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").
The Taste Of A Macrophage
I have always liked her fingers,they were short but not banana like.Impressed I'd be if any finger lingersjust after testing leakage in the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Tallest Poppy
America, you have the weirdpot-smoking ones, those with a beard.They wear the swastika with pridetake their own boneheads for a ride.It is an illness..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Swim
Under a starlit sky,he watched her strip,then test the waterwith a foot so whiteit seemed to be of chalk.Then she was goneand reappeared, her..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Sunday Incident
I must report an incident that has disturbedand troubled me, in fact I needed to partakeof two small tablets of diazepam just to pull through.It was..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Suffocation Of Mr. Heimlich
A worm who lived inside a leafwas stolen by a hungry thief.Inside a lettuce he'd residedjust when the Lord himself decidedthat he would make the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Story Of My Grandma
It was a comfortable chair, her son taped the arms for her.Sitting by the window and watching real life unfoldin the magnifying mirrors attached to..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Stork And The Single Girl
A bird with feathers and long legsis known to people as a stork.The question whether storks lay eggswas settled once, back in New York.A lady had put..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Stoopesse
The weight was way too much.As time went on without reprieveher spinal column bent,toward the ground, each daya little more, although she triedto..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Stockbroker
The ledge felt quite intrusive,his bony legs and scrawny asshad chosen just to sit a bit.He was unsure, since 10 o'clockwhen all results were..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Stalinoids
The Grisvolds did have certain rules,her name was Beth and his was Jules.Inside the house no one wore shoesand Jules himself would always choosewhat..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Stage Poet
The curtains now departand silence does replacethe whispers of true arthis voice subdues its pace.He speaks in melodiesintense, in soothing tone,and..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Spider Said
And God looked down upon the earth,to ask of me what I would do, this time,he knew, of course, the misery of Oz,how they had won, through a..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Specialist
A purple scribble, his referral,GP to specialist in haematology,a minor glitch had reared its headand bumped the noisy bellsof -surely- premature..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Softness....
He dreamed about it then,and during waking hourshis thoughts would driftinto the copse of fragile treeswhence pheromones would leadhis silver pointed..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Soapbox
Each morning he would wander to the park,to sit beneath the lantern and to greetthe crowd that had come out just after dark.They stood around the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Smoker
You have an overwhelming needto smoke that foul tobacco weedyou ruin your lungs when you inhaleit makes your facial skin so paleyou pay much money..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Smell Came Back
Once upon a timethere was a meeting ofall the animalsin the forest.They met, happily,under the giant oaksfor shade andprotectionand comfortand,above..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Smart Fly
A fly, born lazy, had been starvingwhen in the pantry, Bob was carvinga big Virginia Air-Smoked Ham.He also had prepared a lamb.The odour woke his..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Slotmachine
I wish I were a slotmachineinside a fancy clubAll chrome and colours to be seenthe pride of any pub.But wait until I tell you morethe best is all..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Sleuce Into Rubicon Springs
She remembered well from the night beforehow he rowed, all upstream, lacking paddle and oar,further slowing occurred through eruptions of batterwhat..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Skinny Pig (A Fable)
A weaner pig of good demeanourwas never meant to stay a weaner,the usual fare is grains and slopwith human dinner scraps on top.This pig, I must..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Single Bed
Each night I fall asleep,it is the true intentto pull the sheetsup to my chinand count thosecuddly little lambs.Back in the dayswhen I was young,a..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Singing Bat
A bird was caught inside a trapwhich closed its claws with a loud snap.The snap was heard by Fritz the catwho had been stalking a young bat.The bat..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Short War
They were the dark days,of nineteen-sixty-seven,he heard the call, so deafening,though it did not affect him,as these people were not his,but..
© Herbert Nehrlich
The Short Load
Just twenty klicks on Friday after work,the stubby shorts, my T-shirt of Desire,I need the exercise to stay within some reasonwe now have summer..
© Herbert Nehrlich