Ray Schaufeld
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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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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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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.
Read full commentPosted in What you see when you open the window
Real mixed with surreal works
Posted on Sun, 30 Jul 2017
Real mixed with surreal works well. Good poem.
Read full commentPosted in Hello all, a poem!
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...
Read full commentPosted in Poor Rich Man/ Poor Man, Rich
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.
Read full commentPosted in The Oil Refinery
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...
Read full commentPosted in The Treetops
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 ...
Read full commentPosted in Hate Thy Neighbour – Racism In The 1970s
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...
Read full commentPosted in Intellectual Turgidity
'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...
Read full commentPosted in My Mother and I aren't Talking and Other Tales.
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