Herbert Nehrlich Poems

I held your hand
and felt your fingertips,
they pressed into my flesh
as if to urge me on,
...

Anticipation always rules
with silly and with normal fools.
The brain transmits
hormonal bits
...

Only when the last needle,
and the most tenacious ornament
have fallen off this year's tree
and when all bottles are empty,
...

And there it was again.
Eight months without
and hope abundant,
his faith, which was
...

The Pope, at his inauguration
was speaking to the silent nation.
Surrounded by twelve microphones
which would record all local tones.
...

I was dreaming of getting a peck
on the cheek from a poet named Heck.
She had seen one of mine
thought it was like fine wine
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Friends, this is
NO JOKE.
We are
CLEARLY
...

A freckle on my Grandpa's nose,
was prominent, but I suppose
it did not bother him in life.
Though Grandma, who had been his wife
...

...and as the fragrance
of the pussylillies begins....
to intoxicate you, warming.....
as it does, your nostrils......
...

On poemhunter's busy streets
your average Joe most surely meets
if so inclined, the cream of words
one finds the free spirits and nerds,
...