Bridget

@8rid6et

Poet, playwright, songwriter, ally, dog mom🐕

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Bridget@8rid6et· 7d

black petunias our midnight affair made public ♣️ a velvet dress on a summer afternoon black petunias #haiku #senryu

Black petunia in a basket with smaller coral and indigo flowers

Bridget@8rid6et· 8d

long and leggy black eyed Susan fell face first on the patio #haiku #senryu #haipun

Clusters of black eyed Susan in bloom. The long ones with small flowers are bent over laying on a flagstone path.

Bridget@8rid6et· 10d

🦋 the monarch with an heir apparent on milkweed vine 🐛 no kings, but with diplomacy, I welcome the monarch #haiku #senryu

📸 Via Merchant. A monarch butterfly on honeyvine milkweed.

Bridget@8rid6et· 15d

🥲 only crying happy tears weeping beech #haiku #senryu

A weeping beach branch extends from the neighbors yard over a white picket fence, its leaves wine and red. Below, greenery of hostas, trees, flowers and a flagstone path

Bridget@8rid6et· 18d

red zinnia there really is no poem #haiku #senryu

Red zinnia in focus at center with its cute yellow mini flowers in a crown around the middle. Different shades and shapes of pink zinnia surround.

Bridget@8rid6et· 21d

🌲 young cypress a summer balling before balding #haiku #senryu #haiga #micropoetry

Looking up through a young balding cypress tree sporting many round green pinecones. Blue sky and larger trees in the distance.

Bridget@8rid6et· Jul 3

🪒 high and tight a summer shave for cork oaks #haiku #senryu #haiga

A cork oak, bark shaved up to the bottoms of the branches. The wood underneath is redder than the grayish bark. In scrubland, source https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cork-oak-1.jpg.optimal.jpg

Bridget@8rid6et· Jun 30

🏖️ Pinea earth’s umbrella #monoku Pinea l’ombrello di terra #haiku #senryu #sardegna #italia

Pinea grove on the beach - in front of the dunes, looking like umbrellas with greenery only at the very top.

Pinea on the mountaintop, the only shade for miles

Bridget@8rid6et· Jun 28

🍳 breakfast for dinner tonight’s sunset over easy #haiku #senryu #italia #poesia #sardegna

Sun sets behind castlesardo, a crowded town on a mountain, the sky is red, sun looking like an egg yolk

Bridget@8rid6et· Jun 19

🏞️ My poem Winding Ridge, published by the Virginia Writers Project #poetry #borders #freedom #nature

WINDING RIDGE

Blue rolling hills waved me goodbye
I drove for hours and hours climbed a mountain up to the sky climbed back down to the river

Rockfish, catfish, crayfish

Climbed another mountain into the blue climbed back down into the gorge when I reached my destination
I was greeted by blue rolling hills

Rockfish, catfish, crayfish

By all accounts I'd crossed several borders don't bother asking rockfish, catfish or crayfish they know nothing about such things
the same river kept on flowing the whole way through

Bridget@8rid6et· Jun 19

That was hard! My first blackout poem, from a story about fishing, in a book written in the 30s. The Herring Shoal #blackoutpoetry #micropoetry

The cover of an old book, green, with a red eel, titled “fishes their journeys and migrations”

In the open North Sea
beneath greenish waves
Tossed by the swell

Herrings carefully mark opalescent water
diving every now and again
A large shoal spread over the surface itself

So through the night
a huge vertical wall with fine fishes
went their nocturnal ways

Bridget@8rid6et· Jun 18

🌬️ wind instruments winding up the valley an orchestration #haiku #senryu

Wind turbines on Dan’s Mountain Wind Farm in Allegany County MD. The green mountain below and blue cloudy sky above.

Stock photo from Clearwayenergy.com

Bridget@8rid6et· Jun 16

🍇 she is delicate but she wants to bloom #haiku #senryu

One lupine flower, showing light purple as it carefully unfolds in a sea of green leaves

Bridget@8rid6et· Jun 13

A baby haiku grows up to be three stanzas My poem Starling Telegraph, Published in the Virginia Writers Project spring 2026 journal 🐦‍⬛ #poetry #freeverse #haiku www.virginiawritersproject.com/journals-vwp

Starling Telegraph

No time to wait for sunrise
birds sing early morning calls to get their message through
before trucks and machines break the gentle quiet of dawn

Intricate messages of clicks and clucks, coos and cries
I'm no code breaker, no interpreter
just a witness, an observer from behind the glass

I count the seconds inside one bird's call and a response
measuring the distance between their souls
I can hear them growing closer
to each other

Bridget@8rid6et· Jun 9

take any chance you get to bloom #haiku #senryu #haiga #poem

A brown rosebud I plucked from the bush and tossed into the birdbath bloomed completely. A yellow jacket sips from the side, rocks piled in the center, hostas and various perennial greenery surrounds.

Bridget@8rid6et· Jun 8

spring heat wave the lupines on flower strike #haiku #senryu #climate

Bridget@8rid6et· Jun 7

🐦🌿 discount hanging fern the house finch on rent control #haiku #senryu

Looking down at a hanging fern. There is a tiny nest in the center with three small ivory, two pale blue, and one red speckled egg.

Bridget@8rid6et· Jun 5

shade gardening it’s now or never for the day lilies #haiku #senryu

Orange lilies line a stone wall. Oak leaf hydrangeas hanging down from the top of the wall.

Bridget@8rid6et· Jun 4

✈️ above the clouds the sky still blue #haiku #senryu

View of clouds out an airplane window. Sunrise on the horizon.

Bridget@8rid6et· Jun 1

🐾 in a dogpile we each have our own dreams #senryu #pets #dogs

Little Tri color hound dog puppy sleeps on blue and red blankets. All paws and ears.

Bridget@8rid6et· May 28

🐶🐕 Second dog the neighborhood crows have opinions 🐦‍⬛ #haiku #senryu #pets #dogs

A cute tricolor puppy at close up in a grassy yard, looking at the camera, panting. Behind him, yellow dog smiles like a proud big sister

Bridget@8rid6et· May 20

on the precipice we become rebels by chance #haiku #senryu #haiga

A tree clings to a cliff edge, above a gorge

Bridget@8rid6et· May 19

Beaver Valley they built a damn nuclear power plant #haiku #senryu #haiga

Aerial view of a fertile PA river valley, power plant cooling towers present in the river, mist hangs low in the blue valley and the sunrise casts an orange hue to the sky

Bridget@8rid6et· May 17

Ohio shale fractures often happen before falls #haiku #senryu

Paine falls, a double layer shale waterfall. A small blue metal bridge crosses above, a blue green pool below, rocks and greenery surround.

Bridget@8rid6et· May 13

🐦‍⬛ two by two, crows gathered in the poplar, one by one, they flew away #haiku #birds

Looking up at the tops of giant tulip polars on the left of the frame, bare, several crows are gathered and one flies off alone to the right, right side of the frame the sky is blue with third fluffy clouds

Bridget@8rid6et· May 10

🌟 like daydreaming I go stargazing all afternoon #haiku #senryu #spring

White star flowers above violet greenery in munch. 6 points on The flowers, some budding

Bridget@8rid6et· May 6

dignity intact after spring’s first hard pruning fists raised to the sky #haiku #senryu #spring

Crepe Myrtle’s in spring - just trunk and branches with large knuckles at the end of each branch where it’s pruned back to the same spot each year. On mulch wish spring bulbs. From https://oasislandscape.com/how-to-properly-prune-crape-myrtles/

Bridget@8rid6et· Apr 30

spring rain she holds her umbrella upside down #haiku #senryu #spring #blooms

Spring starflower cluster, white with yellow stamen. Closed upwards in the rain. Surrounded by green violet foliage.

Bridget@8rid6et· Apr 23

🪧 Briars and vines we have always said keep out #senryu #haiga

A mess of thorny things, green and brown

Bridget@8rid6et· Apr 14

🍺 low water line the draft on tap is drought #haiku #senryu