Herbert Nehrlich Poems

So, come look at me,
let me breathe in your sweetness,
as I marvel at beauty that should not exist.
As you dance with me
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At birth there is a fleeting spark
that signals hasty flight from dark.
Throughout our lives we never shed
that link which binds us to the dead.
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The doorbell rang, I jumped to see
there stood three men in suits,
and bulges (were they meant for me?)
plus black and shiny boots.
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My name is Olaf Dangelmaier
I am accused to be a liar,
a traitor to the King at that
a coward, ugly like a rat.
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Accept the past,
sadness,
tears.
Suffering and
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Just once I turned my cluttered head
'twas late here in Down Under
so off I went to find my bed
outside was storm and thunder.
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I have been told the truth,
only a human valve will do,
the doctor said it is the endocardium,
it always kills before the next full moon.
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Envy is the colour green
like a tasty garden bean.
Some of us are colourblind,
if they aim to go and find
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'Will you, Sir, sign this petition..
yes I see you're going fishing,
but this matter must be solved
so you need to get involved.'
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It was the little lines and grooves,
the pores in soft, pigmented skin
the memory of taste and touch
that reared its pesky head,
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