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").
Teachers
Of all the many salient featuresof childhood I remember teachers.Right after birth you get attention,they cater to you, not to mentionfree food and..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Tax
He stepped into the gutter to retrievea coin of silver, round and light of weight,and scooped a chunk of dogshit with his sleeve'twas green, he..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Tasting Dough
She used an ancient wooden spoonand sang herself a Christmas tune.'Twas time to make that special cake,you stir it first and then you bake.However..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Tastebuds At The Time Of Death
A geezer by the name of Herrmannhad always in his life been German.He stayed, as many of them do,at home and not in Timbuktu.The time to die came in..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Tara's Daisies
It was a silly dream, needless to say.You died of a small bone stuck in your throat,all courtesy of a gray snapper, caught offshore.You were too..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Tara Is Smiling
Tara Is SmilingI walked around the market's islesand thought of Tara and her smiles.I took a chocolate off the shelfand had to smile as well..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Tara
And may I ask you now,to keep, as from todaya chair next to your bed?Reserved for me, of course,should ever come the timewhen darkness comesdressed..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Tangles
I'm sending you a kiss for eachthat came my way and I could reach.That makes a thousand now, with easebut could send a million please?Soon, if you're..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Tallebudgera - Revisited
Tallebudgera, my kind of town,a black community and sunburnt place.At night it is the 'roos and hairy wombatsthe daytime does belong to four-ex..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Tallebudgera
The town was calledTallebudgera, it's truethat those dilapidated shackshoused only Black Fellows.They'd taken over whenthe mine did fold, and..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Talent Hill
Of three make four and then comes fiveperhaps this place will come alive!The trouble with most poets isthey cannot re-create the fizzthe inner poet..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Talent
A poet wrote a lot of stuffbut no one liked to read it,yet he had judged it good enoughand that's how he succeeded.Some critics, quite..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Sylvester In The New Age
It was Sylvester,the scruffy cat,who peeked into the Bedroomof Desire.It hadnot been that longsince that fine daywhen one big doorwas closed with..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Switch
They found the body at the quarry's gate.The watchman had not seen what would have raisedhis ex-policeman's trained and sordid brain.He'd watched TV..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Sweetness Is Stickiness
I have this thing, you know.Passed down and caughtand chained to it as well.Hands must be cleanand hair brushed straightso that each one will bequite..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Sweet Velvet
It was the velvet, after all.Not that bony ass of yours,though I was o'r the moon,as you would know and did.I do, believe you me, so far away,think..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Sweet Mary - Sweet Laurie
Mary, born a little prehad some trouble breathing,also, nightly she would peeand she screamed while teething.In the private school she metLaurie from..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Sweaty Hands
Twin Cities, brought together through sheer need,St. Paul thought of himself as holier than thou.And Minna from the family of Polis took the leadshe..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Swastika
He dreamed about the swastika,it rose over America,the people thought it was too late,that Nazis now would rule their fate.The people, as is always..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Surprise
It was a morning like all the others,triste, weather cloudy, cold and blah,nothing on that stupid telly or the radio,no selection in the blasted..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Surface Tension
A rubber duck, of colour pinkwas having fun inside a sink.The water was enriched with soapwhich was suspended by a rope.The sink was near a pane of..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Supply And Demand
Our God invented pains and achesas well as those annoying breaks.What doctor would not talk of DOOMinside an empty waiting room?The madness of the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Supersede - Never Supercede
On days of abstinence I read.The total pages may exceedthe most insatiable need,yet tasks like this may antecede(which is the twin word to..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Sunrise Is At Seven !
As he rolls out of bed,cotton sheets tangledthe usual sense of urgencylike unwanted regurgitationawaits him with judgmental eyes.Shower too hot..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Sunday Night In The Kitchen
Yes, I am flattered,but not enoughto spare you, little shit,a roach of anycolour smells, and looksjust as disgusting,do not, please,try to persuadeor..
© Herbert Nehrlich