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 Familiar Song
I was just browsing,looking, searching my soulfound but a beautiful girl.Yes you were pretty,yes you were richbut you were not for me.You sent me..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Faceless God
And there appearedwithout a warninga break within the cloudsthat had remained,so heavy and so lowall week, as all HIS peoplewent on about the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Duty Now To Die
They'd badgered him, the family,to go and have the tests, since, after all,one needed to take all that modern medicineand science had to offer to..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Dull Featherweight
There are those who will always stoop lowas they're smarting still from the last blow.Fabrication? It suitswalk in somebody's boots?Not for those..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Down Under Itch
There once was a fellow named Pap,he was Greek but alazy old chap.While his hand was insideof his Inuit bridehe said, something in here is on tap.And..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Dire Emergency
It was a dire emergency,something no frog appreciates.A stork, his home a fancy neston top of the red-tiled roof,had stabbed his hungry beakinto the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Dilemma
It is so sadwhen claritygives way tofrank befuddlement.It is the brainthat cries for help.In dire need of nutrientsthat are not presentin daily meals..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Different Path
Who, in his dreams or musings would have thoughta path, though narrow, through the jungle weaved,a voice inside kept singing, yes, we oughtset foot..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Devil Called Hurricane
So many facesthis turbulent devilpossesses,seemingly,without logic,or justiceor fair-play...it strikes.And maims,even killswith abandonand deadly..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Decent Bird Flu Would Be Dandy Right Now
Friends, this isNO JOKE.We areCLEARLYfacing a verydedicatedgovernment effortto triggeran Avian Flupandemic throughexperimentationwith live avian..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Death Notice
A letter from a friendarrived today.Tidbits of news,the local floodand all resultsof football matches.A clipping fellfrom in betweenthe pages,it..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Day In The Life Of God
God had some time, it always did turn out that way,before his lunch which was the highlight of the day.He'd twiddle fingers, thumbs, of each he had..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Day In The Life Of A New Yorker
There once was a fellow named Stronghe grew tentacles fifteen feet long.when they put him in jailhe said, let me post bailand he sold his own soul..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Critic's Fate
The officer who would not like the name of borderguard,took his green passport, open at the photo page.Flipping his fingers while one eye was kept on..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Crash
She'd fiddled with her face,applied a half a poundof beige foundation fromLa Maison de Charleroi,two hefty blasts of bland déodorant,smothered two..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Cranka
Be stupid, helpless and blandit will, most unfailinglylet only God understand.Help not, love not, have no smilesHe will keep you companyfor thousands..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Commentary
The infantile word 'infantile'brings up in me a bit of bile.The other word (he called it boring)reminds me of him never scoringin posting something..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Cock Named Elsevier
A cockatoo named Elsevierhad sipped some of his master's beer.The alcohol had warmed his heart,he thought it would be very smartto raid the Bar for..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Christopher Marlowe Poem
Come live with me and be my love,And we will all the pleasures proveThat valleys, groves, hills, and fields,Woods or steepy mountain yields.And we..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Choice
The lady was hysterical.Two dogs on bloodysleeveless arms.Both looked near death.The foaming ofthe natural reactionto bites fromdeadly snakeshad well..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Chip On His Humpback
His father was a gentlemanhis mother was a muttthe offspring is a little mana gentleman he's not.He was in stature really tinyand had a big..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Case Of Having A Need To Know
He questioned them (a need to know) ,about the prospect of belowand whether it would cost too muchto choose the common way, as such.He did not have..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Canadian
Since I had just arrivedfrom foreign shoreswhere men are shyand women tease,I halted briefly at the duneand looked straight intothe Southern sun.You..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Business Deal
Things did look good,the reasonablenesswas palpable that day.Only that fellow Murphyand his blasted Lawhad infiltrated the territoryand breached..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Bumblebee's Sweet Destiny
A bumblebee had hitched a rideby hanging on the starboard sideof Russia's pride, the Aeroflotright near the engine where it's hot.The captain got her..
© Herbert Nehrlich