Ray Schaufeld
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7 collections on the site.
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A Tour of My Neighbourhood
Written some years ago when I lived in inner-city Edinburgh.
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Visit to A la Ronde
‘Bet the servants weren’t too pleased, sweeping up all the feathers,’ says Friend, looking at Jane and Mary Parminters’ spiral frieze in the drawing...
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Before I Post Them
You left behind your knickers and your vest Returning from the station, here I see Two memories of a loved one who has left. In pink lace florals was...
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The Screen Within - A Tale of the Unexpected
Woke up this morning, usual moves. Cleaning the cinema before the doors open, my one surprise is what I find. That pair of black ladies knickers on...
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Lyric
An old labourer Entered by Dionysus, His sap rising, Plucked his strings And sang. His clothes were shabby and his hair unkempt His voice sometimes...
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This is wild! Disaster grunge
Posted on Sat, 05 Jul 2014
This is wild! Disaster grunge comedy, family mayhem, terrific dialogue. I love 'with practised caution.' Elsie
Read full commentPosted in ex - I'm every woman
Your honesty is astounding,
Posted on Sun, 06 Jul 2014
Your honesty is astounding, Taris. I would love you to follow this with something where you praise yourself for the things you do right....
Read full commentPosted in I Forgive Myself
Perfect timing, Tina for this
Posted on Fri, 04 Jul 2014
Perfect timing, Tina for this very entertaining poem, good historical detail with the Quant frock too. Murray has balls on him; now he's out I want Djkovich to win Elsie
Read full commentPosted in The Undergraduate
A heartfelt, very biting poem
Posted on Tue, 01 Jul 2014
A heartfelt, very biting poem. Alphadog, do you do Open Mic? I'm having a crack at Exeter Phoenix Take the Mic Wednesday 16th. This month's fully now booked so August or September? If you wish to read for up to five minutes you use their online...
Read full commentPosted in The Gonts
Keep going with this, Carl,it
Posted on Wed, 28 May 2014
Keep going with this, Carl,it's an individualistic tale of quest for meaning and identity. The mixed-media form mirrors the feelings, the images mix the tale of constant change.I love sequence writing. Music, how it mattered to us all, I know...
Read full commentPosted in The Boy from the Tail End of the Goldhawk Road
Carl, I think this works very
Posted on Fri, 30 May 2014
Carl, I think this works very well as a life medley; gloamings, gleanings, reflection is exactly that Elsie
Read full commentPosted in The Gloaming of a Golden Era and Other Literary Leftovers in the Form of a Finale
Recklessness, i know it well!
Posted on Tue, 13 May 2014
Recklessness, i know it well! Your writing here seems almost as if it is from an earlier era; a dissolute rake making his descent down the Hogarthian Hell of Gin Lane only to find salvation whilst almost at his last gasp. You show us that there...
Read full commentPosted in The Spawn of the Swinging Sixties Chapter Thirteen Of All Sad Words of Tongue or Pen
Intriguing Will, I like the
Posted on Sun, 11 May 2014
Intriguing Will, I like the way we learn that the storyteller is on a work release project from the asylum right at the end.His quiet observations contrast with the youthful babble of his colleague and the workplace is well described...
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You are right about rap being
Posted on Fri, 09 May 2014
You are right about rap being a form of poetry, Taris.
Eminem is painful and also very angry, I like him because he helps me understand male violence. Male violence or any violence is always wrong however Eminem helps me understand how...
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Love of life, awareness of
Posted on Sat, 03 May 2014
Love of life, awareness of the love around you, Taris this is lovely, long may it last! Elsie
Read full commentPosted in The Happiness is Arriving
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