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| Type | Title | Author | Replies | Last updated |
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| Story | Growing Up - Competition Entry | Caldwell | 3 | 1 week 4 days ago |
| Story | Butterflies | jennifer | 5 | 2 weeks 2 days ago |
| Story | The Crow | jennifer | 2 | 1 month 2 weeks ago |
| Story | Bleeding Rainbows | jennifer | 7 | 1 month 2 weeks ago |
| Story | Leonard & Co-hen | Ewan | 3 | 1 month 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Tiredness (A Sonnet of Sorts!) | jennifer | 3 | 1 month 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Another Art (Villanelle-esque!) | jennifer | 0 | 2 months 1 week ago |
| Story | Watching | jennifer | 8 | 2 months 1 week ago |
| Story | Poppies | jennifer | 8 | 2 months 1 week ago |
| Story | Last Train | jennifer | 19 | 2 months 4 weeks ago |
| Story | Memento Mori | celticman | 24 | 3 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | The Red Kite (bird of prey) | socialeaf | 18 | 5 months 4 weeks ago |
| Story | Superstition | jennifer | 8 | 5 months 4 weeks ago |
| Story | Unsaid (A Villanelle-ish) | jennifer | 8 | 7 months 1 week ago |
| Story | Tilly cut loose from the day | celticman | 21 | 7 months 1 week ago |
| Story | Titterstone Clee (533m)16/02/24 | Rhiannonw | 10 | 7 months 1 week ago |
| Story | The Magic of the Wood | skinner_jennifer | 2 | 7 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | The Mole (A Sonnet) | jennifer | 7 | 8 months 1 week ago |
| Story | New Year's Resolution | jennifer | 15 | 9 months 4 days ago |
| Story | Spider | jennifer | 4 | 10 months 2 days ago |
| Story | Sing (for 11.11.2023) | jennifer | 4 | 10 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Anxiety Rules | jennifer | 16 | 11 months 1 day ago |
| Story | perspective | jennifer | 3 | 1 year 3 weeks ago |
| Story | The lies we tell our children | jennifer | 6 | 1 year 1 month ago |
| Collection | Storm on the Horizon (2023-2024) | jennifer | 0 | 1 year 1 month ago |
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Butterflies
Butterflies Jennifer Pickup, 16.09.2024 Another warm September day – I watch the mourners make their way Into the building of goodbyes, With...
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The Crow
The Crow Jennifer Pickup, 17.08.2024 I am the crow and I fly Fast as a dart, and straight as a die, Observing the world with my watchful eye. I see...
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Bleeding Rainbows
Bleeding Rainbows Jennifer Pickup, 16.08.2024 I’ve had many labels stuck on me, But wearing them always has been with pride; ‘One of a kind’, I’m ‘...
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Tiredness (A Sonnet of Sorts!)
Tiredness (A Sonnet of Sorts!) Jennifer Pickup 09.08.2024 This morning, I could not get out of bed – More ‘waking the dead’ than just ‘sleepy head’!...
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Another Art (Villanelle-esque!)
Another Art (Villanelle-esque!) Jennifer Pickup, 31.07.2024 (Inspired by ‘One Art’ by Elizabeth Bishop) The art of waiting is hard to master –...
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So glad...
Posted on Sun, 11 Aug 2024
...I'm not the only one that does this.
Love the final stanza.
J x
Read full commentPosted in Leonard & Co-hen
Thank you!
Posted on Mon, 17 Jun 2024
The train metaphor comes from my dad being a steam train enthusiast - throughout my childhood, we spent countless hours as a family riding on steam trains, exploring steam musems, going to model railway exhibits, and train spotting! The family...
Read full commentPosted in Last Train
Wonderful!
Posted on Fri, 05 Apr 2024
The imagery is so evocative, how beautifully done!
Saw a pair the other day - spectacular!
J x
Read full commentPosted in The Red Kite (bird of prey)
True!
Posted on Thu, 04 Apr 2024
The poem does admit that at the end, though!
J x
Read full commentPosted in Superstition
First time...
Posted on Tue, 10 Oct 2023
...that I've written about this. Hardest poem I've ever written, it took me nearly two weeks on and off, and weirdly I finished it on World Mental Health Day, which I'll be honest I didn't even know existed until it popped up on an NHS campaign...
Read full commentPosted in Anxiety Rules
Wow!
Posted on Fri, 11 Aug 2023
Thank you - what an honour!
It was hugely enjoyable and challenging to write - not just understanding and then following the structure of the poetic form, but addressing the subject matter. Personal and yet also the experience of others,...
Read full commentPosted in Wolves
This line,'Counting out an
Posted on Wed, 25 Jun 2008
This line,
'Counting out an abacus
of small conceits'
is just perfect.
As ever, I am going to ask for punctuation all through - your use of it and capitals is rather sporadic, I feel!
Read full commentPosted in The Mulberry Bush
Great poem, but I feel the
Posted on Wed, 16 Jun 2010
Great poem, but I feel the word 'invigorates' doesn't fit - it makes the line have too many syllables and throws the rhythm, which is otherwise pretty uniform, off. How about finding another word that means the same thing but has fewer syllables? J...Read full commentPosted in Sun's role
Mad, exhausting,
Posted on Tue, 10 Mar 2009
Mad, exhausting, intense! You captured such a crazy feeling! Once again, just the 'it's' to point out, Yes, keep writing! J xRead full commentPosted in Lost in New York - Pt II
'the rain battered box gift
Posted on Wed, 25 Jun 2008
'the rain battered box gift wrapped' such a vivid image of the coffin. This is minimalistic, and yet says it all. And for once, I think the lack of puncatuation adds to that.Read full commentPosted in One Driver Escaped Uninjured