Herbert Nehrlich Rhyme Poems

Rhyme and meter
totter, teeter,
those who do
(maybe you?) .
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Oh, where is my shepherd
when I need some advice
on the words of a poem
'bout fire and ice.
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I ask you ma'm
can you spare a dime?
And would you take in turn
a lovely rhyme?
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Great highlights of the centuries
that saw big armies on their knees
were poets from the Fatherland
their words for all to understand.
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I have not seen,
nor dreamed
that YOU could be
a being,
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Each poem, said the man, must rhyme
lest it be worth less than a dime.
I think it is like presupposing
that lawns and gardens get a hosing
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Let us welcome the past and embrace the old masters
see Herr Goethe and Schiller and rhyme,
not the modern, incompetent line-breaking blasters
of a silly and empty new time.
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All forum posts shall be in rhyme
all else will be considered crime.
Miss Emily may well object
if there should be a small defect
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A man who really was a clone
stood near the public telephone.
He could not get a dial tone
nor did the little fellow own
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Anything human that tends to be sweet
has its own fanclub, ready to eat.
Sugar and spices like cinnamon, neat
get you glycemic, that's when you meet
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