Herbert Nehrlich Poems

A honeybee, (it was a she)
sat in the Frangipani tree.
She had been told to fly around
just seven metres off the ground
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My horse had bolted at the flash
of lightning, amplified by thunder.
The saddle bags contained the cash
I'd stolen, welcome to Down Under.
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And who will remember
the day in September,
when the terrorists struck
and New York went amuck?
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A pair of Colorado boots
were walking over bracken roots.
Wild pigs had covered the terrain
and caused the bracken so much pain.
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And see the boy,
how big he's grown
once like a toy
of flesh and bone.
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It is a small challenge to rhyme
your undoubtedly pretty first name
I would give you a rather clean dime
in an effort to share with you fame.
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Well it's Chelsea Marie
so how could it be
that I found not a word
like a featherless bird
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I stood and watched
my daughter's birth.
A tuft of hair
salt of the earth.
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They left her there, at the junction,
bleeding from torn rags that once
had placed her in the company of
the city's bourgeoisie, as one of them,
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The bombs are dropping still
so reminiscent of the dirty days
of powdered dust, so cocoa brown,
the city was surrounded by the coal
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