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Posted on Aug 19, 2025

A Tanka At Criccieth

A butterfly a-flutterflying.

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Posted on Jul 31, 2025Jul 31, 2025

Mist Moon-Dawn

Dew-draped green.

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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 14, 2024

A Green Scene

The baby yells.

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Posted on Feb 9, 2024

Sleeping Child Of Many Day-Dreams

You are here.

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Posted on Dec 26, 2023

Song Of Palestine – Monsters Of War

Conscious evil, delib’rately committed.

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Posted on Dec 21, 2023

Song Of Palestine – Azrael

She sits, head in hands.

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Posted on Nov 19, 2023Nov 19, 2023

Song Of Palestine – For The Child; For The Children

You’ll never know it.

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Posted on Nov 14, 2023

Song Of Palestine – The Mass Graves Of Gaza

Hauling in the fractured dead…

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Posted on Nov 12, 2023Nov 12, 2023

Song Of Palestine – When Does The Song End?

It doesn’t.

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Posted on Oct 29, 2023Oct 29, 2023

Song Of Palestine -قهر

Deep, cyclical, inherited, heart-gripping…

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Posted on Oct 26, 2023Oct 26, 2023

Song Of Palestine – The Land Between Them

The Great Sea waits.

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Posted on Oct 20, 2023

Song Of Palestine – Silence

I didn’t know; I didn’t try to know.

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Posted on Aug 31, 2023

Higger Tor

Heather blooms.

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Posted on Aug 7, 2023

Ol’ Charles Three

Flaunted.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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