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").
A Woman's Scorn
A wise man said a woman's scornis given to her when she's born.She carries it, though under cover,a secret weapon for a loverwho dares defy her even..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Woman's Place
There really is no gender trapperhaps a teensie weensie gap,but one thing needs to be proclaimedit's once a woman's scorn has aimedit will with great..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Windowcactus
A cactus, lonely in his potup on the sunny windowsill,they watered him but he was nota happy guy. Without the thrillof a relationship of sortshe..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Will? You Serious?
Keeps nagging me about a willI had not thought that I was ill.We must protect and serve the kiddoes,just look how many lonely widowssit on a pile of..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Welcome From Enrico
Hey, Luciano, how nice it is indeed,you've come at last, no longer have a needto entertain the infidels and those who mustsit tight on wooden chairs..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Website Of Age And Decay
Her photo did not flatter.Even the casual observer,the one without an interestin any of life's offeringswould see the blemish; eyesas dead as ancient..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Weak Spot
Young Siegfried bathed in dragon bloodacquired immortality.No weapon could have harmed him buthis foe was pure reality.A leaf from ancient trees of..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Warm Moist Place
I ventured, full of confidence into the dark,a warm environment received me deep inside.Another great adventure for me to embark,there be no dullness..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A War
He'd yelled at her that day,when she came homewith a grandiose new plan.They had the space of courseand God would show his graceto all the family, as..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Walk In The Rain
She went out walking in the rain,light clouds were showing her the way,her face, a trace of fresh disdainyet she felt happier today.She came upon a..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Vote For Obama
McCain you've shot yourself, KAPUTT,into your warmongering foot.You would continue policyof George to make the people free?It is the will of folks..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Visit To The Pension Office
'He's just a kid', I thought.Still wet behind the ears.The patience that he brought,a man of so few years,was rather puny and surprising.It made me..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Visit To The General
She needed some assistance,walking was a pain they said,at eighty-six, though Mother had,since memory began, been strongand agile on her feet, she..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Visit
The doorbell rang, I jumped to seethere stood three men in suits,and bulges (were they meant for me?)plus black and shiny boots.'The President has..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Vibratory Instrument
A vibratory instrumentmore often used in early Lentdue to the rising of the sapthat Mother Nature has on tap,caresses superficial spotsand can be..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Very Happy Birthday For Jerry Hughes - Poet Extraordinaire
He's nothing like Hannibalbut so human an animal.His poetry showsthat the blood within flowswith a steady noblesse,not designed to impressbut a man..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Twinkling, Obnoxious Little Silver Star
She'd sent me stars, two handfuls in that myst'ry package.And when I opened to unpack they came like swarmsof silver insects, bright and ready to..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Turn-On
I know about perception, yours.you always seem to knowwhen impulses descenddown from my brain right to the endwhere eager nerves feed aging..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Trojan Horse
He was the first to climb inside,a trap door just beneath the tail,only skinny warriors apply,though all, even the fat oneswere in awe over the very..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Tough Pussycat
They got the job that summer,house-sitting in the Siskiyous.Among the Ponderosa Pinesand squirrels, bushy-tailed,bright-eyed and Oregonean.The owner..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Tooth Fairytale (Revised)
The plane touched down at LAX.I'd nursed that tooth since graduation.And I had hoped that the old Hex,which might affect my presentation,would show..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Toad
A toad sat on a railroad trackand polished there his scales.He could not reach his centre backwith his long fingernails.He found a hammer and drove..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Thrum
As all those parts made up a sumto be admired or ignoredhe heard a faint soprano humlow instincts told him he had scored.He wrote a poem, fourteen..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Thing Called Love (By Rachel)
This love affair is in the brainIt does not show itself outside.Does it exist? It can't be provedIn any ordinary way.Unusual standards come to..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Thief Born Early
Two boys, both blond and blue of eyewere playing at the Lorelei.As foreign ships passed near the cliffbold flags in morning frost were stiff.The..
© Herbert Nehrlich