Ray Schaufeld
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186 of my 2,166 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 187 votes
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Outcomes of my Dad's recent Funeral in London
I am so glad that I live In Devon. Every other member of my family and pretty much everyone who is close to them lives in London. Mainly North London...
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2002-05 My memories of working at a hostel for homeless men
It wasn't my first time working with people who had become homeless. It was 22 years after. I was now 43, working in Exeter not Belfast. The system...
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Sun Song
The food, the flowers, the family, the friends Morrie and Joan's back garden when a child, The suburbs of North London. Today - a sunny Devon garden...
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Craigmillar
'I would rather spend three years in Craigmillar Castle than three weeks in Craigmillar' - the Other Alternative Edinburgh ed. and compiled by RES
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Wanton Wanting
(Reposted from 3 years ago) My lotus eating fantasies that fire my body but shirk the possibilities of flesh and blood I want not. My ragged boys and...
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Excellent.There is a lot in
Posted on Thu, 09 Mar 2017
Excellent.There is a lot in this section, interweaving themes, music, locality, memory, history, relationships, ghosts that will not release you. Pascal has two marriages, to Emer and also to Dundalk. He is now renewing his vows
Read full commentPosted in CC 115: Schubert
This feels 'right there',
Posted on Tue, 07 Mar 2017
This feels 'right there', both parts of your poem, Rhiannon. I hope you are making a booklet of your children's poems they often remind me of A.A. Milne in a good way.
Read full commentPosted in School Absence, Home Presence
Short and good, as always
Posted on Thu, 02 Mar 2017
Short and good, as always with your best Nature writing you make me want to be there, Rhiannon.
Read full commentPosted in Wild Daffodil Wood
I found this very worthwhile
Posted on Fri, 24 Feb 2017
I found this very worthwhile reading. My home life when I was young was unhappy in different ways from yours and yet there is stuff I can relate to. I was seen as less good than my parents and my sister as they were insecure and it made them feel...
Read full commentPosted in A familiar through-line
Salvation sounds good,
Posted on Sun, 19 Feb 2017
Salvation sounds good, Rhiannon.
Read full commentPosted in ‘Every eye shall see him’*
Good advice.
Posted on Sun, 12 Feb 2017
Good advice.
Read full commentPosted in You want to leave a legacy?
Yes, it can happen, malice
Posted on Sat, 11 Feb 2017
Yes, it can happen, malice can melt
Read full commentPosted in Heat or Warm
Good topical poem, Rhiannon.
Posted on Thu, 02 Feb 2017
Good topical poem, Rhiannon. The last stanza is a wake-up call to all of us.
Read full commentPosted in Terminological Inexactitudes
Good fun. Your poem makes a
Posted on Sat, 12 Nov 2016
Good fun. Your poem makes a humorous point about image and identity. I am not sure why you rated it age 18 ( it does not contain any truly horrible images of war or of the uglier sides of sexual relationships and more people might read it if you...
Read full commentPosted in Star Struck
Educational, lively fun.
Posted on Tue, 24 Jan 2017
Educational, lively fun.
Read full commentPosted in Bugs, bugs, and more bugs
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