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").
Lovers Talk
T (sleepyhead) :My head beneath your chinMy mouth upon your heartI am at home at lastAt restAt peace.Legs entwined,Limbs entangled....M (just being..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Loveable Limericks # 3
He lived through the intubationand the five hour operation.Then went back to his bedwhere he slept and fell deadfrom protacted emaciation.A prominent..
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Loveable Limericks
It was five o'clock in the morningwhen I saw her, and, sweetly, adorningher pearly white fleshwas a fisherman's meshit was black and the colour of..
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Love Me
Our Robin came todayto tell me you are sad.That you had tearsbut did not want for me to know,I sent him back to youwith a small scribbled note:I'll..
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Love Is Reflection
Alas, it follows thattrue love isjust an animalthat always mustbe a reflectionof its own self,seen in the depthof your blue eyes.It is nota..
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Love In Malibu
When you stepped in front of meto get your silly stamps and mailthat all important letter to who knowsI thought you brash and rude,and when you took..
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Love And Death
So what, the learned scholar asked of mewould be the opposite of love, it is the keyto ascertain what turns the clock of humankindand leaves the..
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Love **
What I found, deep in her glacier eyeswas the answer to an ageless question,Love is, the words were writ on snipsof freshly detached retina, it isa..
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Love He Said
He whispered that he loved meinto a hot, receptive ear.Though neither he, the boy from schoolnor I, were wise enough to knowthat there is something..
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Love - A Cuckoo?
Ah, LOVE, a cuckoo bird persistent on the prowlthe Quisling of the forest I would say,It ridicules the wisdom of the owl,a Nomad who will visit but..
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Love - Definition # 6,997,412
And so, for decades I had lookedto find true love.A mile long string of beauties on my hit parade.When, on a Sunday, all the clouds were..
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Louise Visits The Doctor
'I need to have this strange conditionthat's bugged me now for fourteen blasted days,my man is in a hurry (goin' fishin') ,fixed still this morning..
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Louie
I have a thing about all smells,always have had, I should say odours though,so many memories will come,from decades past, the trigger is a scent.Next..
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Lot's Wife
A sentry stoodright by the doorhe said he wouldjust like beforedeny to meadmission tothe place to bethe things to do.And sincethe sentrylooked like..
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Lost Love
There was no love,not even lust.Indifference had,so cunningly,come throughthe door,the one in back,with screens all torn.They did not knowhow in..
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Losers (Haiku)
Some men are failuresBorn with such hate and envy,Spit would be wasted.
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Loser-Limerick
I do Not for a moment thinkthat this site called p/h would now shrink.It's the garbage man's roleto remove every soulof the league of the losers who..
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Lord, You May Have Sinned
Dear Lord, I speak to you tonighton infrastructure matters,it seems you did not get it right,creation is in tatters.Just viewing from the outside..
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Loose Limerick
On the days that she wore a blond wigshe permitted herself just one cig.Soon both dropped to the floorand she shouted 'no more',neither wig nor the..
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Looking For A Cure
And people paused to listen.So serious were the words.'Breast Cancer claims so many lives,we're looking for a cure,so help us find one, all we needis..
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Long, Long Ago
A male tyrannosaurus rexhad finished shaving his long legs.The monster was quite well equippeduntil the his concentration slipped.It spelled the end..
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London
It rang again just now,you think it's her,or just a fluke at 3 a.m.?Maybe we should,and quickly nowtry that toll free oneagain, but thenour line will..
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Logistics
They had it all arranged, or so they thought.Booked a motel, left word of where it wasthis conference of minds, so overwrought.They had ideas and..
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Logic
He called me early on that fateful day,his dentist had been rushed and in a mood,perio will wreck you, heart and all, so you can praydon't eat omega..
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Locusts Burn
He diagnosed a fulminating typeof halitosis, allium cepa was the termhe used, one must describe the signsand symptoms so that colleagues willat once..
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