mercoledì 13 agosto 2025

My Summer Haiku at "Five Fleas"

So grateful to Roberta Beach Jacobson for posting my summer haiku at "Five Fleas" on the afternoon of August 11!    haikua ssp

venerdì 8 agosto 2025

Haiku by Bret Wooldridge

All rights of the texts presented here remain with the author.


snow globe

the barometer drops

at my approach


drop down menu

retelling my side of it

sans serif


cold snap

the puddle

installs a window


dappled sunlight

her red hair turning

on and off


diary

my cheap pen skips

a few details


Serengeti

still half in shadow

the sunlit zebra


gift wrap

the scissors glide

through snow flakes


performance review:

the supervisor misspells

"improvement"


MOMA

the rain in the painting

comes to a stop


Ford theater tour

the mirror John Wilkes Booth

straightened his tie in


blue denim sky

a contrail

unzipping it


door jamb

watching her

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n

d

r

e

s

s


night lobby

the escalator

dredging up darkness


glass elevator

we descend with

the snowflakes


so dangerous

it’s locked in a cage

human heart


incessant barking

at the end of the leash

haiku dogma


laundry day

bleach for the clothes

I sinned in


minor key blues

sounding slightly better

slightly out of tune


surrounded by antlers

her forest dream

shudders to an end

 

 

Bret lives on 40 acres of sagebrush in Northern Nevada. In addition to his haiku interests, he plays guitar for a country band and bumps around the desert in a 4WD.

 

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mercoledì 6 agosto 2025

My Spring Verse in "Hedgerow"

Many thanks to editor Caroline Skanne for including my haiku in Issue #149 of “Hedgerow: a journal of small poems”! haikua ssp

lunedì 4 agosto 2025

My Haiku at "Dawn Blossom Club"

Glad to share some of my haiku published at Dawn Blossom Club for the Bright Words Project, a series dedicated to literature that is inspired by positive feelings. Here you can read the rest. haikua ssp