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").
So What? !
He woke, a bit too earlyon that Saturday in May.And could no longer fightthe smoke-filled fact ofwhat others had already seenso long ago. The..
© Herbert Nehrlich
So Come
I step into the meadow gingerly,though heavy are my feet from grief,wild things surround me, starsdrift in, like teenage boys, the sky,home to the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Snub (For My Blueberry)
There once was a man quite contenthe was well past his latter day Lent,he imagined his lifeas a single edged knifewhen one day he was stopped by a..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Snowflake
You called me by a novel name.I now am SNOWFLAKE, just to you.But snowflakes do not stay the samethey fall and turn into delicious dew.I'll galdly..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Snow At Last
Snowflakes, at last, and dancing gracefully,announcing, in the innocence of white,the season's purpose, its raison d'être.Yes, do, go to Hawaii..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Snow
The snow comes down so lilywhiteI wonder what it meansit is a most delicious sightI love those frosty scenes.And in a while I do supposeI'll build me..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Snot
A beetle sat upon a lampon Broadway in the morning damp.Enjoyed the traffic and the viewbut caught, from much exhaust, the flu.He coughed and..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Snicker, Snicker
If you snickerand bickerit pleasesyour ticker.Once a promiseis madethen a spadeis a spade.
© Herbert Nehrlich
Snails
Three snails hitched to a frying panwere pulling hard, they had a plan.The frying pan was solid steelsaid number one snail, yes a wheelwould be the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Snail Male
Snail MaleHe was a patient man,there never seemed to be a needto rush around,he was no chickenand preferred a slimy snailmuch to a rabbitfor..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Smoke Machine
I had a dream last night.It was a dream in vivid colours.A satisfying dream.A dream of justice andrighteousness.So, here I stood,horsewhippinga..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Smitten
You sleep when I brush teeth and shavemy thoughts betray a rather bravebut timid boy beneath veneerwhose ears betray what he can hear.I picture you..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Sleepwalk
As if a man of mettlehad kissed the Mother Earthand that each velvet petalremembered still its birth.I walk through silent meadows,accompanied by..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Sleep Well, My Love
It came to mefromthe silent shadows,this wordthat hasits own inflectionjust for you:LOVE.Will you,when it reachesYOU,and if it touchesa special..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Sleep Well With Me
I lie behind you in our night,close, as your bum fits neatlyand so very sweetly, to me,my hands had been requestedby OUR pair of lovely Twins,again..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Sleep Well
I hope your dreams will help you restyour body needs it now.Although you are the cat's meoweven the best need rest.So, snuggle under silken sheetand..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Sleep Now, My Love
I place you,gentlyon your pillow,first on your back,the weather's cooled,a jumper would not domy sweet,you need to berelaxed and free,I pull the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Sleep My Lovely
I watch you, as you sleep,the glow, a rosy hueof Roman cheeks,a tiny trickle, as if gluedonto the crease of lipsso red and so inviting,your hands..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Slab
Viewed, oh my God,the Gift-O-The-Gabyellow-faced, oddon a cold marble slab.Face and sweet lipscyanide blue.Childbearing hipspraying for you.Wish I'd..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Skyline
And on the beach todayI saw an eagle.Was flying in from just above the waves.And, when he saw me hebegan to shout.His voice was swelling with,what..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Size Isn'T All
She was exceedingly flat.No fruit or other ediblecould be used to describe,in interpretative comparisonher chesty appendages.No melon, apples..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Size Does Matter
Two men, named Engelbert and Rolfwere playing early morning golf.To keep their mind and skills awakethey soon decided on a break.Two coffin nails..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Size Does
In a home for battered ones,run by aseptic looking nunsrings the wall-mount telephonehubby wants to pick a bone.Woman yells leave me alonekeep to..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Sixty-Nine Limerick)
After drinking a bottle of winewhile conversing with Englebert Klein,Miss Fellaziobelle slurreda most out of place wordand it sounded like..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Six Months To Live
The doctor wore his undertaker mask this morning.Miss Jones was in to get the full report.All tests completed and the biopsy is back.The room is..
© Herbert Nehrlich