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Tag: haiku

Posted on Mar 3, 2025

Murmuration

Horizon-hovering, dance fluxflow flight!

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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 Feb 12, 2024

Song Of Palestine – Gazan Haiku

Petals bright.

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Posted on Apr 16, 2023

Written Somewhere Sunny In The North-East

A melody by the a-peeling bells.

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Posted on Mar 17, 2023Feb 26, 2026

Poetry Collection: Fleeting Songs, Eternal

My journey along the winding, wistful, wond’rous way that is Japanese poetry.

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Posted on Mar 7, 2023

One More Drop Of Coffee

Coffee-disk.

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Posted on Feb 20, 2023

Time-Begotten

Hist’ry-layered.

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Posted on Jan 31, 2023

Twirling Doodles

Well-lived.

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Posted on Nov 5, 2022Nov 5, 2022

Our Aft’noon/Eve In Haiku

Here where the lake’s submerged this bench.

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Posted on Sep 20, 2022

As The Rowing Teams Row By

Their wake moves me.

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Posted on Jun 3, 2022Jun 12, 2022

雨; 雪

空が話きす.

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Posted on Jan 23, 2022

A Second Scrap Of Notes-Gone-By

That’ll be distracting.

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Posted on Jan 21, 2022

A Scrap Of Notes-Gone-By

In one ear ‘n out the other.

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Posted on Dec 27, 2021

I Saw The Girl-Child, Standing

A blaze-blue spirit, wonder-rapt.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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