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| Story | A statue of you | celticman | 31 | 1 hour 49 min ago |
| Story | Sonnet in Silence | D G Moody | 11 | 3 hours 43 min ago |
| Story | Best Laid Plans | jennifer | 10 | 4 hours 44 min ago |
| Story | Fathoms Above | Turlough | 26 | 5 hours 52 min ago |
| Story | Stormy Night Of Passion | skinner_jennifer | 17 | 10 hours 17 min ago |
| Story | Held | queen beatle | 2 | 1 week 2 days ago |
| Story | Red Door | jennifer | 4 | 1 week 4 days ago |
| Story | Anthem | celticman | 23 | 1 week 4 days ago |
| Story | House of Cards | jennifer | 10 | 1 week 6 days ago |
| Story | Flight | jennifer | 0 | 2 weeks 5 days ago |
| Story | Walk With You | jennifer | 10 | 2 weeks 5 days ago |
| Story | The winter of the frogs | queen beatle | 4 | 2 weeks 5 days ago |
| Story | Absolution | jennifer | 2 | 1 month 1 week ago |
| Collection | Hurricane Warning (2025) | jennifer | 0 | 1 month 2 weeks ago |
| Story | The Mulberry Bush | Stickleback | 1 | 3 months 4 weeks ago |
| Story | Mad Girl’s Heart Song | jennifer | 8 | 4 months 19 hours ago |
| Story | Anxiety Rules | jennifer | 17 | 4 months 1 day ago |
| Story | Growing Up - Competition Entry | Caldwell | 3 | 4 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Butterflies | jennifer | 5 | 5 months 42 min ago |
| Story | The Crow | jennifer | 2 | 6 months 2 days ago |
| Story | Bleeding Rainbows | jennifer | 7 | 6 months 3 days ago |
| Story | Leonard & Co-hen | Ewan | 3 | 6 months 1 week ago |
| Story | Tiredness (A Sonnet of Sorts!) | jennifer | 3 | 6 months 1 week ago |
| Story | Another Art (Villanelle-esque!) | jennifer | 0 | 6 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | Watching | jennifer | 8 | 6 months 2 weeks ago |
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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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House of Cards
House of Cards Jennifer Pickup, 28.01.2025 As the storm winds blow, and the waters rise, My heart sinks down, and I shutter my eyes – I wait for...
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Absolution
Absolution Jennifer Pickup, 01.01.2025 This year I will not make any resolution Simply to fail at it in the execution, For my vices I do not seek a...
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Mad Girl’s Heart Song
Mad Girl’s Heart Song (A Villanelle, based on Sylvia Plath’s ‘Mad Girl’s Love Song’) Jennifer Pickup, 26.09.2024 for World Mental Health Day 10.10...
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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
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...
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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
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