Herbert Nehrlich Poems

All creatures deep inside are quite aware
that it's the heart and, with it, its sweet beat
only its never-ending flutter lets us share
a bit of time upon this planet, where we meet
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I know people, not many,
who do seem to
for reasons
known to them,
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It was the sixties when he came
from nowhere in particular, it seemed.
The country was divided into haves
and have-nots, as is usually the case.
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Once you have tasted milk and honey
your buds are in a state of bliss.
Your world has suddenly turned sunny,
your lips remembering the kiss.
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'Twas just a dog, I tell myself.
An animal like any other-
one gets a new one off the shelf,
forgets the old one and her mother.
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Driving my fancy automobile,
down a Nevada country road,
asking myself 'how do you feel'
running over a sleepy toad.
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Language, religion,
poverty, greed
are the causes
of many an
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I have always wondered what it means
when someone using oral means
says something so colloquial
that it is understood by all
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I thought that I would never find
a better poet with a mind
that works in strange but fertile fields
and throws at us the stuff it yields
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Aunt Hulda, she slept in the nude
I stayed over, she called me a dude
Uncle Fritz told me 'NO'
in the closet you go
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