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").
Sunday At The Cemetery
1 Here lies our country's biggest nerd,his death was a surprise.He never said a nasty wordnor anything too wise.2 Aunt Lilly filled this wooden..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Sunday Afternoons
I like my Sundays,most of all the afternoons.When the same visitorscome around four,Mr. Glen Fittock, suit and tiea Gentleman named Jackwho lives..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Sun And Moon (Half-Grown Children)
The sun got up and saw the moon.'Why are you out of bed so soon? ''It is because a moon's requiredto light the way when you've retiredinto your bed..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Summer Rain
I woke too late,your sunburnt cheeks,tomato red,sand clingingto your hairless legs,reflectingfrom ten painted toes;a tiny tuft,now out of place.The..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Sugar And Spice And Fourteen Blind Mice
Sugar and Spice and fourteen blind micesat in a room way up in the barn.the name of the cat was Sugar and Spicefourteen blind mice, they were..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Sudden
He loved those ankles,tight skin andthe tiniest tuft of golden,sun-bleached hair,a promise of sorts,though there wererivulets of sweatrunning down..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Styrofoam
A bull who was a trifle boredand tired to see humans gored,had wandered through the market squareinhaling, as he went, the air.A sign caught his now..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Stuffy Nose
Use three percent peroxide, dearfirst in the nose, then in the ear.Those nasty germs will run and scatterand from the nostrils greenish mattershall..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Stuffy Liars
There once was a stuffy old manthese old geezers do think that they canspread nasty old rumoursjust like rotting black tumoursthey were listed as..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Studies
I have perused anatomyand studied it with energyit brought me so much miseryI thought it really hated me.I switched then to psychiatryand learned why..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Student Days
From Stachus home,at five, in time for dinnerthe Fall Of Romehad been the lecture of the day,with all this learningI's surely getting thinner...I..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Stripes
We've earned our stripes,learned all the skillsof laundry workers andaccounting 101, to ascertainthat nought is left behindto shoot an arrow into..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Striped Pyjamas
I laughed at you.You both were in pyjamas,striped like a prison suitand baggy at the top.I had my Sony aimed at youa toy that would recordand..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Strike
The hall was crowded,a hum transcendedblue collar whiffand music drifting infrom the last vesselto arrive. Deserted docksin silence, rough handshad..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Stressed?
I thank you all, I'm surely blessedthough from the waiting somewhat stressed.I note that one will get undressed,surprising though that she..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Strawberry Wine
The river never slowed,for serendipity or love.They sat, a mile aparton muddy ground, aliveand hoping for a signfrom Him, abovethat would bring..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Stratford
At Stratford the poets were meeting,there was laughter and (doubtless) some bleating.Though bad tongues did confessthat some stripped off their..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Strange Vibes
Only a dingo and Germaine,a jackass, maybe twoconsumed by sheer unhappinessand shining inferioritydisrupted what they sawas dark satanic rites.Their..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Store Detective
The elevator stopped to beep.Two girls got in, they were alone.One mentioned 'underwear' and 'creep'in slightly hushed, embarrassed tone.Quick..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Stones
The day you're born the midwife saysMilestones.Your father rests his head in hospital,Milestones.Your kids get married, grandkids come,Milestones.You..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Stockbroker
I'm sitting on a window sillwith one foot out the door.I wonder if they ever willrelay me all the score.The market has just finished meI traded in my..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Still The One
I actually did brush my teeth,only to return to a still warm bed,she's attending that wedding,so far away I could have,but won't, a companion..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Still Debating The Recalcitrants
It's always good to stand your groundin matters freely stated,though difficult to turn aroundwhen egos are inflated.I hope you do not mind my..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Stew
A hippo chickwith walking stickand hippie chookwere stalking Wook.The Chinamannamed Mein-a-chenand lying Krautwere crying loudSo who has stirredthis..
© Herbert Nehrlich