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").

Carnivores

Flesh-eating animalsdon't get fat.They would not be ableto hunt.Flesh-eating bacteriado get fat.They would eat much lessif they remained thin.

© Herbert Nehrlich

Carnal

He knew the term from adolescence,had never tasted it due to benignbut earthen scents of ripened spuds,he savoured all once all the clouds had..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Cardiomegaly? Really?

Each day I wake and shuffle tofirst to the switch and then the loo.While the computer whirrs and humsI cross my fingers and my thumbs.But, hey, she..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Car Theft

Drivin' away in my automobile,taking a corner a little too fastchuckling loudly about the great deal300 horses oh what a sweet blast.Coppers are..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Canine Clock

At six-eleven, precisely,she wakes, first stretches,then yawns and marchesto the back door.To do her 'business'out in the worldof toads and..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Cancer

It's the wordto fear,more thanfear itself.Much more.Billions spent,trillions sought,findinga cure.Soon,if you help.Getting evercloser,now..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Canadians

A handsome, male, Canadian Goosehad, since that morning, rather looseand frequent bouts of very runny......you know, and no, it wasn't funnynow let..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Can You Spare A Dime?

Oh Bro, can you spare a dime?I need to get some soup and breadto feed my brain so it can rhymethere is a glut inside my headof words and letters..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Camilla And Charles

Oh, what a dream it was!I had been standing idlyat the gate called Buckingham,the Palace was engulfedin British Dew, so graywhen suddenly, how..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Camera..... Action....Roll....

She was curled up on her mattress loosely covered by a sheet,crimson rivers staining alabaster skin,through French windows peeked a moon through..

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Camels

A camel is a wondrous horseit finds its way through dunesit's really not a horse of coursenor is it a raccoon.Some ignorants say camels dostore water..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Camellia

Her name was Camellia Sinensis,she lived inside a modest hutin Eastern India, the Darjiling.Once a great hunting groundwith fossil bones on barren..

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Calling Poet Eitel

There once was a soldier named Keitelwho was unaware of Poet Eitelshe would usually failto look in on her mailI am calling the poet named Eitel.

© Herbert Nehrlich

Callgirl

I saw her shadow first,that Sunday afternoon,'twas luck the bus was latethere was no better sightthe length of Hennepin.A man, looked like a..

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Cain's Punishment

Inside the church he did his sum,the wine, in flasks, a large caraffe,but treponema pallidumwould soon have others get their laugh.No cure could be..

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Caffeine

The German chemist, name was Runge, did discoverwhat is today the recreation drug of note.He had been burdened by a rather frigid loverand any..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Cafeteria Jello

I was ashamed to be the jelloof the cafeteria kind.And no amount of shaking didor would (so I was told)catch your idiosyncratic tongue.So there was..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Cacatum Non Est Pictum

Page eleven,word correction,erratum.......Cacatum.Actor, femalea bit passéby now,name's Tatum........Cacatum.Accumulatedgases in the gutescaping..

© Herbert Nehrlich

C.A. - A Disease

It looks a bit like low fat cottage cheese,stuck in the mucous folds, and turning bad,the odour reminiscent of a snotty sneezeor unwashed hose..

© Herbert Nehrlich

C****

So turn your foot,retreat your steps,there's only darkness here,feel deep inside your quadricepsyour guardian angel, do not fear,your world could..

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C O Two

So many idiots, such much hype,the world is dumb, mischief is ripe.A bunch of loonies did decidethat global warming, far and wideis caused by stuff..

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Byron

'Size matters', the midwife said,he weighed two pounds or less,about the size of a big chunkof butter freshly churned that day.'No chance at all'..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Bylaws

He was an altruistthough didn't knowthe meaning of the word.Gave fruits and vegetablesas well as honey,gratisto all who wandered by,his garden was..

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Bye, Bye To American Pie

Bye, bye, oh my, to freaks like fryI may be gone tomorrow,I hear the great communal sighwhich signifies such sorrow,but I don't likethose filthy..

© Herbert Nehrlich

By Definition

You see in troubled skies abovebizarre-edged Ebenezer clouds,a fluffy-feathered steel-gray dovejust soaring into distant doubts.And ask yourself just..

© Herbert Nehrlich