Herbert Nehrlich Poems

Hear ye, hear ye what I'm about
to tell you about Sauerkraut.
The latest study has revealed
that Cabbage grown out in the field
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It was a single dropp of dew
first scraped together by tiny feet
of two Rockhampton bugs,
that fell into the eye of the untamed shrew
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A little bell had rung,
and in the meadow
the sound of birds,
perhaps a nightingale,
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He had an inkling,
but could not put a finger
or even just a thumbnail onto it.
And how, it did occur,
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Accountants have their lists of course.
They flash them everywhere they go,
put names that pay or want to know
what all these figures mean for them.
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A carrot top, all olive green
was growing next to a green bean.
Said carrot, 'what's your date of birth
when did they plant you in the earth? '
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There once was a preacher named Mack.
He was tall and exceedingly black.
He was caught with a maid
in a state sponsored raid
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A leopard who was fond of mice
and claimed to have no other vice
was killed by a rhinoceros,
which really wasn't a great loss
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Once in his life, his breath was free
a beating heart, it knew its place
the knowledge of identity
was etched upon his weathered face.
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A man who thought he needed wings
to fly above the lands of kings
woke up one morning with a pair
that been stitched from angel hair.
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