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").
Chase On New Year's Eve
The snow had started at noon.It was New Year's Eve again,another year down the drain.My new toy, metallic blue, ABS,all the fruit, the salesman..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Chase
There once was a student named Chase.He could never diminish his pace.As an athlete he aimedto be winning, not framedso he made it at last to first..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Charity's Pocket
He reached deep insidebecause here was a humandestitute and close to death.Sadly, his hand returned empty,he had not been able to sparewithout..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Charity
A God, in a position to do sohas offered somethingquite attractive and desirable.It turns out to be freeand has no strings attached.So, I declined.I..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Changing Spots
A leopard who was fond of miceand claimed to have no other vicewas killed by a rhinoceros,which really wasn't a great lossbecause the jungle was well..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Change Of Moods
The grocer usually avoids,he does not treasure arguments.Though yesterday he spoke,what has, dear Sir happened to you?You were marked down inside my..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Chance Encounter
So, come look at me,let me breathe in your sweetness,as I marvel at beauty that should not exist.As you dance with mein the wind and the weather,I..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Chambre Chaleureux
Hazel or green,I did not takethe time to ascertain(admittedly these wordsare to impress) ,which of the twoclaimed for itselfthat hueof..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Challenge Response Rhymes
In the morning I saw Fred Astaire.A bit later I went to the Fair,they were talking about Tony Blairhow he told the old Prez they would sharehow his..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Challenge - A Sonja Limerick
A girl by the name of Sonjaasked me 'do you have them on ya'wants to see every poemis just dying to know 'emshe is travelling to Estonia.
© Herbert Nehrlich
Cemetery Dreams (Haiku)
When you see robbersbehind each scrawny cedarit's paranoia.And when you fathomthat homocysteine isout of the bibleand that a gangsterwho fooled the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Cedric Didn'T Fly South
In Europe, all the feathered friendsget ready when the summer endsto fly themselves to Italy,away from winter misery.A flock of sparrows soon were..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Cedar Avenue Bridge
'And would you', said the lovely maidenin Minnesota's early hours,where in deep snow moonlight was fading,'come up and have a drink, your flowersdo..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Caves
There were so many,they hung their headsas if in shameand swayed, unnoticedbuoyed by the stalenessof belated centuriesand, by and by they drippedonto..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Caveman
Inside a dark and silent cavehe heard the sounds of pain,he'd ventured far, a man so brave,had thought it a small drain.Without a sound small geysers..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Cats
I do not like them, not at all.Their feline nature drives me mad,in Summer, Winter, Spring and Fallour cat, named Lucy made me sad.She had the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Cathy
She was so bloomin' young!And blooming truly is the word.I smelled the innocence at once,while focusing my longing eyesupon her milky white and..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Catherine
She was, it must be said, proportional,if you, my feathered friends know what I mean.Inside her cranium though things looked distortional,there was a..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Cath
When he did not returnfrom an errand that day,she accepted the eyelash invitationof the piano playerto sit on his lap.And that was all there was to..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Cataract
A gleaming scalpel in his handgloved left hand on the thymus gland.He slices with extreme precisionthe pupil's frontal third division.Leaves just..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Cat Among The Pigeons
An alley cat with scruffy hairgot into the old pigeon house.And all it wanted was its shareof pigeon meat, because a mousewas such a bore and pretty..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Cat
When the storm cameand the lights went out,my cat left.Never to return.I had always fed her, though.
© Herbert Nehrlich
Castles
I felt so tired of the hassle,that seemed to fall down from the sky.That's why I built a lovely castleof sand right on my beach nearby.I took great..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Carpal Tunnel
At first you note a tightness andyour grip has lost its youth.It comes and goes, at last it staysyou ask for diagnosis.'Oh, Carpal Tunnel', so they..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Carol
Hot pokers fell into my well.She wrote!It's been so many moons.She took my blood,and analysed it all.Those were the days,she had the expertise,the..
© Herbert Nehrlich