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").
The Aviator In The Sky
The Aviator In The Sky'Twas Saturday, folks would sleep inrecoup from days of toil,my hope rests with the next of kinto bring to a good boilthe water..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Avian Flu
The avian flu may worry you.I'd like to tell you what to do.The virus has not yet evolvedthey talk about a problem solvedif plenty money can be..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Autopsy
Blade number three,start cutting at the toesup past the kneesoon hit the Roman nose,the best of stainless steelskilled hands and steady nerveswill..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Attic Of My Mind
It's Saturday today, all day.I have big plans for things long due.I ask myself, what do you sayto tackling this, just me and you?I am a hoarder from..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Atheist And The Grizzly
An atheist strolled through the breeze.'What pretty flowers, handsome trees,what mighty rivers, awesome creaturesoh my, I love all Nature's..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Asylum
There once was a place for the folkswho would write little poems and jokes.And the place had its rulesboth for smartbums and foolsand for sheilas as..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Assembly On Fifty-Seventh Street
Down near the billboard,on fifty-seventh Street,right where it intersectswith fancy fifth Avenuethey met, quite late at nightunder the neon lights,in..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Assassination Of Obama
Obama, careful with your life,and with your daughters' and your wife,it's not the men with heavy gunsnor right wing fruits or crazy Huns,it's what..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Art Of Writing Limericks
A limerick can be rather funnywhen the syllables are on the money.But when none of it fitsit can give you the shitsWould you stop writing limericks..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Application
The new position was not advertised,however, knowing me you would have,by now, guessed that I applied. I did.It was for Monarch, Ruler..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Anatomy Lecturer
She placed his timid hand just where the collarbone protrudes,and lectured patiently about the pectorals, how they attach,monocled, framed by silver..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Ambulance Down In The Valley
A Fence or an Ambulanceby Joseph Malins (1895)-a poem about prevention -'Twas a dangerous cliff, as they freely confessed,though to walk near its..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Allergic Honeybee
A honeybee, (it was a she)sat in the Frangipani tree.She had been told to fly aroundjust seven metres off the groundthat way she would detect the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Alcoholic Of Sylivania
There is a placecalled Sylivania,named after silybum,the thistle of the milk.It's where the lawsof Physicsand of Chemistryas well as mostof what we..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Aftermath Begins
He had waited,though he was no patient man,the winter stormsgave way to early Spring,a silly hare regarded himwatched his descentinto the townthat..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Affair
My neighbour's wife had an affairwith our local judge,it seems that they would often sharea bed at Happy Lodge.Arriving in the dark of night,and to..
© Herbert Nehrlich
That Was Then!
How times have changed!I used to open letters from my girlso carefullyand touch the pre-licked gluejust lightly with my lips.Today, it's self-stick..
© Herbert Nehrlich
That Was Her
She had blue questionmarkscoming out of her blue eyes.Her lips were too blue for kissingand a blue-tongue lizard was her pet.As for me, I ended up..
© Herbert Nehrlich
That One
A geezer, white, of wrinkled skinpulled out all levers, just to win.He changed with every passing breezeand used his thank you's just to please.Saw..
© Herbert Nehrlich
That Last Bottle
It was, you said, your very last,and that you could, without a doubttake it or leave it, any time at all.Just a cute habit, acquired in your youthand..
© Herbert Nehrlich
That Godforsaken Day
She was, for many moons,the velvet cover of the portalsinside my heart, there was,majestically, the grand aorta,the mitral valve and then itslowly..
© Herbert Nehrlich
That First And Ach.....
Remember when,that day,rambunctious timeswere nothing newto me?Yet it took long,too longto taste that firstandach so fleeting kiss.
© Herbert Nehrlich
That Awful Noise
A bumblebee sat in a tree,held for himself a sermon.'I'm thrilled that I shall never bea friend of lowly vermin.They steal the eggs of busy birdsand..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Thanksgiving
They sat, all twenty one, like silent lambs.The church was cold and from the spire there were sounds,strung from the pulpit was a bunch of local..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Thanks, Sue!
To date it is uncertain whethermuch science can be penned at allby an Australian peacock feather;not that the feather would be smallbut from a bird..
© Herbert Nehrlich