Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
Concrete Jungle
In the sweet month of April when the clover turns greenand the fox and the wolf go a-hunting again,is the life of the hare not worth MUCH, is it..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Con Games
The latest hope is in the newsprevention of a killing spree,achieved by a new golden goosecalled C-reactive, C-RP.With bumbling idiots to guardthe..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Computersprew
Each computer is home to a mouse.And the mouse shares the owner's own house.If the mouse were a catwith long claws and all thatshe'd compete with the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Compliments
A fisherman goes out to fishhis wife cooks up a fishy dish.Do not forget the lowly wormwho wiggles but stays rather firmwithout the worm the fish..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Competition?
Lay the cards on the tableall you poets unableto create a good rhyme.It is surely no crimebut it should be admittedwhen you write those..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Communism
There lived, with thirteen other hoodsa guy named Robin in the woods.They had devised the clever planto rob each unescorted man,and took the riches..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Coming Home
It had been overcastforever, in God's own country.That's what you said it waswhen you lured me, to seeto climb the Spaceneedle,and look at the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Coming Down Now
It was a long way down,not all of us had that farand to go into such turbulence,what did not help at all wasthat snowflakes naturally arenot what you..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Comfort Zone
When others stand too close to me,and box me in, invade my space,I've always thought one must be freeof pests that like to take one's placeand spread..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Come Smile At Me Again
Come smile at mecome smile at me again.And use the only smile you have,the selfless and exquisite one.And keep your eyes on me.I'd like to studythe..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Come In?
She calls it contemplative, and,so do the kids, they know,from countless years of course.It's when I daydream right at fivethe happy hour, when I..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Come Closer Now
I am so far from you today,would you consider taking partin what they give you, for supportthe coffers of the bureaucratsand stay at home, with me?I..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Colours
There once was a boy with three ears,he was white and well known to his peers.To the south side of townwhere the pigment was brown..they could care..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Colorado Boots
A pair of Colorado bootswere walking over bracken roots.Wild pigs had covered the terrainand caused the bracken so much pain.They would be..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Cold Blood
........and from the river bed emergeda mermaid of astounding features.I wondered whether she'd been urgedto leave the underwater creatures.She could..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Coincidence
Another strange coincidencesaid George while sitting on the fence.He sat there, dreaming on most daysand watched the heteros and gayswalk past to..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Coffin Nails For Dummies
I knew you had a craving for,they told me at the ward,the MRI was inconclusive, thoughthey said that you were,and rightly so perhaps,quite..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Cocky
A woman's job it is to gatherthe eggs at dawn on our farm,while hubby whips up shaving latherand grandma keeps the woodstove warm.The rooster sounds..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Cobwebs Are Old
Pulling one footout of the printer,the other staysmired in ink,whereas the face,ah, yes, the facewill now surge forwardand shine uponwhat you would..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Coarse
'Coarse', she said,it's always been,and both the same.I think it may bea racial thing.'So, do you like? 'I did not likeand in the endwe..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Clouds
A cloud of colours and hot airresembled a large Bosco pear.It floated effortlessly throughthe atmosphere above the dew.Observing people, far and..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Cloudface
It was expected that I lookup to the sky, this holy day.Stared back a cirrus cloudall puffed and full of pride.A face was evident and well aglowif it..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Close We Were Meant To Be
Gods sat in bamboo chairs and madestrange gestures, man is so afraidhe lacks esteem, his mind is oddhe longs yet cannot be a god.Man looks to the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Close Call - Saved By Amygdala
I am not an overly religious man,although the pope hails from adjoining fields.Today, however, on the beach I ran.Aerobic fitness such behaviour..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Close Call
The sign said 'Liege'.A smelly town in proper Belgium.The stop was short,much distance lay ahead.I parked the bikeon its pedestalright near the..
© Herbert Nehrlich