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").

Flying

A man who thought he needed wingsto fly above the lands of kingswoke up one morning with a pairthat been stitched from angel hair.He moved them..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Fluids

I like that, as it comes from you,the thought alone - it warms my skin.I'll be the one who manages to drooljust at the memory of you, so, are we..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Floodplains And Bloodstains

A medieval landscape it is,the floodplains of Lowere Saxony,where once gypsies replacedwith deceptive vengeance,the locals, warriors of a time,that..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Flirting With Mrs. Bluerinse

'Excuse me, young man,do you mind? 'Even at the marketyou find the unusual,the exotic and the unexpected.Her fingers were pointingto a shelf, out of..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Flight Q 124

So, here I sit, drink rhubarb wineand dream about my Valentine.She's in New York to see a wizardthe telly showed a great big blizzard.Meanwhile the..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Flight Q-24

The cop pulled out his ticket book:'No ma'am, you may NOT go one-fifty,we realise LA has shook,earthquakes make freeways rather shifty.''We see that..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Flight

Pardon me said the goose to the chicken,I did mean no affront nor offense,though the plot bubbled up, then to thickenand the mood in the barnyard was..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Fliegen Lernen

Als dazumal, im Elternhausdie Sippschaft sass beim Osterschmaus,da waren zwei halbstarke Bubenbei Schulaufgaben in den Stuben.Die Langeweile kam erst..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Flattery Will Do It

I did remember the adageabout how flattery will get youinto the portals of all homesand palaces, perhaps it cansecure an entry permit forthe Pearly..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Flanders Field

They died a painful death in Flanders Field,earth drenched in crimson blood, a soldier's dream,he knew the very day his fate was sealed'twas his..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Flakes

Snowflakes fell, landing uponthe dilapidated body of man,dressed not for the occasionbut for vanity and economic,well, political and other..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Fixing Figures

I am so proud,I told my mother,your son the poet!So when you lookat the five hundred,they have been fixed,so says Poo-hound.So if they havegiven the..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Five November Limericks

A monk from the town of Toulousepracticed witchcraft and penile abuse.When he cast a big spellon his little Fidelit grew larger than both of his..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Fish For Dinner

Fritz the fisherman fished for fresh fishdid that dull day discover the dishwhich wife Wendy was working with wiskstirring sage into sauce at some..

© Herbert Nehrlich

First, Pause

I like a bit of shynessin a girl,she'll wait and think,consider what to say,to me this meansshe'll never ever winkbut there be flowersin the month of..

© Herbert Nehrlich

First Grade - First Class

'I'm only five, you knowand, just like youhave started school.Mum says I like it.As all kids do.I find myself,in real life,much more maturethan you'd..

© Herbert Nehrlich

First 2009 Limericks

There once was a fellow from Britainwho had never been stung or bitten.While he swam in a creekduring Passover weekhe saw HER and was instantly..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Firewater And Love

Firewater and Love,unwilling companions,met at the creeknear the last tipi,made of the skinsof Campbell River wolves.The chief himselfwas resting..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Fiona! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

On Mondays I don't rise with all guns blazingmy head needs oxygen and interphasing.Anoxic from the Cabernet (which folks are praising)I find Fiona..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Finito

Du bist, ich muss es sagen, ohne Reuhe,ich auch, es lebt das Leben vor sich hin.Ich habe Dich, mein Schatz und halte Dir die Treue,so weit entfernt..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Final Song

They called him Opa,he was so....old.He took l-dopaand hoarded gold.Behind each hedgehe saw a hiderit was his pledgethat a lone riderfrom evil..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Final

When he asked her to stay,when he pleaded and begged,when he reasoned with logicshe just stood by the door,briefly smiled with her lipsand, in a..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Filling The Gap

He sang, some fifty years ago, this song:I would so love to still my raging thirstand wait here, at the door to hear the Gongto be the only one and..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Filbert

He endlessly walked through the mallsin search of sanity and balls.He'd lost the former when his wifehad taken over in his life,the balls fell off..

© Herbert Nehrlich

Fifth Wheel

Quite useless, it doestake up some precious space.Handy it isfor the occasion-so rarewhen one or the otherof the regular onesfails.But only then.The..

© Herbert Nehrlich