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Best Poems From
HERBERT NEHRLICH
(04 October 1943)
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Error
It's a great windy day
out on Goldwater Bay.
Not a single boat out
and no swimmers about.
It's because of a glitch
in the Pentagon, which
tripped the nuclear lever
in a misguided fever
and a million and one
then exploded. We're done.
Herbert Nehrlich
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1278.
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Error Of Creation
Is it an empty space,
a hole so dark, invisible
or could it be
that rotten gas
has filled it
for eternity?
What value then,
oh, rationale
the work of forces
of the devil?
How could creation
mock itself
produce a blob
of utter shame
and warm it
with the sun's
own rays?
Herbert Nehrlich
Read more: work poems, dark poems, sun poems
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Es Sei Wahr
Es ist ein Fluch der sitzt am Berge Aeskulaps
er sucht sie heim, die Bauern und die Pfaffen,
man findet Ungereimtes innen doch,
Dukaten rollen, langsam vor sich hin.
Es ist ein lineares Feld, das man betritt
doch hat der Koerper keine Geraden, nimmermehr,
denn wenn Stimme und die Seele zu ihm spricht
dann heilt der Arzt und nicht die Pille der Chemie.
Sie treiben ein das grosse Geld und laecheln sanft
'Sie sind ja krank mein Herr, ich sehe es sehr klar.'
Wer sieht die Schande, und die Scham, bist Du es denn?
Wir muessen beten dass was gestern war ist wahr.
Herbert Nehrlich
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1280.
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Escape
One foot immersed
the plan rehearsed,
then off at speed
to do the deed.
Two hours on
the moon had gone.
The river flowed
kind willows bowed.
He must have caught
a glimpse but thought
I'll let him pass
won't tell the brass.
And fate did swim
(just as a whim)
alongside sweetly
although discreetly.
She quickly kissed
rose in the mist
tend to another
perhaps his mother.
Who sat with tears
and choking fears
at home alone
right by the phone.
She had to wait
in that sad state
until it rang
or for the bang
of shots out west
beyond the crest
of river's waves
where someone braves
incarceration
in one small nation
so many died
and mothers cried.
Herbert Nehrlich
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