watson headed out to forests deep,
Thinking
they could get away and catch up on some sleep,
They’d
enjoyed the forest stillness and expected lack of crime,
And
sitting by the fire just delighting in downtime.
But finally,
they grew sleepy as they stared up at the trees,
And
climbed into their tent so they could catch up on some zzzzz’s,
The
rustlings of the forest soon lulled both of them to doze,
And ‘In
the Arms of Morpheus’, were finding some repose.
Then
sometime after midnight, Holmes shook Watson wide-awake,
His friend yawned and rubbed his eyes and gave his head a shake.
“Tell me, John, what you deduce by gazing at the stars?
“I know
that there are many, but I’m thinking now of ours.”
“I deduce just by the number that the universe is
vast,
“Containing billions of these stars—quite bright
when they’re amassed,
“I’m sure these stars have planets, and deduce, statistically,
“Intelligent life exists as well, on one or two
or three.”
But
Holmes just looked disgusted as John attempted to sound smart,
So John tried
to think of something Sherlock couldn’t take apart,
“I guess
that philosophically, when compared with what’s out there,
“We’re
really insignificant, far less key than we’re aware.”
But Sherlock shook his
head, “My friend, you’ve really missed the mark,
“Speculating numbers of
the stars there in the dark,
“When trying to impress
me with your philosophic bent,
“Somehow you missed (with your remarks) …that someone stole our tent!”
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| Photo Credit: Karen of bakinginatornado.com |
With poetry, we all besought
To try to make the week begin
With gentle thoughts,
Perhaps a grin?
So Karen, Charlotte, Mimi, me
Have crafted poems for you to see.
And now you’ve read what we have wrought…
Did we help?
Or did we not?
Topics for the next few weeks (with a huge thank-you to Mimi, who comes up with so many of them!)...
Peculiar People (January 10)
Ditch Your New Year's Resolutions (January 17)
Opposite Day (January 24)
Typo Day (January 31) Celebrate those funny (autocorrect) mistakes.
Kites (February 7)
Valentine (February 14)
Predictions (February 21)
DNA (February 28)
He, he. Sure thing. If you can see the stars camping, someone made away with your tent. Nice piece of deduction.
ReplyDeleteNow that was a sound sleep. Jealous thoughts from here...
ReplyDeleteSurprise ending! Missing what's in front (or above) of your eyes...
ReplyDeleteWell, for being awakened from what must have been a very sound sleep, i'd say Watson actually held his own with his philosophizing.
ReplyDeleteLooking ahead to March, the 7th is "Say Hello Day," the anniversary of the day Bell received his patent for the telephone.
March 14 is Genius Day, the birth anniversary of Albert Einstein.
March 21 is World Poetry Day, we could wax poetic about our favorite art form.
March 28 is Respect Your Cat Day, a commemoration of Richard II's 1384 edict forbidding eating them.
For some reason, the topic "imperfection" keeps coming to my mind, we could use that as well. Take your pick, if some of these just don't sit right, let me know and i am sure my crazy brain can come up with more.