A Ballad Here On Wapping Wharf
Upon the breeze, life’s sounds did sail; the people pottered past.
Tag: Ballad
The She-Wolf & The Girl-Child
Upon a time, once, long ago, in a place that I know not, a hooded child (in a crimson coat) through forest paths did trot…
The Ballad Of Elatklof Esrever
A blade a-bound by belt off-cuts abreast her left-side hip, her left hand on the pommel, placed above th’blue-banded grip.
These Auld Graffitied Walls: extracts from The Ballad Of Stokes Croft
Nurtured’s the roots of grass that grows again.
Electrically-Amplified & Clear: extracts from The Ballad Of Stokes Croft
As the sunlight stole away, the counter-culture quarter lit the dusk.
Islands Of Debris: extracts from The Ballad Of Stokes Croft
Waves of ways of making artwork from life. Scores of sounds – electronic, acoustic. Walls sprayed with all kinds of colours – dark, bright. Generations giving new life to it.
Rhythm-Only Song: extracts from The Ballad Of Stokes Croft
“I thought we should sit ‘round, relate our stories, friend to friend. We each know something of this place. Let’s share it, this night, face to face.”
A(n updated) Bristol Series
I have, these recent years, fallen, somehow, in to writing about Bristol over and over again.
The Ballad Of Stokes Croft: a song of poems
It is a song of poems – different parts in different verse throughout a night exchanging stories.
Excerpts: a trailer for a ballad
Each of us with tales ‘n layered lives to be disclosed…
william altoft 