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Category: Prose & poetry

Posted on June 17, 2019

Hai(tea-)ku

African/Hungarian/English.

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Posted on June 12, 2019

Sonnet -18

You are e’en clearer; by more stars alight.

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Posted on June 6, 2019

Rhyming Couplets

A rhythm-only song composer who’d not cottoned on.

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Posted on June 6, 2019

Through Street & Square

How distantly it spans.

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Posted on June 5, 2019

Φοίνιξ

Riven rope about a ring of jeweled thorns.

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Posted on May 30, 2019

Death Indifferent

The Lord, to me (supposedly).

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Posted on May 25, 2019

Rings Of Matter

From long, song-saturated maturating messages, vestiges (best out-lived) of another.

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Posted on May 14, 2019

After The Rainbow

Iswillwas/Waswillis?

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Posted on May 13, 2019June 6, 2019

The Fear Of Saying A Word

Erstwhile, the context: don’t kid us, it matters.

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Posted on May 12, 2019

In Tomorrow’s Place

I will have missed it.

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Posted on May 11, 2019

To One: Beginning. To The Other: Ending.

Isn’t/wasn’t/won’t be.

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Posted on May 11, 2019

Those Other Words

Too tailored; too soon.

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Posted on May 8, 2019

&

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Posted on May 4, 2019May 4, 2019

A Day In The Life

Awaken.

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Posted on May 1, 2019

So April Ends & May Begins

Even as (ephemeral) the winter’s apogee takes Easter on and, late, chase they the heels of Autumn.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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