Elegy For A Lost Cascade
Aubrieta fails.
Author: William Altoft
Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.
Kyoto Haibun
The view of rain that leaps the cloud-wisp walls ‘n wings its way unto the earth – I spread my thumb ‘n finger for to raise katsurakawa to a focal point.
Something Beside Remains
Your essence, earnestly put forth unto impermanence to weather storms of whetherwhims.
Two Poems For Puzzlewood
The dog-violet blends its colour in amongst the scattered sky, as light coursecrashes through the canopy…
Shimmershine
“More to see! The child who eats the twisting treat; the gull who rides the unseen surf.”
A Scene, Translated
Breeze breaks in laughter loosed; kuhllainkkinkcnk sothairyugoe! hahihihihihuh hyeh-uh?!
An Exercise In Quatrains
Above the reaching leaves that grow beyond the basket’s edges, dance petals of lilac; of white; of crimson.
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