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Tag: Poetry

Posted on November 8, 2025

Novembertime At No. 10

Watch ’em celebrate an armistice
whilst they wage destruction.

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Posted on October 3, 2025

Rainsoul Windweave Timefall

Watching on.

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Posted on August 19, 2025

A Tanka At Criccieth

A butterfly a-flutterflying.

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Posted on July 31, 2025July 31, 2025

Mist Moon-Dawn

Dew-draped green.

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Posted on June 17, 2025

Maryam – Child Of Mothers

She looked out across the universe.

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Posted on May 27, 2025

At Tides, Above The Tide

The estuary meets the blueful sea.

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Posted on May 11, 2025August 14, 2025

Maryam – Daughter Of Magdala

She walks on water’s shores.

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Posted on March 6, 2025

The Fury Of The Earth-Sprung

“Oh eye, oh night…” The Sha’ir speaks, hakawati-heartbeat pulsing.

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Posted on March 3, 2025

Murmuration

Horizon-hovering, dance fluxflow flight!

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Posted on February 2, 2025

One Hundred Years In But A Moment

A century has passed in full
these last twelve months…

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Posted on February 1, 2025

From Here To When?

Where to from here?

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Posted on October 6, 2024

As My Whole-Soul Heart Aches Heavily With Love For Him

Breaking…

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Posted on October 4, 2024

Lubnān Weeps Rage & Grief With Filasṭīn

The mountain’s lament, ‘cross the valley dark, sings grief ‘n fury to the olive flow’r…

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Posted on August 22, 2024August 22, 2024

Seven Years Of Poetry

From February of 2016 to the end of 2023.

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Posted on August 8, 2024

I Dreamed I Saw The QueenKing’s Face In Person, There Before Me

A form adorned in beauty.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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