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").
Dozing Off
I sat, against the root of a dishevelled casuarina,the storm had been too violent for its tender facea horde of hungry crabs and shiny Fiji..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Down At The Roots
I'd spent some time thereon exquisite dunes,before a gust blew in from Belvedereand played a melody like looney tunes.I slip and plummet down the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Dousing The Light
I knew of course, one startsthis bitter journey at the very top.Each step gives you a little joltas if to jog the memories now gone,the sound is..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Doubledicker
In answer to your underhanded queryand knowing that you have been rather puzzled,it would surprise you, as a shoulderpadded deariethat I have two..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Don'T Call Me Mother Hen - Again
I stood and watchedmy daughter's birth.A tuft of hairsalt of the earth.To see it throughto its safe endI prayed to youasked you to bendrules of..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Domkop
In Holland where the tulips growand mills turn in the breezewhere barges have small boats in towand where they make great cheese.It's where the gods..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Dolly The Sheep
Dolly was her name.She was a sheep.Some asinineand arrogant filouhad started up a gameof can we screw and keep,have a genetic linesuperior to any..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Doldrums - Population Unknown
My mother told meon a day when allmy necessary actionswere going well,that she and maybe allof us would be soonin the Doldrums.Well, there were..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Doghouses
My dog lives in my house with me,the doghouse stays outside.He thus avoids the miserythat weather changes mightinflict upon his gentle soulmy dog is..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Doghouse
I'm in it!The dog's been moved.I took his place.It's airy, noisycozy and it smells a bit.It's just the thingto find yourself in,now and then.Or..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Dog Years
The stones accumulate at lastand make you mellowyour public face is quite aghast,your inner fellowwill wonder what will now becomeof your resolveas..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Dog Eat Dog
Australia is known to all and sundry asthe lucky country.As luck might have it this,and seven other factoidsmay well be true.America, I shudder to..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Doctor Freud
The fact that you wear a moustacheand float around with much panachedoes not make you into the Kaisernor would it see you any wiserso stop pretending..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Doch.................
It strikes me, suddenly,a stem cell of surprise.So will you play, new friendor stick to the demisethat has been scripted then?I may regret to say I..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Doc Stickfinger
There once was a doc who was needy,and each year he turned ever more greedy.He would steal from the richand liked garden gnome kitsch,both his eyes..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Doc Frankenstein
'Perfection', said the scientist,'if you fall short, you're off my list.Genetics cannot be surpassedselection, friends, will not be vast.''A single..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Doc Curtis - Dentist Emeritus
He was long retired,sick of groping and drillinginside the mouthsof fellow citizens.But golfing wouldn't do,his old sciaticahad now revisited.So he..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Do You Doodle?
He'd always put free reigninto his cranial hemispheresbut there was method (and a bit of madness) .He'd dreamed up rules, of course,'twas either..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Do Write It Down
Those tiny mothsthat arein their dimensionjust thoughts.....and when theycome searchingfor youdo write it down.When rhythm and words,leisurely,seek..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Do The Deed
You know, he said, this world, it truly sucks,they've got me coming from the morning to the night,I can't remember when we were such eager bucksthat..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Do Earwigs Have Hair?
An earwig, brown and also shinysat on a river bank, alone.Compared to others he was tiny,a critter made of skin and bone.This mission's solitary..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Do
It's only you that sees the fogand finds himself so lost withinthe murmur of familiar voices,do let the kindness of the suntransform all tears to..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Disappointment
A coward is a person whocould never wear another's shoe.There is a pattern you should knowthey're good in putting on a show.Once they have given the..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Diogenes Und Die Kakerlaken
Diogenes sass in der Tonne,die Fuesse draussen in der Sonne.Die Fuesse fangen an zu schwitzenwenn viele Zellen sich erhitzen.Doch drinnen in der..
© Herbert Nehrlich
Diogenes
Inside a weatherbeaten drum,there sat a man, alert but glum.It was, of course, Diogenes,he'd fled the world and its distress.And from the time that..
© Herbert Nehrlich