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Posted on October 14, 2022

A Tanka As The Bells A-Peel

Please.

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Posted on September 26, 2022September 26, 2022

Pointless Whimsy

Oops…

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Posted on September 25, 2022

South-West; North-East

To be honest… it was fine.

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Posted on September 24, 2022

Brunel’s Butt’ry Sanwidge Shoppe

Relatively cold, this breezesome morning – bracing.

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Posted on September 20, 2022

As The Rowing Teams Row By

Their wake moves me.

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Posted on September 18, 2022

North-East; South-West

I saw the sunset, seeping low, beyond the estate houses.

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Posted on September 12, 2022

Subject To No-One, Mr. Windsor

We’re citizens alike, subject to rule of cracked ‘n flawed democracy!

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Posted on August 29, 2022August 29, 2022

A Sonnet Here At Robin Hood’s Bay

Sunhat ‘n crabbing bucket – rock-pool girl! She watches where her sandaled-feet stone-stand.

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Posted on August 26, 2022August 30, 2022

Bamburgh Castle Viewing

Cuthbert’s hermitage surrounded: seals slipslide ‘n slumber strandside.

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Posted on August 22, 2022

Begging

I’m in two minds.

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Posted on August 12, 2022

At Shambles’ End

A-shambling through the queue.

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Posted on August 6, 2022

The Cross, The Star, & The Crescent Moon

Three men (dark-eyed) at th’fire’s edge.

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Posted on August 1, 2022

On York’s Waterway

Yah nough, don’t yuh?

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Posted on July 9, 2022

Coffee & Pineapple Juice

I’ve left some leaflets ‘n some booklets.

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Posted on July 3, 2022

Entropy In Motion

The steam; the surface.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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