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Posted on October 8, 2019October 8, 2019

Zappai In ‘N On Stokes Croft

The road’s become community.

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Posted on October 7, 2019October 12, 2019

Choice

I doubted if… No traveler returns If I should e’er come back…

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Posted on October 6, 2019October 6, 2019

Expression Pure ‘N Hamstrung

Words like water…

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Posted on October 5, 2019

A Senryu Become Tanka

Intensely inconvenient.

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Posted on October 5, 2019October 5, 2019

Unintentional Zappai

Not many.

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Posted on October 3, 2019October 3, 2019

From Pupil: a senryu in Japanese

Arigato!

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Posted on October 2, 2019October 2, 2019

Bluebird: a haiku in Japanese

Watashi wa neko!

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Posted on October 1, 2019October 1, 2019

Sky: a haiku in Japanese

Ohayo!

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Posted on September 30, 2019September 30, 2019

A Bristol Series

Poetry, prose…

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Posted on September 30, 2019September 30, 2019

Unblank Papyrus

Better sung, better danced, better played.

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Posted on September 29, 2019September 29, 2019

Some Senryu & Zome Zappai

Effortless and effortful: belonging.

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Posted on September 28, 2019September 28, 2019

Waka By Will: H’okay, Here’re Haikai – and this time… it’s accurate

A chattering of consciousness: Spanish, left; English, right.

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Posted on September 28, 2019September 28, 2019

Semi-Colons: a zappai

Here; there; everywhere.

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Posted on September 27, 2019September 27, 2019

Waka By Will: Azzorted Zappai

No – this is zappai!

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Posted on September 26, 2019September 26, 2019

Carefree Commas

Ignoring Word.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

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