Herbert Nehrlich Poems

There once was a lonely banana
pretty ugly but otherwise sana.
Poet Allan came by
dressed it up on the sly
...

An alley cat with scruffy hair
got into the old pigeon house.
And all it wanted was its share
of pigeon meat, because a mouse
...

Oh, what a larrikin he was,
half boy, the other half a unicorn,
that sunburnt, smiling face
a wardrobe of bland regulation
...

Up early just to do some sports
is JC in his boxershorts.
He likes the flowers and the bells
but buys what JC Penney's sells.
...

A bus trip through the Northern Beaches,
it slowed to fifty near the houses,
the dark haired lady, one who teaches
about the past and thus arouses
...

You send from
the outbox to
the inbox
so that
...

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?
...

The little man inside my skull
who makes me write some rather dull
and even boring diatribes
has just this morning sent some vibes
...

A letter from a friend
arrived today.
Tidbits of news,
the local flood
...

I always knew
that some day
I would find you
and love you.
...