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Posted on November 12, 2023November 12, 2023

Song Of Palestine – When Does The Song End?

It doesn’t.

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Posted on August 20, 2023August 20, 2023

Palermo Canto

‘Midst the sun-burnt blocks blaze orange-walls, the pink of their compan’yuns calling…

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Posted on June 25, 2022

Settled

Beings who know themselves.

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Posted on November 5, 2020November 19, 2020

A Song Of Molly Owen

T’was where I was standing, with Molly wavin’.

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Posted on October 12, 2020

Flicker, Silent Voice

In confinement – self ‘n solitary –
there sits a child.

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Posted on August 25, 2020August 25, 2020

A Song Of Thoth & Merit

“The cosmos, then, was chaos…”

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Posted on August 3, 2020

Fleeting Songs, Eternal: the tanka & the sonnet

Little song. Short song.

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Posted on April 6, 2020

A Song From Mem’ry Deep

? ( … )

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Posted on April 1, 2020June 1, 2025

A Song Of Ipet-Isu

Let sekhem and sesheshet sing in beat-procession, ringing through these ‘glyphed papyrus-reeds!

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Posted on November 25, 2019

Adagio… Hanging There, Unwav’ring

O’er th’aural landscape rest the guiding waves.

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Posted on July 21, 2019

A Song Of Poems

Told through tense interpretation, their tales light the night and meet the morning.

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William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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