a/n: Many thanks again to the contributing authors. I would be very happy to receive further poems if anyone else wishes to join in. I believe nytd has succeeded in composing the poem title with the most inventive use of the word "moor" so far -a challenge perhaps?
Holmes and his companions do not belong to me
Just a few authors more
seventeen
Moor courage
by Wolf's Shadow
He wished not to see
The moor, dreadful sight
Its secrets held terror
Indescribable at night.
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Not just a wild criminal
But an unknown danger.
He was risking his life
For another, a stranger.
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His duty remained
He would, could not run
For despite his great fear
The game had begun.
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eighteen
Moortal Musings
by nytd
The barren heath, a desolate moor
That isolated fen
Could not have been a more suitable place
For the Devil to prey on men
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Yet if a man had heard the tale
Of the Baskerville hound's ire
An easy thing it would be to scoff
In the sitting room by the fire
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But in that lonely corner of Devonshire
With fog and Neolithic home
It was much more difficult to dispute
That a fiendish beast might roam
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The spectral hound had been described
As huge as far as dogs go
With slavering jaws, demonic eyes
And a preternatural glow
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As a man of science I tried to ignore
Such cobwebs and moonshine
But when that howl swept across the moor
A chill ran up my spine
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It hadn't helped that even Holmes
Had quoted Baskerville lore
When the powers of evil are exalted
Make sure to stay off the moor
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I did my best to disregard the myth
But the footprint had me vexed
And if a hound did roam the ground
Was it from this world or the next?
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nineteen
In Baker Street Once Moor
by AdidasandPie
Holmes confidently proclaimed there was no better man
Before I could answer Sir Henry seized me by the hand
On Saturday I was set to go to Baskerville Hall
So that back to Holmes in London I might report all
To my surprise, on the day that we were meant to depart
I saw it was false to call Holmes a "brain without a heart"
He said that it was a nasty business on the tor
He'd be glad to have me safe and sound in Baker Street once more
MV
twenty
Moor questions
by mrspencil
So, the nightmare is now over,
My ordeal is at an end.
I should make a full recovery
As mind and body mend.
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But, as I head for distant shores
And leave the moor behind,
So many questions trouble me
And occupy my mind.
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I gained my rightful title,
My inheritance and land.
But what did Holmes and Watson gain?
I don't quite understand.
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What made my case a worthwhile one
To risk their safety for?
What made them swap their London home
For peril on the moor?
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It's obvious they understood
Their own lives could be lost.
What factors made them both decide
That this was worth the cost?
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Who else would rush to help
With such a complicated case;
Prepared to hunt my demons down,
And meet them face to face?
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I am not a close acquaintance.
I can't claim to know them well.
And yet they stood beside me
To defeat that hound of Hell.
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It's clear their motivation
Was not pride or simple greed.
They gloried in the challenge,
And they helped a man in need.
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And if I needed help again,
They would not hesitate.
The fact that men like this exist,
Is cause to celebrate.
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Moor later?