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| Story | Lucky in Love | jennifer | 2 | 4 months 1 day ago |
| Story | Warning | jennifer | 5 | 4 months 1 day ago |
| Story | Sonnet in Silence | D G Moody | 12 | 4 months 5 days ago |
| Story | American Pie | jennifer | 13 | 5 months 1 day ago |
| Story | Stormy Night Of Passion | skinner_jennifer | 18 | 7 months 3 days ago |
| Story | Fathoms Above | Turlough | 28 | 7 months 4 days ago |
| Story | A statue of you | celticman | 31 | 7 months 1 week ago |
| Story | Best Laid Plans | jennifer | 10 | 7 months 1 week ago |
| Story | Held | queen beatle | 2 | 7 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | Red Door | jennifer | 4 | 7 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | Anthem | celticman | 23 | 7 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | House of Cards | jennifer | 10 | 7 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Flight | jennifer | 0 | 7 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Walk With You | jennifer | 10 | 7 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | The winter of the frogs | queen beatle | 4 | 7 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Absolution | jennifer | 2 | 8 months 2 weeks ago |
| Collection | Hurricane Warning (2025) | jennifer | 0 | 8 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | The Mulberry Bush | Stickleback | 1 | 11 months 1 week ago |
| Story | Mad Girl’s Heart Song | jennifer | 8 | 11 months 1 week ago |
| Story | Anxiety Rules | jennifer | 17 | 11 months 1 week ago |
| Story | Growing Up - Competition Entry | Caldwell | 3 | 12 months 2 days ago |
| Story | Butterflies | jennifer | 5 | 1 year 2 days ago |
| Story | The Crow | jennifer | 2 | 1 year 1 month ago |
| Story | Bleeding Rainbows | jennifer | 7 | 1 year 1 month ago |
| Story | Leonard & Co-hen | Ewan | 3 | 1 year 1 month ago |
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Warning
Warning Jennifer Pickup, 14.05.2025 The best things are intangible Those precious things We can’t see or touch Money can’t buy the best things Those...
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Lucky in Love
Lucky in Love Jennifer Pickup, 01.05.2025 Touch wood Bless you Crossed fingers Is it true? Find the pot of Rainbow gold A legend Something old Throw...
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American Pie
American Pie (Edited Version) Jennifer Pickup, 17.04.2025 Four decades plus since I first heard those piano chords behind the opening words, and that...
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Best Laid Plans
Best Laid Plans (for Valentine’s Day) Jennifer Pickup, 11.02.2025 Is it time yet to take down all your pictures from the wall? Am I ready to admit...
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Red Door
Red Door Jennifer Pickup, 03.02.2025 I heard the news today, It made my heart beat sore. I took your record out to play Only a night or two before...
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It's always a dangerous thing...
Posted on Thu, 09 Jan 2025
....to ask what someone else is thinking.
You may not like the answer. Sometimes it's best not to know!
I love a sonnet, and this one is so atmospheric.
'taking his silence as separation' - Yes, this line! So well...
Read full commentPosted in Sonnet in Silence
This has echoes of...
Posted on Sat, 07 Dec 2024
...so many things. But I'm getting 'Wuthering Heights' vibes.
How wonderfully atmospheric.
'breath like intense tempest' - love this line, both the imagery and the sound of it when read aloud, the rise and fall of the words....
Read full commentPosted in Stormy Night Of Passion
So true!
Posted on Thu, 10 Oct 2024
I've written four villanelles now - this one most recently, one called 'Another Art' in July this year inspired by ‘One Art’ by Elizabeth Bishop, 'Unsaid' in February this year (not sure of the inspiration, think I just based it loosely on the...
Read full commentPosted in Mad Girl’s Heart Song
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,...
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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
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