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 Grave
The lights go out on Bullcock Beach at night,gray as the past the waves come in to touch,a drifter without food and without sightgoes through the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Glimmer
The campus had been plaguedby much unrest and bigotry,there was the ROTC, pathetically,those closely cropped nitwittedand underhanded..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A German - English Poem
So ruhig fliesst der Rheinkein Fischlein denktkein Fischer lenktden Kahn fuer sich allein,ans Ufer treibt ihn nunder suesse Weinso soll es seinvom..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Future (Haiku)
Yes, the war for oilmany tempers on the boilstay on homeland soil.And soon it happensthat axis evil countriesblow up their neighbours.It is ordained..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Friend Is.....
A friend is one who is like me,or is it one who likes me much,and maybe someone you can touch?Perhaps a buddy who would bein all dark alleys in your..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Frican Gazelle
Well, my kids, in first grade learn to readwe are practicing daily, indeed.Said boy John I have tooka good look at the bookit's a zoobook, that much..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Freckle Remembered
A freckle on my Grandpa's nose,was prominent, but I supposeit did not bother him in life.Though Grandma, who had been his wifefor fifty years in..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Fragile Thing
He was a stickler,and spent his day in search ofher little tickler.She said dear fellowyour dipstick is too scrawny,and soft as Jell-O.He nodded..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Four-Leaf Haiku
He was a stickler,and spent his day in search ofher little tickler.She said dear fellowyour dipstick is too scrawny,and soft as Jell-O.He nodded..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Force
She was a force that dwelledin darkness, far away from God,a pool of syrup, red and self-propelledannounced her presence, which was somehow..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Fishy Story
A trout who swam in murky waterssurrounded there by sons and daughters,developed on a sunny daya toothache, causing him dismay.This pain was, as you..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Fire
It was so fulminating.A fire burned withinfrom spindly kindlingand a breath of airit sprang to lifeconsuming obstaclesand dull objectionsand stark..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Fine Sunday It Turned Out To Be
She sat there in my Haines,reading Oliver Sacks to me.While I, not being the literal kind,this fine morning, I stareddiscreetly, needless to say,at..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Few Of Us
Each one of us thinks greatness haswithout much open razzmatazzbeen resident within our minds.So when we sit on our behindssheer brilliance leaves..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Feather For Poverty
I do not care how much they wouldgive to buy me if they could.I am poor and often starving,desperately, slowly carvingmy own way through this shady..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Favour Sweetheart
I am aware thatthis is askinga bit too much.Perhaps it isjust little me,so out-of-linethat I am pastall shame now,no embarrassmentcan get to meonly..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Family
Her father was a smart dyslexicbut she was thin and anorexic.The mother had a bad addictionto gambling in her jurisdiction.One brother used..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Familiar Song
I was just browsing,looking, searching my soulfound but a beautiful girl.Yes you were pretty,yes you were richbut you were not for me.You sent me..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Faceless God
And there appearedwithout a warninga break within the cloudsthat had remained,so heavy and so lowall week, as all HIS peoplewent on about the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Duty Now To Die
They'd badgered him, the family,to go and have the tests, since, after all,one needed to take all that modern medicineand science had to offer to..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Dull Featherweight
There are those who will always stoop lowas they're smarting still from the last blow.Fabrication? It suitswalk in somebody's boots?Not for those..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Down Under Itch
There once was a fellow named Pap,he was Greek but alazy old chap.While his hand was insideof his Inuit bridehe said, something in here is on tap.And..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Dire Emergency
It was a dire emergency,something no frog appreciates.A stork, his home a fancy neston top of the red-tiled roof,had stabbed his hungry beakinto the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Dilemma
It is so sadwhen claritygives way tofrank befuddlement.It is the brainthat cries for help.In dire need of nutrientsthat are not presentin daily meals..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Different Path
Who, in his dreams or musings would have thoughta path, though narrow, through the jungle weaved,a voice inside kept singing, yes, we oughtset foot..
© Herbert Nehrlich