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 Hole In The Ground
The centre of the forest waswell covered with thick brush.And all the trees were full of moss,the canopy looked lush.When from the left and from the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Happy Morn
A million little fishies swamwith happy faces over the dam.There, greeted by soft walls of rougeand buoyed by waves of her deluge.Hands clasped and..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Happy End
Oh, that your lovely flesh be there for mea thousand miles I must, on blood-stained bootshike through the corpses of man's hate for manand carry only..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Happy Birthday To Jerry - Poet Laureate ! ! !
And may I be permitted to includemy happy wishes for this aging dude?I've nothing but respect for him of course,but struth I feel the same about a..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Hanging
They hung him at the crack of Dawn.No big to-do, no time for folks to gather,a rope was taken from the man's own saddleand within minutes he was..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Great Teacher
All year I had behaved,with not a friggin' hairor sound of dissonancein sight for those who looked.But on that faithful morningwhen certain feelings..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Great Invention
Cantankerous she was, his wifeshe carried on her a sharp knife.And when the moon sent her a signor after a huge glass of wineshe'd hold the knife up..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Great Big Cover-Up
'Daddy, why is it that I have to go away,again to special school for dummiesand misbehavers, troublemakers,and the like, I know I am too muchfor you..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Grave
The lights go out on Bullcock Beach at night,gray as the past the waves come in to touch,a drifter without food and without sightgoes through the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Glimmer
The campus had been plaguedby much unrest and bigotry,there was the ROTC, pathetically,those closely cropped nitwittedand underhanded..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A German - English Poem
So ruhig fliesst der Rheinkein Fischlein denktkein Fischer lenktden Kahn fuer sich allein,ans Ufer treibt ihn nunder suesse Weinso soll es seinvom..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Future (Haiku)
Yes, the war for oilmany tempers on the boilstay on homeland soil.And soon it happensthat axis evil countriesblow up their neighbours.It is ordained..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Friend Is.....
A friend is one who is like me,or is it one who likes me much,and maybe someone you can touch?Perhaps a buddy who would bein all dark alleys in your..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Frican Gazelle
Well, my kids, in first grade learn to readwe are practicing daily, indeed.Said boy John I have tooka good look at the bookit's a zoobook, that much..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Freckle Remembered
A freckle on my Grandpa's nose,was prominent, but I supposeit did not bother him in life.Though Grandma, who had been his wifefor fifty years in..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Fragile Thing
He was a stickler,and spent his day in search ofher little tickler.She said dear fellowyour dipstick is too scrawny,and soft as Jell-O.He nodded..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Four-Leaf Haiku
He was a stickler,and spent his day in search ofher little tickler.She said dear fellowyour dipstick is too scrawny,and soft as Jell-O.He nodded..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Force
She was a force that dwelledin darkness, far away from God,a pool of syrup, red and self-propelledannounced her presence, which was somehow..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Fishy Story
A trout who swam in murky waterssurrounded there by sons and daughters,developed on a sunny daya toothache, causing him dismay.This pain was, as you..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Fire
It was so fulminating.A fire burned withinfrom spindly kindlingand a breath of airit sprang to lifeconsuming obstaclesand dull objectionsand stark..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Fine Sunday It Turned Out To Be
She sat there in my Haines,reading Oliver Sacks to me.While I, not being the literal kind,this fine morning, I stareddiscreetly, needless to say,at..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Few Of Us
Each one of us thinks greatness haswithout much open razzmatazzbeen resident within our minds.So when we sit on our behindssheer brilliance leaves..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Feather For Poverty
I do not care how much they wouldgive to buy me if they could.I am poor and often starving,desperately, slowly carvingmy own way through this shady..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Favour Sweetheart
I am aware thatthis is askinga bit too much.Perhaps it isjust little me,so out-of-linethat I am pastall shame now,no embarrassmentcan get to meonly..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Family
Her father was a smart dyslexicbut she was thin and anorexic.The mother had a bad addictionto gambling in her jurisdiction.One brother used..
© Herbert Nehrlich