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Bridget
@8rid6et.bsky.social
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Virginia Writers Project. Poems in Anodyne Vol 6, Maintenant 19, Oddball Mag, Gaslamp Pulp Vol 2, Juste Milieu zine & more 🐕
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have another
glass of water
shamrock flower

#haiku #senryu
A sad potted green shamrock blooms delicate white flowers after being watered
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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#poetry #micropoetry #autumn #robertfrost #fall #gingko #virginia
A yellow dog with hazel eyes, with a gold ribbon and a purple collar on her neck stands looking at an angle past the camera in a grassy area covered in gingko leaves. The poem reads: I might have let her Off her leash that day But in the gingko grove Mellowed by the yellow trove I heard Robert frost say Nothing gold can stay
November 12, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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once summer’s shade
now winter’s blanket
I trust my instincts

#haiku #senryu #fallcolors #gold #autumn #season #gingko #virginia
Looking up at two giant gingko trees, their light green leaves turning yellow against a robins egg blue sky in early autumn Deeper gold color as leaves start to carpet the forest floor in November in a seemingly endless grove of meticulously planted symmetrical rows of mature gingko. Spots of sunlight reach the ground through the canopy. A few people in the distance walking
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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a kiss
before I go to slumber
and to snow

#haiku #senryu #autumn #fall
red mandevillia flower opening, waited until I brought it inside for the winter to bloom
November 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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fresh faced
I remembered
save the best for last

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warm blanket of leaves
tucking in perennials
for a long cold sleep

#haiku #senryu #autumn #mums
hot pink chrysanthemums with bright yellow centers bloom through the fallen brown redbud leaves
November 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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early November
the remaining raspberries
make their own sorbet

#haiku #senryu #fall #gardening
Ripe Red raspberry in green raspberry bush leaves
November 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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stubby the squirrel
that he’s doing just fine
only half the tale

#haiku #senryu #dogs #pets
Yellow dog barks up at a squirrel in a tree from the leafy mulch. She is leashed, with a purple collar. Not pictured, the squirrel in question has short tail from a prior injury.
November 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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I’ll be reading my poem Homeland Insecurity, published in Maintenant 19 by @threeroomspress.bsky.social at the Virtual #Dada Festival, streaming live from their Facebook page Wednesday 11/5 at 7:30 pm est ✌️

#poetry #event
The photo is an ad for the Virtual Dada Festival hosted by Three Rooms Press featuring artists from Maintenant 19. The event will be streamed live on Facebook 11/5 at 7:30 pm est
November 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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born into death
barely even alive
the future has gills

#haiku #senryu #scifaiku #fungi
#autumn #fall #mushroom
Gilled brown mushrooms among brown leaves almost hidden from view
November 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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🩸Blood🩸

Originally published by @anodynemag.bsky.social in vol. 6 along with other #flinta authors with #body related work, available at anodynemag.com

#PoemsAbout #Blood
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Bleed out into a pad of finely woven sheep’s wool for the 3rd time in 45 days, after 60 days of not bleeding never knowing I will feel more animalistic each time Like the lamb, I have no say in this sacrifice soaking into the sheep’s wool, I relax my less human body exchanging my life blood is a comfort and a sorrow energy flows both ways: in and out, then all out I rinse my blood away in earth cold water like every woman who ever stood in a rainstorm fed stream in a bubbling brook, washing anything For all of eternity, washing away my youth the stain of womanhood. I am an imperfect circle just like everything else that is wild
October 31, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Trick or treat? Typo, or creative wordplay? No one will ever know. Mwuahahaha 🎃😈🪾
A screenshot of the definition of “hollow”
October 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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England lost battles
while English ivy
won the war

#haiku #senryu
Green English ivy dominates a stone wall. A single vine of Virginia creeper towards the right of the frame stands out in red fall color.
October 31, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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if I could talk
instead of bark
I’d simply ask
if you’d walk me to the park

#quatrain #poetry #rhyme #pets #dogs
Yellow dog with white fur on her chest and toes and white and pink on her nose. She lays on a gray blanket on her stomach facing the camera with her front paws crossed. She looks at the camera. She is wearing a light purple collar. Behind her is a radiator and a window, and it looks like a nice day outside.
October 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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when you go out
in the woods today, beware
osage oranges

#hedgeapple #uglyfruit #haiku #senryu #lookup
Close up of yellow-green hedge apples on the ground in brown leaves and green weeds. Wirestock image.
October 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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beach grass
how my hair feels
on vacation

#haiku #senryu
Close up on tall scrub grass in bloom, it looks dry, frizzy at the ends, almost straw. It’s green fades to gold. Behind, tall pines and blue sky.
October 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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I stayed for four nights
on a houseboat days later
it still swayed with me

#senryu #rocking #water #poetry
Looking down a row of identical houseboats on the left and right out to the end of the pier. Some lights are visible across the bay from the pier. The houseboats in the foreground are floating on canoe shaped pontoons and their screen porches are visible. Red and green channel lights reflect off each houseboat showing ripples in the water and create an illusion that elongates the display.
October 14, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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scattered pebbles
on the beach we are all
semi precious

#haiku #senryu
A close up picture of a sand on a beach. The sand is tan and fine, packed at the waterline. Pebbles of various sizes and colors throughout, pearly white, pink, gold, sienna brown, sparkling black. A small oyster shell and scallop shell among them.
October 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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goldenrod season
even clouds
migrate south

#haiku #senryu
Three fluffy white clouds in procession down a blue sky. Below, coastal bayside plains with goldenrod and wild grass waving between pools of water, a small sandy beach in tue distance.
October 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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loblolly pine
a whole forest full
of telephone poles

#haiku #senryu
Edge of a maritime forest of evergreens, and a grassy meadow. A pine in the foreground is dead and looks like a pole
October 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Church of the Pony

twice baptized
first by the bay
then by the moonlight

#haiku #senryu #chincoteague #easternshore
A one room building in a marsh attached to a dock. Two horse silhouettes on the front. Dolphin silhouettes on the railings. The sun sets behind. Flags fly.
October 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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all day at the beach
no shirt no shoes no service
no worries either

#haiku #senryu
A small seagull strolls down the beach
October 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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not sharing any
unsolicited advice
mums the word

#haiku #senryu
Purple and red mums Yellow mums Orange mums Red mums
October 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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around the fence and
just by chance I swear I saw
a grasshopper dance

#haiku #rhyme #senryu
A rather large grasshopper dances up and down on vinca vine against a white fence
September 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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poor old Washington
no more wooden teeth, and no
legs left to stand on

#senryu #dc #resist
Maybe an old oak obscuring the Washington monument
September 27, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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on the wharf
guarding the border between
us and them

#senryu #dc #resist
Blurry Border patrol in dc at the wharf, for no apparent reason
September 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM