Herbert Nehrlich Poems

Use three percent peroxide, dear
first in the nose, then in the ear.
Those nasty germs will run and scatter
and from the nostrils greenish matter
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There once was a handsome green frog
who resided inside an old log.
He had cut two small vents
in the log for defense
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A stork built on the roof a nest,
he had just recently been blessed
with what he called his feathered dream:
Long legs, a beak of crimson cream
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A mouse looked through a tiny crack
to see the farmer and his spouse
who opened what she had brought back
from shopping back here to the house.
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Out of the hollow clouds
swaying in endless skies
fall with their desperate cries
raindrops like wayward kids.
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God will you help me just today.
I am confronted by a velvet skinned young maiden.
Or should I say presented with her by the grace of...YOU?
Her skin is softer than your own chamois
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Alas, it follows that
true love is
just an animal
that always must
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I wrote a poem without preambles,
the subject was those prickly brambles.
I dedicate it now to you
so wear it if it fits. The shoe.
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The son of God,
his only one.
They nailed him
to the cross.
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A beetle shat upon my eye,
while I was sleeping soundly
beneath my favourite willow tree
it was an act of love.
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