Skip to content Menu

william altoft

Sidebar
  • Home
  • Blogposts
  • The Ballad Of Stokes Croft
  • The Floating Harbour
  • Free Speech Upon the Rock Above the City
  • On the resilience & vulnerability of New York City
  • Nafereti-Iti
  • Floating On The Avon By The Floodplains Of The Nile

Tag: blank verse

Posted on June 10, 2021June 10, 2021

Cynghanedd In Blank-Verse

Th’waste rain-fall flows, fitfully free, unto sea o’er reams of language earth-born.

Continue Reading
Posted on April 16, 2021

A Week Ago Today, I Travelled Through

I switch from now to then; from then to now.

Continue Reading
Posted on March 8, 2021June 29, 2021

Hymn To The City Of The Sceptre

Your wealth extends to awe all foreign lands! Your pious worship deeply pleases all our divine hosts, who bless our lives with Ma’at!

Continue Reading
Posted on February 14, 2020

Some Blank Verse, In Which I Indirectly State That The Sunlight Fills The Room

Now mourned’s the passing peace of night, its flight flown with the scorching licks of star-fire at its torn ‘n frayed heels.

Continue Reading
Posted on June 23, 2019June 23, 2019

Poems At The Place Between Commitments

To a-waiting ideas, then, return.

Continue Reading

Author

William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

Personal Links

  • My PayPal page
  • My Instagram

View Full Profile →

Blog at WordPress.com.
Top

Latest posts

  • Poetry Collection: Fleeting Songs, Eternal March 17, 2023
  • One More Drop Of Coffee March 7, 2023
  • Poetry Collection: Written Somewhere Sunny In The South-West March 6, 2023

Categories

Conservation Essay Floating On The Avon By The Floodplains Of The Nile Prose & poetry science Star Wars The Ballad Of Stokes Croft The Floating Harbour Uncategorized Wildlife

Tags

Ancient Egypt art Bristol cafe café coffee Egypt haiku harbourside Japanese life memory morning Music night Novel Novella poem Poetry river senryu Serialised novel song sonnet Stokes Croft Summer sun tanka The Floating Harbour time Waka Wildlife writer writing zappai

Recently popular

  • Their Stealthy Freedom: a poem for the women of Iran

Archives

Follow william altoft on WordPress.com

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 295 other subscribers
  • Follow Following
    • william altoft
    • Join 295 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • william altoft
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar