Herbert Nehrlich Poems

It was expected that I look
up to the sky, this holy day.
Stared back a cirrus cloud
all puffed and full of pride.
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On the day of your birth
all the Gods were agreed
that to send you to earth
as a miniature seed
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Lovely Gina ate cake with some icing
I was there, just to help with the slicing.
Took my eyes off the cake
which was one big mistake.
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Ahhhh, there it is, that iron bridge
long missed and standing still
aglow above the rushing waters,
a golden moon suspended high,
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The priest who now in silence knelt
a man of God, not of the Welt,
became aware he had been dealt
a blow below his holy belt.
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A surgeon, rich but low on skills
came down himself with painful ills.
The pharmacist prepared some pills
from herbs he'd gathered in the hills.
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An old and quite obnoxious German
who answered to the name of Hermann
sat in the church to hear the sermon
about the world's disgusting vermin.
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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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Mit weissem Bart und Mantel, lodengruen
sass er, verloren in Gedanken auf der Bank.
er wollte sich ein letztes Mal bemueh'n
doch innen sprach die Stimme, er war sterbenskrank.
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Abandoned by the wayside lay a cork
wearing a hint of purple Beaujolais.
And dreaming of the life force of a stork
he had, because of spirits, lost his way.
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