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").
A Turn-On
I know about perception, yours.you always seem to knowwhen impulses descenddown from my brain right to the endwhere eager nerves feed aging..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Trojan Horse
He was the first to climb inside,a trap door just beneath the tail,only skinny warriors apply,though all, even the fat oneswere in awe over the very..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Tough Pussycat
They got the job that summer,house-sitting in the Siskiyous.Among the Ponderosa Pinesand squirrels, bushy-tailed,bright-eyed and Oregonean.The owner..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Tooth Fairytale (Revised)
The plane touched down at LAX.I'd nursed that tooth since graduation.And I had hoped that the old Hex,which might affect my presentation,would show..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Toad
A toad sat on a railroad trackand polished there his scales.He could not reach his centre backwith his long fingernails.He found a hammer and drove..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Thrum
As all those parts made up a sumto be admired or ignoredhe heard a faint soprano humlow instincts told him he had scored.He wrote a poem, fourteen..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Thing Called Love (By Rachel)
This love affair is in the brainIt does not show itself outside.Does it exist? It can't be provedIn any ordinary way.Unusual standards come to..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Thief Born Early
Two boys, both blond and blue of eyewere playing at the Lorelei.As foreign ships passed near the cliffbold flags in morning frost were stiff.The..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Taste
Once you have tasted milk and honeyyour buds are in a state of bliss.Your world has suddenly turned sunny,your lips remembering the kiss.The..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Surgeon's Sonnet And A Response
By Surgeon Pui NgToo soon the curtain of this stage will riseWell trained am I and in this role well versedIn readiness again I don my guiseYet fear..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Stroll
Two horses and a cow were walkingabout the Christmas season talking.Says horse named Clyde 'I am so bigI'll break the biggest baddest twigoff of the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Strange Teacher
A teacher I adored and loved,was seen last evening, when he shovedillegally and with much force,an object into a big horse.The horse objected, he..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Starry Night
It was as if the skieshad kissed this Mother Earthso that her sparkling eyesgave rise to precious birth.A breeze drifts through the fields,tall..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Soldier Returned
The year was nineteen forty six.A somber facedand moist-of-eyedear unclerevealed the truth,only to one,his wife.They'd marriedthe year beforewhen he..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Small Mountain
It is an organ, albeit small,protruding, as it does,a tiny knob.At home it is on minor lips,more secrets well concealedinside a shroud.Its raison..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Small Leak
Eight inches of warm rainpoured down as if the endof drought were in the cards.A tiny spot of mould appearedabove my place in slumberlandperhaps a..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Small Forgetmenot
I'd managed to traversethe river of indifference,and climbed the muddy banksuntil I stood beneath the canopyof trees whose majesty surprised,they..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Silence Most Foul
As Malice rears her ugly headit's clear that justice must be dead.What once did seem a friendly placereminds me of a botoxed face,no voice, no sign..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Sense Of Justice
A timid boy, that's what he was.A nerd in school, though into sports,observing all his hometown lawsbut drifting laterally, of sorts.His senses had..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Risqué Lullaby For A Resident Poet
I once knew a ballerinashe had flown in from Argentinashe liked playing my fluteand was udderly cutethough I stick with the real Gina.
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Righteous Death
Kidneys packing it in,fluid on the lungs,congestive heart failure,cognitive breakdown,prolonging means money.Who makes it, that dreadeddecision..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Response Poem 2
........and there it was, the cracknot of dawn but of Dawn herself,with a tuft of hair, a burning bushin the sunlight's reflection, bristling,a Moses..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Response Poem
The whistle of the evening traintwo giant puffs of snow-white steamso reminiscent of the Chinese Dragon,accelerating through the melancholy ofspindly..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Quiet Mind
Perpetually restless,The eyes cannot seeOr appreciate anyBeauty, properly.So with the mind's pace.The eye of the soul needsTo rise up in..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Question Not For Me
For days on end I wondered,about the way the world decideswho of the chosen few will bethe one to hold her little hands,and squeeze the rosy..
© Herbert Nehrlich