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").

For Mal

My life has gone so quickly,and suddenly, my God!I woke up very sicklyit was my aging bod.I've always been a dancerI even learned the Twistand now it..

© Herbert Nehrlich

For Lot's Wife

Hung out to dry in ridiculeis she who imitates a fool.Ignored by all, attracting laughterfor now and then and the hereafter.You are a rather stupid..

© Herbert Nehrlich

For Linda Ori-No Special Occasion

While sitting on a hollow logI noticed a small, handsome frog,he came to me, quite unafraidand said 'we need to find some shade.'I was as you'd..

© Herbert Nehrlich

For Kelly Mcg.

A soapy spongebath of all things!She stood, sweet bovine eyes of hopeand wiped away the worries of the day.I had suspended conscious thought,the very..

© Herbert Nehrlich

For Jerry Hughes

I did, mein Herr,stick up two fingers,they had been treatedas you had askedby deep immersioninto blacked-out crypts.However, only fliesand one..

© Herbert Nehrlich

For Jerry - Part I

A brilliant man that Rosenfeldtan op a notch above your belt.You noticed his old fountain penhe's a stickler among men.All nit and picking you will..

© Herbert Nehrlich

For Hrh Princess Shirley

Imagine this, a rosedescended from the thorns of ageof royal origins in distant lands,she caught the eye of a young man,a strapping farmer, a..

© Herbert Nehrlich

For Her Who Went To The Beach Today

I do admit it freely Sir,the legs, the movements, it was her.She entered slowly, splashing someI was in awe, yelled here I come.To introduce myself..

© Herbert Nehrlich

For Her

There wasa timewhere lawsof rhymedid standfor classdemanda crassniveau.I've feltthe needto beltindeedthose rhymesand postfor dimesat mostalso free..

© Herbert Nehrlich

For Henner

I woke without youit was fine.More space,a second pillowand no bloody snores.You think I care,I know enough about youyou are not mine,a pretty..

© Herbert Nehrlich

For E.N.

He took it all,well packedand planned.The talents andexotic skills,a voice,that look,and his own melodyof soft tranquillity,which always was(as if it..

© Herbert Nehrlich

For Dr. Ursus - Either Or?

He pointed to your brilliant marksand killed the just emerging sparksof what, in other, better timescould have produced some pleasant rhymes.That..

© Herbert Nehrlich

For Dew (Haiku)

It's such a pitythat folks think they can gatherlove in a fortnight.The poet Schiller,while watching Johann Wolfgang,advised great caution.Observe..

© Herbert Nehrlich

For Declan

There once was a fellow named D.he had misunderstood little me.Though his poems ain't badand he is a good ladso let pax for the two of us be.So this..

© Herbert Nehrlich

For As - Age Matters

I gotta tell you something, Mate,let's not postpone, it cannot wait.Remember yesterday's debate?About mere male, his likely fate?Well, I for one, now..

© 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