Herman Poems - Poems about Herman

Glancing at him from the window's glass, It felt as though the railway had taken away his joy. Sometimes his hard stares or into nothingness. Being nouveau to the town; from my madam I heard his tale, He was a miser with her, his woven bag of pearls. Her Milkyway skin had an equivalence to jade, Lips rosy from his unending...

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His name was Paul Reubens but many people knew him as Pee-Wee. He was a famous entertainer and he lost his life at the age of seventy. When he starred in Pee-Wee's Playhouse, he entertained children. Sadly, Pee-Wee Herman has died and we will never see him again. He starred in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Big Top Pee-Wee and Pee-Wee's...

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There was nothing out there like it When Paul Reuben’s show first aired. To the Pee Wee’s Playhouse family, No one else could be compared. There was Globey (yes, a talking globe) And Chairry (yes, a chair), Plus a host of wacky others, All with silliness to spare. Cowboy Curtis, Mr. Window, Blue-faced Jambi, Miss Yvonne, Pterri, Reba, Randy, Conky, Oh, the list goes on and...

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Herman heard me, The howl of a nation. Scourged! I was usurped, And I was atomized! Toivo came, a solemn tide He contrived the paradiddle That led to my autonomy. Toivo, the inexorable current That ringed a contrasting atoll. Archracist criminalized him Yet Herman endured unmitigated, His heart never inuring to my cry. His oratorical showers watered The long rocky road...

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Herman Cain Purdue University gaud work full-time as a ballistics analyst and the U.S. Department of the Navy as a civilian completed master's degree Purdue started working for Coca-Cola as computer systems analyst later join Pillsbury, becoming director of business analysis in its restaurant and foods group assigned to analyze and manage 400 Burger King stores ...

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Herman Cain was his name And he headed up a pizza chain No virtue signaler was he ~ Opened up jobs in the black community...

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An old-fashioned modern Jew He was brilliant, unique Weaving the strands of tradition Into best-selling novels sleek A Navy man, aboard a WW2 mine-sweep Mr. Wouk loved letters, his country, and Talmudic wisdom, from which his works drew deep Herman Wouk, the prolific novelist and lifelong student of the Talmud, has...

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I sit here cursing at Herman Hollerith, and his foolish punch card machine, trying to make base-2 make sense in a base-10 world. Now I can add and subtract as well as any man, But peeking where I poked is really a hard call, much harder than it looks! Though I've received compliments for my two's-complement notation. Some people...

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Europe claims a lengthy list of lusty wars One graced the Church with Brother Lawrence A giant of a man, hated being dishwasher and cobbler At a large monastery in Lorraine, France After the Thirty Years War, intimacy with Jesus Made him forget every pain, his lame leg, isolation As he came to know and see Grace face to face Practising God's...

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Saturday mornings were the best How I loved to catch your show Your high energy naughtiness Your effervescence was contagious Delighted me and left me in awe Peeking my curiosity and Capturing my imagination So creative and quirky Meticulously choreographed Perky and hysterically funny A surprise around every corner I was way older than what Anyone would call a big kid But you made me fall in love With...

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As ev’ry flower wilts and ev’ry youngster 11 Must age, so manifests each stage of living, 11 All wisdom blossoms too and ev’ry virtue 11 Enjoys its time, and cannot last forever. 11 At ev’ry call of life, the heart of man should, 11 (Without regret and wrapped in heroism) 11 Embrace each new departure, each commencement, 11 And find your joy in life’s imagination. ...

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As every blossom wilts and every youth Yields to old age so manifests every stage of life, All wisdom and every virtue Has its time, and cannot last forever. At every call of life, the heart, Wrapped in bravery and without regret, Must be ready to take its leave and start again, To embrace each new adventure. For a magic lives in each...

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Brian’s Poet of Note – ‘Herman Hesse’ Week 2 This week I thought I would discuss translating poetry from another language. I just finished retranslating from German this poem ‘Stufen’ from Hesse’s famous novel ‘The Glass Bead Game’) but it has been a favorite of mine for a long time. I first translated it 50 years...

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23 may 2013 8:36 am Mathew Herman Vain A child who had no name Was killed before he was born His cell from his kidneys was torn Cloned and named HEK293 Those cells they use to satisfy you and me They use it in processes to make vaccines And process for artificial flavors obscene He had no name as from his mother he was...

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My old cat Herman sure looks like vermin When we douse him with a bucket of water His teeth start to chatter, gets mad as a hatter His master, he'd sure like to slaughter! With unearthly growls, slinks round on the prowl For a spot to get back his lost dignity Under the couch he retreats like a grouch We crack...

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