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StoryMay 1999, An Independent Scotland - 2 Ray Schaufeld21 year 11 months ago
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StoryDrugs - where's the harm? Ray Schaufeld71 year 11 months ago
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Shifting Sands

The ebb the flow, the stay the go upon the shifting sands The ebb the flow the yes the no the water and the land I blew in on an August wind and some...
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Coimbra Haiku

Downtown cobbled view Too many up and down steps My wine party in. Past "backbreakers' climb Red slogans, wet sheets, communes Student dreampower...
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Story of the week

Why Feminism - Me too?

Two nights ago I was kept awake by my neighbour battering his girlfriend. Today I was in my garden. It’s all hunky-dory now and he is on the phone...
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Les Rowse, Philippe and I , final chapter.

Warning,the incident that makes me leave home is a bit sordid.

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186 of my comments have received 187 Great Feedback votes

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Enigmatic, gives the mood of

Posted on Sat, 16 Dec 2017

Enigmatic, gives the mood of a hermit. 'the big black side' sits at the heart of the poem, when I hear the poem in my head this is where the central emphasis falls.

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Posted in What you see when you open the window

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Real mixed with surreal works

Posted on Sun, 30 Jul 2017

Real mixed with surreal works well. Good poem.

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Posted in Hello all, a poem!

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In some people luxury creates an induced feeling of necessity

Posted on Fri, 21 Jul 2017

In some  people luxury creates an induced sense of necessity.'Always wanting more' is astute'

But does being poor always lead to goodness? I think that sometimes it leads to anger and self-pity.However I have more tolerance for miserable...

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Posted in Poor Rich Man/ Poor Man, Rich

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The opening sets the scene

Posted on Sun, 17 Sep 2017

The opening sets the scene effectively. and you get us into what has happened.The final paragraph is flawless, I see the man in front of me and can guess at the unmet needs on both sides.

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Posted in The Oil Refinery

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It's the Bank Holiday and I

Posted on Sat, 26 Aug 2017

It's the Bank Holiday and I have spare time so I am going to yakk on a bit.

When a writer or musician is good and they have something to say my own view is sometimes 'never trust the singer, trust the song' By all means recognise the...

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I like your own angles on

Posted on Sat, 26 Aug 2017

I like your own angles on Eliot, Ewan. Did the man ever realise how funny he must have looked? Going to Margate on the bank holiday and walking into the pub where the cockney family were drinking and chatting. What did Eliot wear for his day down...

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Great poem. I like the

Posted on Sat, 12 Aug 2017

Great poem. I like the internal sounds you made with the right amount of the words. it all hangs and flutters together. You create echoes, reverberations...

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Posted in The Treetops

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Accents can be telling but

Posted on Thu, 30 Jul 2015

Accents can be telling but sometimes I don't know what they tell us. I have two Scottish daughters and moved to the Westcountry while the big one was 11 and the little 'un was four. Within a few months little 'un was saying 'moy name is Jess' as ...

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A close friend of mine took

Posted on Fri, 02 Jun 2017

A close friend of mine took cialis prescribed by his GP.He had horrible stomach ache for a couple of hours and at one point sat on the toilet thinking he was having a cardiac arrest.

We all do what we are able to both physically and...

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Posted in Intellectual Turgidity

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'yet I did stay from place to

Posted on Tue, 30 May 2017

'How r u guyz?' great opening line, the matey colloquial textspeak masking the noncommunication.

'yet I did stay from place to place with  some carrier bags containing my clothes.'

You were homeless. I am not saying this to make you...

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Posted in My Mother and I aren't Talking and Other Tales.

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