Herbert Nehrlich Woman Poems

A wise man said a woman's scorn
is given to her when she's born.
She carries it, though under cover,
a secret weapon for a lover
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There really is no gender trap
perhaps a teensie weensie gap,
but one thing needs to be proclaimed
it's once a woman's scorn has aimed
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I am, let it be known, a man who sleeps at night,
never had cause to take a pill or count those sheep.
Yet just one moon ago I woke and switched the light,
it would be hours for my morning clock to beep.
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It was Marlene, no doubt
in that sweet dream.
I had been felled by gout
(too much sweet cream) .
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You first
need to see
if you like.
After all,
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M ild may the mental illness be
E ach day the yearning to be free.
N o friends, no fans and all alone
O ld age established in each bone.
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Of all the men I've known named Jerry
among the nuts he is the berry.
His love writes notes to me signed Allie
ye Gods will surely keep a tally
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The sound first startled him,
a whisper from the world beyond?
He'd always been a man who could
entirely rely on all of them,
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