Herbert Nehrlich Poems

Ten years ago, in Tennessee
I grew myself a money tree.
The money came in all-green leaves
my shepherd kept away the thieves.
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I like the chemistry of you,
your physics and biology,
each molecule must be
what others only dream of.
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In the beginning
you left me, no warning
other than the slamming
of the solid timber door.
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The sign said 'Liege'.
A smelly town in proper Belgium.
The stop was short,
much distance lay ahead.
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A limerick dedicated to HRH Prince Leonard, * for his 79th Birthday.
A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR PRINCE LEONARD! ! ! !

There once was a farmer named Leonard,
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Over at the river's bank
stands my buddy, Mellow Frank,
thinking of the German Tank
that he observed right where it sank
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La Louve et L’Autour


‘Twas night in the forest, with hardly a sound,
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I never told you this before,
but at the hospital they gave
a bit of sodium pentothal,
it was the Swiss one,
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For those who jump
when friendship beckons
and seal their pact in miniseconds
go from a grump
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I saw her shadow first,
that Sunday afternoon,
'twas luck the bus was late
there was no better sight
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