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").
Huffing
They huffed and they puffed and they brought the house downthen they rested with cig's in their bed,on the Telly appeared the most pitiful clownit..
© Herbert Nehrlich
How You Lose Them
Down by the raging river stooda handsome Daffodil,his head protected by a hoodand his demeanour still.A raven, passing in the nighthad dropped a..
© Herbert Nehrlich
How The Canetoad Came To Australia
It was near Cairns, out on the road.A rather homely looking toadwas of a mind to find his mate.'Twas raining heavily, and late.He dodged, with luck..
© Herbert Nehrlich
How Sad It Is
I just knew I would get her small goathence I purchased a five meter boat.I shall send all my stuffwrapped in tinsel and fluffand I'll wear my new..
© Herbert Nehrlich
How Odd
The two were really no match,she called him names like Duh and Snitch,he answered her, you silly snatchand mother is a crazy witch.Their..
© Herbert Nehrlich
How Many Sleeps
When I was small I liked to keepa calendar to count the days,and, too, the nights, that's when I sleep,but there are many different waysto keep good..
© Herbert Nehrlich
How It All Began
A star fell onto virgin earthand triggered there a holy birth.Forgive me, but it has been saidthat until then the world was deadand God who was the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
How Do I Look?
She said something exquisite here today:'It's like you're standing -warts and all- no mercy, naked.Exposed to hungry eyes of your new handsome..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Hotrod
He was a petrol sniffing manhe always carried one big canto drive the hot rod at high speedhe had this everlasting needto burn the rubber of his..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Hot And Present
She stepped into his suite,as per request, in miniskirt,a chiffon blouseand nothing down below.He made her wait,the scribbling went onand he could..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Hospital Patient
Jim had been operated on,and was what they, with optimism,call in recovery, back on the ward,had telephone and operas of soap,suspended from the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Horseflesh
Was it the devil resting onmy rubber booted foot?He drank for an eternity,his mane reminding methat flies abound in sulphur airthe weight was..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Horse Sense Under The Oak Tree
It was the greenest greenthat she had ever seen.A tiny, sad-eyed frog,daydreaming on a log.'She' was, of course, a horse,who used, as a good sourceof..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Horny Roaches
In the middle of the nightRobert woke due to a fright.Something hairy had appearedin his dream and Robert fearedthat the dream was very realso from..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Hormones
He always raced, gallopping up the stairs,four flights it was, and at the top was SHE.They had succumbed to what they knew was love,and practiced..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Hormonal
It was a whisper, really.Perhaps a bit metallic.A voice suppressed from freelyexpressing something phallic.Okay, so, call it hoarse,gravels of..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Horizons
Said the featherless birdhe's a nerd, he's a nerd.But the world never hearda more lyrical word.Let him fly to the skykeep the eagle's own eyeon the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Hops
On old Olympus mountain topstwo crazy Germans shared some hops.The hops were of the liquid kindthey always let a man unwind.They drank out of big..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Hopflower Tea
He calls it tea, hopflower tea to be exact.He's neither British nor acqainted with Earl Grey.He drinks so many gallons, could it be a factthat a..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Hopes
She saw, there on her bed a sock,and wondered where the sock was made,a bigger fool, the laughing stockcould not exist. In second gradethe teacher..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Hoover Go Home
There's a new guy named Henry Hooverhe is not what you call a smart grooverthey have dumped him downtownfor attacking a clownhis delusions were..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Hoon's Cat
A magpie, on the prowl since noonhad spotted a well-pimpled hoon.The hoon burned rubber on the streetno cop was seen to walk his beat.The magpie..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Hoolie
She actually isn't mine at all.Jack Russell Terrier called Hoolie.Replacement for the one who didwith canine curiosity, while daring fateattack the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Hook, Line And Sinker
I have always wondered what it meanswhen someone using oral meanssays something so colloquialthat it is understood by allexcept us foreigners of..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Honeymoon Sonnet
In silken sheets of her Italian bedwe consummated after we were wedthe union that each soul is lusting forwoke in the morn to a most fright'ning..
© Herbert Nehrlich