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Posted on December 12, 2021

Another Poem

I write another poem for to reassure someone (Me?) that nothing will hinder.

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Posted on November 30, 2021

Perhaps

Ends; begins. Writ; collected.

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Posted on October 27, 2021

A Sonnet On Not Writing Much

I see that neither muse nor pen is spent.

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Posted on April 2, 2021

Shimmershine

“More to see! The child who eats the twisting treat; the gull who rides the unseen surf.”

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Posted on January 10, 2021

Unlimited

Paddling swan in feathers.

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Posted on December 11, 2020

Tanka, With A Bonus Quatrain

Day-drinker ponders; rises; leaves the poem.

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Posted on March 27, 2020

Within

Two tidal swells of light ‘n sound awash e’er o’er my senses…

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Posted on November 27, 2019

] ] ] ] ] or, A Poem Perched In Poco

The candle on the island lights the moving, glass-bound muse.

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Posted on November 26, 2019November 26, 2019

Fifty-Seven Minutes

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

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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