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").
Ciborium?
CIBORIUM?We have here an EMPORIUM,it sports an AUDITORIUM,though not a SANITORIUM,much less a CREMATORIUM.They called a MORATORIUMin building a..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Church Matters
The vicar had as it was writdenounced the devil, in a fit.The one who tempts all mice and menpicked on a preacher now and then.He had, in steaming..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Church Business
A preacher named Adrian Finnhad considered that living in sinwith a nubile young maidwho'd ensure he'd get laidwould bestow a perpetual grin.An..
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Chuck'Nut Drive
I, too regret the very daythey came, unbiddenwith sound and lightsthe fright of well-fed petsin what is known simplyas Chuck'nut Drive.It's where the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Chubby
Would you do me up dear, please?Pull a little harder, they still growin'Funny you should say this, they are not,lard accumulates beneath a woman's..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Christmas Bound
The season now is truly finishedand all our funds are well diminished.I know a trick of how to beby Easter, thinner and debt free.Stop eating, use..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Christmas - A Bit Of History
The Fatherland, that's where it all began.A Christmas Market held in 1434.The town of Dresden, needless to say,where candles, toys and sweetsand..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Chosen? **
I dreamedthat I was chosento preparefor cruel tasksin daylights shimmerto succeed.The ghostsin the deep wavesthey duly screamed,but missed the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Choosing
While looking around for a herosomething close to the number primero,I found Mother Teresaand the great Mona Lisa.In the end I chose Robert DeNiro.
© Herbert Nehrlich
Chooks
I am reminded of the flock of Leghorn chooks,they were so ugly and they laid each day an egg.Rhode Island Reds were more my style, go check the..
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Cholesterol - Friend Or Foe?
Raynette did ask about the stuffit's called CHOLESTEROL,we seldom really get enoughall else is hyperbole.The people with the highest scorethey live..
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Choisir
She felt his hand,the hand that hadthe previous nightcaressed that wife,who, undeserving, smilesand wallows in her lust.It is the bloody..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Choice
Inside the grotto is my placewhile kissing her angelic face.May God trap all the blood to spareinside the swollen vessels there.I say I'll take my..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Chirp
She was back at her home called a nestjust to stretch and to snooze and to rest.But a voice from below(from a cranky old crow)said, no bluebird can..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Chiro Duck
Four days to Christmas, eyes aglowyet I remember some years back.We owned a duck, as white as snowhe had a lengthy, ropy neck.Was called the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Chincherinchee
She'd always hated sticky things,refused in kindergarten peanut paste,that's what they called it then,no jelly passed her lips, no sweets.The boy who..
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Chimney Fire
Only forty more sleepsand then Santa will comewith the bells and the beepsand the presents for some.Only good kids will getwhat all good kids have..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Children Of Poetry
It is a bit like having foster parents,you think they give a damn, because they really care.Then comes the crunch, you look up from your pillowand..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Childhood Lessons
Is filth the same as trash?Asked little Speedy Zales.No, trash is what you mashfilth has its own morales.So boy you need to knowif you smell filth..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Childhood (By Rilke) Translation
It would be good to reminisceof all that's lost from childhood afternoons,can they return to me, I missthose endless hours that are now in ruins.It..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Child
It is I, Cantadora,creator of dreamsfor the feeble of mindand the pressure at seamsthat will leave you behind.In the Kingdom of Boraevery dream makes..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Cheyne Stokes For Ordinary Folks
She rested still, her rattling breatha sentry for impending death,awakens those who share her roomstill fearful of their private doom.The nurse had..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Cherryblossoms
I told the world about my past,that I hailed from the old and dusty,and after many steps, at lastI could discard my filthy, mustyrags for the riches..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Cherries
I see them now, red ruby and engorged,would there be any way to have a taste.God made infinity, He planned and forgedHe saw a temple of the law of..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Cherokee Traditions
A very wise, and old traditionpassed on through many generationsconcerns the rules of going fishingin all the lands, of all the nationsbe not to take..
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