Herbert Nehrlich Poems

She talked about my latest offerings
as if they had with eager little feet
rushed over to her Lazyboy Recliner
to climb up on her lap and talk so sweet
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There once was a lady from Greece
she suffered from badly worn teeth.
Her incisors were loose
she was long in the tooth
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So, watch this space
there will be more,
and, just in case
others adore
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He took it all,
well packed
and planned.
The talents and
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I wasn't home that stormy night
the fragrance of pink Frangipani had
forever captured me, that bittersweet
magician of soft velvet, alight
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A frosty morning of new Spring,
just before the ancient copper bell
commenced its plaintiff sounds
sending them from the monastery
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Are the cookies like rookies
or what is the reason
they inhabit my drive
and come out in the season
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She wore her pink dress 'cause it fits.
then the sirens announced the big Blitz.
On the way to the cellar
she ran into a feller
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God blends, amends
and likes it when our sense
which quite occasionally depends
on odds and ends
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A hairy, freckled, frilly lizard
was, underneath it all, a wizard.
He lived inside my monitor
don't ask me what he lived there for.
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