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 Beam In His Eye (Haiku)
His pointed fingerresembled mutilationa strange reflection.His stare was cruel,and darkened by the shadowof a large splinter.
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Bad Poem (Competition)
And when time after timethey grow lemon and lime,which makes thinking sublimeand leads poets to rhymelike a Klingenthal chimein its second year..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Pious Journey
In religion we have doubters and these doubters stand their groundlooking wise and all confused because they are.Let's remember Father Moses as he..
© Herbert Nehrlich
A Death
The snot ran slowly, in rivulets,coloured by staph and streptococci,mixed in haphazard way, downand came to rest within the coarseand curly hairs..
© Herbert Nehrlich
500 Words And One Hand
'Yes', she uttered.It was 1966, home turf,when standing, tipsyon the muddy banksof our river,by name of Schwalm,when she, with suddenand so..
© Herbert Nehrlich
4evr
Nothing adorns and decoratesa pewter concrete face.The Moon shines listlesslyits dim and yellow lightonto the thoughts that riseto enter small..
© Herbert Nehrlich
2999 - Enough Already!
I shall, dear reader stop right here.Though this, to critics may appearto be an inner, insecurebut outwardly so very sureand Lederhosenmusketeer.You..
© Herbert Nehrlich
27 Haiku Definitions
DeathInevitable?Death most certainly is not.Until it happens.BirthComing out of theremust be the weirdest journeyof any unborn.IllnessShould illness..
© Herbert Nehrlich
21 Haikus
He stayed inside heruntil the borders openedbeloved Poland.She shaved the hair offbut hubby was a drunkardhair of the dog, then.The snow of..
© Herbert Nehrlich
2009 Happy Birthday Jerry Hughes!
Jerry Hughes is making merry,folks as far as Londonderrysend him wishes, sometimes darts,he may upset applecartsup to snuff in his cognitionquick to..
© Herbert Nehrlich
2006
New Year has come, two-thousand-six,it desperately needs a fix.The biggest known deficiencyis what we call omega-three.And further should it be our..
© Herbert Nehrlich
1961, And Later (Haiku)
Cherryblossomfreshthis word describes your bosom.My eyes were grateful.Acorns suspendedforty years of gravity,I'm presbyopic.
© Herbert Nehrlich
10 Haikus And Some Wisdom
Hand in handhand in itit in handit in it.Tongue in cheektongue in itit on tongueit in it.***********HaikuWalk along with methinking of your..
© Herbert Nehrlich
...Wise To Be Humble
Oh God, it is wise to be humblebut poets may never believe,in the poet world's rumble and tumblehe has millions of words up his sleeve.And he twists..
© Herbert Nehrlich
...Not Far From The Tree
An apple bored to just be hanginghad tried, through frequent heavy bangingto cut himself loose from the tree,he wanted also to be free,as some of his..
© Herbert Nehrlich
...And Carry A Big Stick
Walk softly, boy and always carrya stick to chase your foes awaygo get the girl you want to marryand build that house on Horseshoe Bay.It is not..
© Herbert Nehrlich
....Und Lache, Lache, Lache
Man wird im Leben of verkohlt,das kommt von der Natur.Wir Alten werden ueberholtman schickt uns noch zur Kur.Die Zeit verfliegt, man merkt es kaumdas..
© Herbert Nehrlich
....For Being Late
'Twas late in the dayon that Christmas Eveand the elves lost their way,Santa rolled up his sleeve,quick took out out his road mapand peered through..
© Herbert Nehrlich
....And Many Happy Returns
He had just celebrated,with kindred friends and spiritshis seventieth.The guests now goneand one could hearthe squeaking of his rocking..
© Herbert Nehrlich
.....When I'M Sixty-Four?
I hope your handswill always be forme to hold.And, if they area trifle sweaty,would you mindto overlookthis sign oframpant joy?I hope your eyeswill..
© Herbert Nehrlich
.....The Wedding Of Mardi Gras And Pantomime
When Mardi Gras wooed Pantomimethey danced through all the streets,the gods, whose Credo was the timesent fireworks as treats.As time does not stand..
© Herbert Nehrlich
......Of Gold?
I was not looking when you found meyou stopped just long enough to smile.I felt your presence all around meand hoped that you would stay awhile.You..
© Herbert Nehrlich
........Ism
He pulled the triggeron that noisy morningin the Bunker of Berlin.The pages of Mein Kampf,just briefly soakedwere used to startthe fire that would..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Old Friends
So comfortable together,They now marched side-by-side,Though their hides were tough as leather,They strode along with pride...Their fiercesome tusks..
© Denis Martindale
Olive Oil Made My Day!
Another week has come and gone... gone but not forgotten...Another week, full armour on... and this week was a hotten...One day, the heat had just..
© Denis Martindale