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Posted on Dec 5, 2023

A Sonnet To The Man From Stratford

It was not the man from Stratford‽

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Posted on Jan 19, 2020Jan 19, 2020

A Flow’r Upon A Grave

Shape ‘n send forw’d the currents riv’ring by! With your time-warped scraps the bed doth lie suffused!

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Posted on Oct 7, 2019Oct 12, 2019

Choice

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

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Posted on Jul 18, 2019Jul 18, 2019

Praise for The Floating Harbour

Exaggerated, fabricated praise.

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Posted on Jul 9, 2019

Hamlet In Haiku: Act 5

Knaves and jesters, all.

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Posted on Jul 9, 2019

Hamlet In Haiku: Act 4

With sweet flowers, go.

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Posted on Jul 8, 2019

Hamlet In Haiku: Act 3

Paralysis of action.

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Posted on Jul 7, 2019

Hamlet In Haiku: Act 2

Stricken fair-lovelorn.

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Posted on Jul 7, 2019

Hamlet In Haiku: Act 1

Alone in grief sustained.

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Posted on Jun 12, 2019

Sonnet -18

You are e’en clearer; by more stars alight.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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