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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 May 22, 2024

Posterity

Did I?

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Posted on Oct 27, 2021

A Sonnet On Not Writing Much

I see that neither muse nor pen is spent.

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Posted on Aug 14, 2020Aug 14, 2020

Haiga

Art ‘n poetry.

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Posted on Jul 6, 2020Jul 6, 2020

A Sonnet On The Harbourside

Outside, upon the paved ‘n railing-ringed walk – sheltered – way, where Sunday patrons sit, the sun, through th’river’s auld reflection sings on th’wooden slats below the Cascade Steps.

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Posted on Apr 24, 2020

Will Be

I do wonder…

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Posted on Mar 2, 2020Feb 26, 2026

Three Tanka; Many Words

A dragon’s hide.

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Posted on Feb 6, 2020

A Sonnet To The Art Of Writing

Creation pained; a look that’s lost, or hid…

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Posted on Jan 10, 2020

Writing Is A Visual Art

Song-spilt ink.

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Posted on Dec 29, 2019

All You Need Is Art

No calligraphy you’ll lay that isn’t art.

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Posted on Nov 26, 2019Nov 26, 2019

Fifty-Seven Minutes

Where is the poetry and where’s the poet that it clasps to?

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Posted on Nov 25, 2019

Adagio… Hanging There, Unwav’ring

O’er th’aural landscape rest the guiding waves.

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Posted on Nov 12, 2019

The Wall’s Another Canvas

Take syllabic space ‘n empty it of possibility.

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Posted on Oct 6, 2019Oct 6, 2019

Expression Pure ‘N Hamstrung

Words like water…

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Posted on Sep 30, 2019Sep 30, 2019

Unblank Papyrus

Better sung, better danced, better played.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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