I am loath to the idea of having business cards but it has been pressed onto me many times to have them.

In the interest of making them less business-y, each one has a little poem on the back.

These are the collection.



John Sherrill John Sherrill

a piece of time with

a bit of spring that

couldn’t stay

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John Sherrill John Sherrill

God bless the children.

God bless us all.

Will we take the blessing

Or curse what we deserve?

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John Sherrill John Sherrill

A familiar place.

But the time was not before.

Summer heat threatens.

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John Sherrill John Sherrill

Up early.

Before the world needs me.

Before the world wants me.

Gibbous moon

setting in the night.

Shift change.

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John Sherrill John Sherrill

Another question:

Last year that tree was beautiful.

This year, will it bloom?

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John Sherrill John Sherrill

dogwood dogwood tree

one day you will be

naught but rotten wood

lying where you stood

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John Sherrill John Sherrill

Today just began.

All it’s surprises unfound.

I hope one is you.

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John Sherrill John Sherrill

i’m never ready

when my life

and your life

meet

i practice each spring

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John Sherrill John Sherrill

not old but not young

this gig won’t last forever

how many more springs?

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John Sherrill John Sherrill

Sometimes

I think about line

breaks. You really mean them or

Y’all just messing with

me?

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John Sherrill John Sherrill

5, 7, and 5

the standard haiku format

i don’t know man…

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John Sherrill John Sherrill

the day of my birth

again, i don’t deserve it

flowers bloom just cause

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american robin

black-capped chickadee, i think

sing and fly and love

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John Sherrill John Sherrill

april has a way

inviting all to summer

today it is cold

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John Sherrill John Sherrill

we all must labor

in one form or another.

find the torture

that comforts you.

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John Sherrill John Sherrill

What to do today?

For each choice, a flower bud.

I would like to love.

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John Sherrill John Sherrill

jesus has given

something, someone once told me

i think it’s springtime

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John Sherrill John Sherrill

i will become myself.

though i have been another,

i will be my proverb.

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John Sherrill John Sherrill

grass is growing now

it waited beneath the snow

so patiently

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John Sherrill John Sherrill

everyday i wake

i will write new words for you

perhaps spring will come

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