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Category: Prose & poetry

Posted on Mar 3, 2025

Murmuration

Horizon-hovering, dance fluxflow flight!

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Posted on Feb 2, 2025

One Hundred Years In But A Moment

A century has passed in full
these last twelve months…

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Posted on Feb 1, 2025

From Here To When?

Where to from here?

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Posted on Oct 31, 2024

New Gaza

Leshemchot-ir. Tevach-ir. Sho’a-ir.

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Posted on Oct 6, 2024

As My Whole-Soul Heart Aches Heavily With Love For Him

Breaking…

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Posted on Oct 4, 2024

Lubnān Weeps Rage & Grief With Filasṭīn

The mountain’s lament, ‘cross the valley dark, sings grief ‘n fury to the olive flow’r…

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Posted on Aug 22, 2024Jan 14, 2026

Seven Years Of Poetry

From February of 2016 to the end of 2023.

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Posted on Aug 8, 2024

I Dreamed I Saw The QueenKing’s Face In Person, There Before Me

A form adorned in beauty.

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Posted on Jul 17, 2024

Not. Lost.

Perhaps.

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Posted on Jul 3, 2024

Unintentional Republican Haiku

Come on.

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Posted on May 22, 2024

Posterity

Did I?

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Posted on May 14, 2024

A Green Scene

The baby yells.

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Posted on Apr 12, 2024

Through Whitby

At last, to pincer-piers of wooden slabs…

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Posted on Apr 5, 2024

Fundraising For Palestine

100% of profit goes to the Palestinian cause!

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Posted on Mar 22, 2024

Song Of Palestine – Voices Of Palestine

Find these voices of Palestine.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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