Herbert Nehrlich Poems

A thoughtful message sent in time
is more effective as a rhyme.
You see, inside each cluttered mind
there is temptation to be kind.
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Has poetryhound
on the Kahoona Playground
been finally found?
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While sitting on a hollow log
I noticed a small, handsome frog,
he came to me, quite unafraid
and said 'we need to find some shade.'
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Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods or steepy mountain yields.
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A rabbit is a furry thing
its fluffiness is magic,
a rabbit cannot speak or sing,
but is a coprophagic.
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And there we stood, the family,
foremost in black and closed off faces.
Then sevenhundred folks from town,
they all had come to give respect
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First cut is from the top
slice down the sternum
add side excursions
just above the breasts
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I sat, against the root of a dishevelled casuarina,
the storm had been too violent for its tender face
a horde of hungry crabs and shiny Fiji beetles
have made a gala dinner of the saprophytes,
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Who now would move to Arizona,
or California at that
we shall not talk about corona
or corazon to take to bed.
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Napoleon did start the fad
it was because he never had
enough to spend for soldier food
to keep them in the proper mood.
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