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Best Poems From
HERBERT NEHRLICH
(04 October 1943)
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Touch
They say the best of tales
are never really told,
and that it never fails
that everyone gets old,
there are so many rules
including those of Moses
it is not only fools
who bring her fragrant roses.
Regardless, what is true
is that the tender touch
in place for me and you
is what I treasure much.
Herbert Nehrlich
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Translation, Rilke Die Erblindende (Losing Her Sight)
She sat there, like the others, having tea,
it seemed she held her cup a different way,
not like the others, it was clear to see.
She smiled, it almost hurt, but once that day.
When they arose and started talking
meandering through rooms, as if by chance,
I looked at her, they laughed as she was walking,
she followed them, too slowly, as in trance.
But hesitating now as if somehow expected
to sing before a crowd, with much at stake,
her smiling eyes alight as they reflected
an inner brightness, coming from a lake.
She followed, hesitating, as it took awhile,
as if some hurdles, to be conquered soon,
and that, advancing still in single file
she surely would be flying and not walking, soon.
Herbert Nehrlich
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Trans-Oesophageal Echocardiogram
Poetry is when you can put
a camera down the feed tube,
call it TOE for trans-esophageal
and then you look at the heart from behind.
It'll tell you a few things
but it won't allow you to look into the
heart of a human being.
For that, you'll have to,
well, you have to....
Herbert Nehrlich
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Triple Limerick
When the angels shed tears it is raining.
When it thunders it's devils in training.
When you sit on the pot
(in a hurry or not) ,
you'll be freeing things better by straining.
Saw a fellow (an old human being) ,
at a Casuarina tree, peeing.
His companion, a dog,
raised his leg on a log,
he was blind and his eyes weren't seeing.
You may ask what I'm smoking or using,
I'd reply that I'm partial to boozing.
Once they call me a hearse
it's too late for a verse,
until then may my words be amusing.
Herbert Nehrlich
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