Herbert Nehrlich Poems

A bus trip through the Northern Beaches,
it slowed to fifty near the houses,
the dark haired lady, one who teaches
about the past and thus arouses
...

God, will you help me just today?

I am confronted by a velvet skinned young maiden.
Or should I say presented with her by the grace of...YOU?
...

You send from
the outbox to
the inbox
so that
...

I always knew
that some day
I would find you
and love you.
...

Rhyme and meter
totter, teeter,
those who do
(maybe you?) .
...

'Doway, doway', the soldier shouted,
moving them on with much impatience,
they were not able to go any faster,
kids, handwagons and their lives' belongings
...

The doctor said 'now listen Bob,
your illness is the serious kind,
and when I turn this silver knob
on your machine you soon will find
...

And all she left him
was that pink old garter belt.
then went to Flagstaff.
...

He knew the term from adolescence,
had never tasted it due to benign
but earthen scents of ripened spuds,
he savoured all once all the clouds had gone.
...

The shriek awakens me,
suspended as I hang
between two cocos palms.
The hammock having carved
...