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22 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 727324 times
and 179 of my stories have been cherry picked.
11 of my 1,505 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 11 votes
Jennifer Pickup is a secondary school English teacher turned primary school teacher turned Nursery Manager and Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator with a love of telling stories and weaving rhymes. She lives in Wiltshire with her Chihuahua-cross rescue dog and when she isn't working she can be found dog-walking, horse-riding her beloved dressage horse, dressage judging, or glued to her laptop, writing. A lot of her work can be found on www.abctales.com - this writing community offered her valuable feedback and support over the years and was instrumental in getting her fist novel published through Unbound. Unbelievable is her first novel - http://unbound.co.uk/books/unbelievable - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unbelievable-Jennifer-Pickup/dp/1908717068.
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Mad Girl’s Heart Song
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Butterflies
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The Crow
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Bleeding Rainbows
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Tiredness (A Sonnet of Sorts!)
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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,...
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
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