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Tag: Poetry

Posted on Aug 31, 2020

A Tanka On The Surface Of My Coffee

In spreadhaze hue…

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Posted on Aug 25, 2020Aug 25, 2020

A Song Of Thoth & Merit

“The cosmos, then, was chaos…”

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Posted on Aug 24, 2020

Tanka Taken From A Tree-Trunk

King Will’yum walks, in wettened-sand.

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Posted on Aug 24, 2020Aug 24, 2020

Bath Senryu

I held her.

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Posted on Aug 19, 2020

Long Division

Sentence by sentence.

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Posted on Aug 16, 2020Aug 16, 2020

Boston Tea Party Senryu

Senryu & haiga.

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Posted on Aug 14, 2020Aug 14, 2020

Haiga

Art ‘n poetry.

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Posted on Aug 13, 2020Aug 13, 2020

Poor Choice

A habit making heat-wave worse.

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Posted on Aug 13, 2020

I, in this inkyphem’ral
moment.

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Posted on Aug 10, 2020

Wand’ring With My Ink-Blue Thoughts

Hill. Café. Bus.

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Posted on Aug 9, 2020

Fire & Starlight

A centre-piece surrounded.

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Posted on Aug 5, 2020

Lost Japan

Is it true?

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Posted on Aug 3, 2020

Fleeting Songs, Eternal: the tanka & the sonnet

Little song. Short song.

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Posted on Jul 31, 2020

ありあけ

あさがとりまとめます.

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Posted on Jul 30, 2020

Egypt & Industry: third peak; third sneak

A finely crafted lot of letters nailed into its door, the room, so full in retrospect, slept – spacious; silent.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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