Herbert Nehrlich Poems

You see in troubled skies above
bizarre-edged Ebenezer clouds,
a fluffy-feathered steel-gray dove
just soaring into distant doubts.
...

They talked about it,
all night and then
the day that followed.
It was a question
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That blasted dream again.
I was in the neighbourhood
where gangsters of big business
and small sandwich shops compete.
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I was thinking last night.
Close to midnight,
when midnight madness
drifts in from the regions
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The sign said COLD ROOM in bold letters.
The hometown cemetery needed
a storage place for the departed
to rest their worn out bones three days.
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...and if YOU are the crust
and I am the filling
I would think that you must
be so ready and willing
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I have these dreams of late,
cannot be helped says I,
and if you want debate
about the how and why
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She said something exquisite here today:

'It's like you're standing -warts and all- no mercy, naked.
Exposed to hungry eyes of your new handsome lover.
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A flea sat in the poodle's hair
because he had been stationed there.
His mother left to bug a cat
that's where she stayed and soon got fat.
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She was exceedingly flat.
No fruit or other edible
could be used to describe,
in interpretative comparison
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