|
|
|
Best Poems From
HERBERT NEHRLICH
(04 October 1943)
|
|
| |
|
|
353.
|
....and many happy returns
He had just celebrated,
with kindred friends and spirits
his seventieth.
The guests now gone
and one could hear
the squeaking of his rocking chair
accompanied by birds,
who, in the tropics, sing at night
as well, it set the stage
for melancholy reminiscence
about the crossroads he had reached
where spectators just stood,
observing him with friendly faces
and the benevolence of man.
The specialist had said 'you will be fine',
though using neutral words to intimate
that things were in control,
that modern medicine would win
with weapons like FU, his special chemo.
There was a climate that surrounded
and pampered him, as if to say
'because we like you, Jim, you'll be okay.'
And so, there was no need to fret,
to get some order into his affairs.
He looked again at the physician's card,
with HAPPY BIRTHDAY in fluorescent letters.
He read the text again, but searched,
in vain for what was old tradition:
Returns, the many happy ones!
It was not there, perhaps an oversight?
A shadow crossed his tired face
when from within a voice sang out,
it told him what he knew to be
the truth, that this would be his very last.
Herbert Nehrlich
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
354.
|
....Und Lache, Lache, Lache
Man wird im Leben of verkohlt,
das kommt von der Natur.
Wir Alten werden ueberholt
man schickt uns noch zur Kur.
Die Zeit verfliegt, man merkt es kaum
das Jungvolk waechst heran,
man reist zur Kindheit, nur im Traum,
wacht auf als alter Mann.
Sie beissen sich die Zaehne aus
(wir haben kaum noch welche) ,
und spaeter dann, beim Leichenschmaus
da leer'n sie uns're Kelche.
Wir sterben gern, so sagt man uns,
weg mit dem alten Eisen,
der neue Mensch, als Hinz und Kunz
spuckt aus vor alten Greisen.
Die Welt gehoert dem Dollarschein,
der Mensch ist Nebensache
ich trinke heimlich teuren Wein
und lache, lache, lache.
Herbert Nehrlich
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
355.
|
2006
New Year has come, two-thousand-six,
it desperately needs a fix.
The biggest known deficiency
is what we call omega-three.
And further should it be our mission
to guillotine each politician.
Dismantle Medicine as such
since it has lost the human touch.
Dump all the pills into the sea
to spare us so much misery.
And as to humans, there is need
to bring back decency, indeed.
And teach the kids integrity
and that no riches make us free.
Struth! So much more is still required
just thinking of it makes me tired.
Though I shall give this stuff the nod
will it come true? Please ask your God.
Herbert Nehrlich
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
356.
|
27 Haiku Definitions
Death
Inevitable?
Death most certainly is not.
Until it happens.
Birth
Coming out of there
must be the weirdest journey
of any unborn.
Illness
Should illness strike you,
remember that its cousin
is the Grim Reaper.
Marriage
Once you get married
the value of your dollar
will surely dwindle.
Puberty
The boys have stirrings,
the girls are hit by periods.
And buy their first bra.
Money
It is a product
of services performed and
it makes you comfy.
Sex
The main attraction
seems to consist of something
a bit elusive.
Jack Daniel's
Flamboyant Jack was
a genius who made whiskey
that one would strip for.
Vodka
Liquor called Vodka
is made from grain most often.
Potato's better.
Racist
A man with manners,
but somewhat presbyopic
when judging others.
The Devil
He made me do it.
A Hypnotist who knows how.
God did create him.
Automobile
If a Mercedes
it will make you soon forget
lowly Volkswagens.
Doctors
As Nature heals you,
the Doctor watches closely.
Then takes your money.
Lawyers
Opinions differ.
As udders of all cows do.
All lawyers milk them.
Dentists
As you get older
your bark is often bigger.
All dentists like this.
Politicians
They get elected
by dummies who pay money.
And do feel taken.
Homosexuals
Misguided missiles,
finding erotic targets.
While swinging pelvis.
Nude Beach
A bunch of loonies,
comparing in the open
sex apparatus.
Traffic Cop
Man with uniform,
but psychologically
a Robber Baron.
Teacher
Impatient master
of not his own but your life.
Who teaches teachers?
Auto Mechanic
Such greasy fingers,
working on your pride and joy.
And then count money.
Pornography
Money for Honey,
who shows us how we ought to
perform without it.
French Kiss
Sticking one's tongue in,
to count internal structures
above the stomach.
Army
A bunch of soldiers,
who shoot until they run out
of living targets.
War
Old men in bunkers,
pulling the strings of others.
Until they snap off.
Pope
A man of God who
condemns all poverty but
hoards his own riches.
In Love
Overestimate
the difference between them.
It's an illusion.
Herbert Nehrlich
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|