Herbert Nehrlich Poems

It was a day full of tristesse.
The birds knew it,
dogs, wolves and roaches
sensed it,
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The salesman looked at me and grinned.
'You make me laugh, you really do.
The question is, can I sell wind
to unsuspecting buyers, you
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A crash destroyed my happy dream,
it must be glass that loudly shattered,
turns out a palm frond that I'd left,
just slightly yellow, and preparing
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I loved my parents that Spring day
and had no reservation.
Let me describe this if I may,
this time of admiration.
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They say the years from one to five,
when tiny tots become alive,
li'l professors they are, really
as they take in and store so freely
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Use three percent peroxide, dear
first in the nose, then in the ear.
Those nasty germs will run and scatter
and from the nostrils greenish matter
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There once was a handsome green frog
who resided inside an old log.
He had cut two small vents
in the log for defense
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A stork built on the roof a nest,
he had just recently been blessed
with what he called his feathered dream:
Long legs, a beak of crimson cream
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A mouse looked through a tiny crack
to see the farmer and his spouse
who opened what she had brought back
from shopping back here to the house.
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Out of the hollow clouds
swaying in endless skies
fall with their desperate cries
raindrops like wayward kids.
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