Stating my Case

My writing is normally brief,
And mainly, rhyming is chief.
No matter your current belief,
It's sad if that brings you grief.

Art, while challenging to chart,
Enters us through ear and eye,
Makes us often laugh and cry,
And lingers in our heart.

It's spring: not only flowers, but the snakes come out too; #poetry #smallpoems #haiku #napowrimo #napowrimo25

http://sheri42.net/2025/04/12/did-you-see-him-jump/

You were yesterday
before you were today
and thinking about
this moment like
it would last forever.

I’m sorry for entropy
and enthalpy and any
influence that wasn’t
advocating forever.

Things have to go
somewhere. Still,
still can be good
if we just sit for
awhile, and pretend

#5amwritersclub #poetry #poet
#poetrycommunity #writer
#writingcommunity #poem
#poetrylovers #poems #amwriting #smallpoems

distance becomes myth
once lived

green booze sugar cubes
unfiltered cigarettes

everything on the table - hands
phone wallet notebook novel

doorways to beyonds
too easily abandoned

dregs in the glass
far away waiter

bemused between drinks
air gapped possibility

the bill or another
or something else

and all that sits beneath above
around each breath each blink

each squeezed blood thud
pen to paper to guide something somewhere

#SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 12 Apr 2025 - yonder

@dailyhaikuprompt #dailyhaikuprompt

Cut through frosted crust,
And inhale citrus heaven,
Lemon drizzle cake.

Where do you go to?
Every time I reach for you,
you are never there

I suspect you hide away,
so I can’t depend on you

Alert to the ripples, geese wait;
#poetry #haiku #smallpoems #napowrimo #napowrimo25

http://sheri42.net/2025/04/10/geese-wait/

a poem of strength, resilience, and hope; not my poem; #peace #sunflower #Ukraine by Viktor Kravchuk #sliceoflife #smallpoems

http://sheri42.net/2025/04/11/a-poem-of-resilience/

What is that growth on your rose bush? #poetry #haiku #smallpoems #napowrimo #napowrimo25 #wasp #gall #rose

http://sheri42.net/2025/04/11/sleepless-a-cure/

I wake to nightmares,
fever dreams I'd scarce believe,
yet my bank confirms

I remember
the first night
in that apartment,
that old brick building,
the way the Mill River
roared just outside
the window, as if
life were suddenly
moving on

#SmallPoems for #OpenWrite

https://www.ethicalela.com/i-remember/

soft breeze through branches
a bit of southern comfort
in the shade of oaks

#DailyHaikuPrompt - soft breeze

PHOTO
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/tree-song-black-and-white-photography-sharon-cummings.html

#oak #oaks #oaktree #tree #trees #treebranches #nature #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhiteart #Florida #southern #summer #summertime #poetry #poet #poem #poems #poets #writing #haiku #smallpoems #smallpoem #shortpoem #shortpoems #landscape #landscapephotography #landscapes #buyintoart by #SharonCummingsArt

@dailyhaikuprompt #dailyhaikuprompt
-Soft Breeze

Hairs gently rising,
Skin cooled in faint breath of air,
Felt behind closed eyes.

another tiny flower: the currant;

#poetry #haiku #smallpoems #napowrimo #napowrimo25

http://sheri42.net/2025/04/09/silenced/

Alluring graceful
she wandered trough the field of
yellow flower wealth

#MastoPrompt
#elegant
#dailyhaikuprompt
#Mustard

#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#SmallPoems
#writing
#photography

@stevencudahy
@dailyhaikuprompt

Yellow Flower Lady - Aobram

an early spring surprise: service berry blossoms; #poetry #haiku #smallpoems #napowrimo #napowrimo25

http://sheri42.net/2025/04/08/nature-listens/

long term memories
like the front door welcome mat
aged and weathered