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").

Peasant Wisdom For The New Year

Peasant walks in veggie scene, finds his feet are, later, green.Peasant likes a dropp of ale, his complexion will be pale.On the tractor falls asleep..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Pearson's Immortality

Oh what a shameI say, he's goneit's not the samewithout the Donas he regardedhis poet selfwas he awardedby an elffive stars or moreand public..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Payback

Once in his life, his breath was freea beating heart, it knew its placethe knowledge of identitywas etched upon his weathered face.The gods had given..

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Pax Vobiscum?

On top of Mount Olympus sat, a German and a Finnthere they sampled a delicious malted brew.Foam and bubbles overflowed and slowly trickled down the..

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Patient-Assisted Suicide

As one who often caresfor peoplewho suffer fromsome terminal diseasessuch asleukaemia or myeloma,who gets involvedin hushed discussionswith..

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Patience

I laid my hand upon your breastand drowned my lips with gentle greed.Your eyes were mine, your core was prestagainst me, hard, with urgent need.And..

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Pathetics

She dropped me like a boiling spudas if I were a bowl of mud.It is, they say, a great mirageto wait for soap enriched lavage.But all the trouble she..

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Past Reason

The road was dark,conditions treacherous,heat and humidity,white ragged rocks,but he pressed onto reach the very end,the biology of..

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Passionfruits

I do remember now,you held my faceand cradled itwith hands so softthe love seepedfrom its pores,and, now and thenyou found my eager lipsas if to say..

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Passing Over

She was feisty, this nurse and she handed to hima small handfull of yellow-green pills,he was pale in the face and his build was too slimand they had..

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Passing On

Of all the things men contemplateone is extremely odd,arriving at the Pearly Gate,we make our peace with God.We carry on our lifeless backs,huge..

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Passages And Eggs

It can be,after deforestation,a veritable Pumicestone Passage,sediments resting on the bottom,algae floating and longing for sunshine,but all things..

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Passages

First it's the ptyalininside the oral cavity,where masticators(at times they're thirty-two)do all their handiworkwith sounds unlike a violinand more..

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Passage For One

He'd chosen wisely for the end.A lazy Sunday afternoonin late October, summer's close,when all the coloured leaves,adrift so briefly for a final..

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Part One, Part Two

The position was,he knew this very well,both silly and precarious.What had been practicedfor generations,through hand-me-downwas really just..

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Part Ii Schmidt

Das Recht, es lebt und strebt wo Menschen sind,Justitia, in der rechten Hand ein Schwert,die Linke haelt die Waage in den leisen Windsie soll..

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Paris Then (For Tante G.)

I told her her corpus luteumbelonged in the New York museum.But the ovary knowshow progesterone grows.Only she was still in the lyceum.Did you know..

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Paradise Lost

A man is a man only if he can,says the book of all secrets and more.Looks like Palin was just a brief flash in the panjust as useless as big fat Al..

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Paradise Gained

Albert and Hulda lived in style,they walked each Saturday a mile,ate vegetables, fruits and breadbut then, they ended up quite dead.Up to the Pearly..

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Paper Moon

'Little Boy Blue',she called him thatin honour of the colourof his lips and nose.His mother criedas she gave birthto him inside the chapel.Gunfire..

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Pantyhose Puzzle

Here's a puzzle in poetry prosetake an average pantyhoseif you wanted to hidereal critters insidecan you make me a list of all those.Little piggies..

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Panty Hose Troubles

Some day she says that she will finda panty hose to fit her waist.It's not so much that cute behind,its contours having been erasedby many years of..

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Panic At The Station

There was panic at the station as the horses soon returnedthey will never leave behind their trusted place,barn and sheds and trees on fire and the..

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Pallbearers

Inside the box of cypress pine(they say that worms won't touch the stuff) ,exactly at the dot of ninesix friends from school, who huff and puffand..

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Palin And Gang

There once was a lady named Palin,she used hype and deceit by the gallon.Had the Democrats riledwith her call from the wildWith moustache she would..

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