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Posted on Aug 9, 2023

A Church Service At The Minster

Yesh’wa invoked ‘top heaps of plundered wealth…

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Posted on Jun 18, 2023

Yorkshire Lavender

A kestrel keeps, keen-sighted.

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Posted on Jun 14, 2023

Pool Bridge Poem

Tame jackdaw – Caw?! – on headtop.

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Posted on Apr 16, 2023

Written Somewhere Sunny In The North-East

A melody by the a-peeling bells.

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Posted on Feb 20, 2023

Time-Begotten

Hist’ry-layered.

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Posted on Jan 22, 2023

An Old York Sunset’s Scene-Song

New wetland frozen fast.

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Posted on Aug 12, 2022

At Shambles’ End

A-shambling through the queue.

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Posted on Aug 1, 2022

On York’s Waterway

Yah nough, don’t yuh?

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Posted on Aug 19, 2021Aug 19, 2021

An Encounter

Evening wander…

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Posted on Aug 14, 2021Aug 14, 2021

Merchant’s Hall Tanka

Brick bears beams bear rooftiles.

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Posted on Aug 13, 2021

Postcard Poetry

The stained-glass panes, that stretched to reach the heavens, shone.

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Posted on Aug 11, 2021Aug 25, 2021

A Sonnet To York’s Grand Cathedral

Sunfire shines glist’ning through the scriptured glass to light the southern rose ‘n Yorkshire’s heart!

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Posted on Aug 10, 2021

Scouting York

Bucolic ruins; gardens sloped – onward, t’ward streets cobbled!

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Posted on Aug 9, 2021

Amidst Amongst Around The North York Moors

A bird of prey, at hov’ring height, doth herald.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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