S M O K E & M I R R O R S
Dear Poet,
Please do tell us,
Do say. SPEAK
Of what is “Human”?
Shakespeare
Writing writing writing
Again & again
About love &
Betrayal.
And Mr. Blake,
Always writing
About all those winged angels above
Whilst Lucifer
Sits alone in his
Basement still sulking over
His big breakup
With God.
To be
Or not to be
Love, love me do,
Do you still love me?
Are we through
Etc etc etc.
Etc….”Blah.
But the real, the same question
Still and always remains.
What is love?
What does it mean?
And is it ever enough?
Ever?
For the sirens
Are still all singing upon
the shores,
And the muses are all still
Dancing upon
The waves
Of Humanity
To inspire.
The next.
The last.
The true.
The dead.
So is this what it
Is to be? Or not to
Be? Exist or to not exist at all
As the universe merely spins away.
To feel
With consequence
Or hate?
But my dear poet;
God or savior
It all forever stays the same.
As you light up another cigarette
And slowly exhale the smoke
Into the dark night
Like words.
For it’s all done
With smoke & mirrors
_____________
R.M. Engelhardt 2011
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R.M. Engelhardt is a poet, writer and author who over the last two decades has published over 16 books of poetry including "Nod" "Logos" "Alchemy" & "The Last Cigarette: The Collected Poems of R.M. Engelhardt. The founder of the Upstate NY organization Albany Poets & the Annual Poetry Celebration The Albany Word Fest he has through his ideas & visions helped to contribute a large amount of advocacy and creativity to the Spoken Word~Poetry Capital District scene and is the former host of the long running readings Vox, Propaganda, Listen & currently is creating a new resurrection of one of the area's most well known open mics for poetry and spoken word THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT in Troy, NY held on the last Wednesday evening of each month at the incredible nightclub/speak easy bar THE BERLIN IN TROY NY. His writing has also been published by many journals such as The Rye Whiskey Review, Red Fez, Rusty Truck, Sure! The Charles Bukowski Newsletter, Thunder Sandwich, The Hobo Camp Review, Full of Crow, on the Outlaw Poetry Network & in many many others.
Look for his books "WHERE THE PEOPLE'S VISION PERISHES 2020" "DARK LANDS (2019 on LuLu, Amazon & At Barnes and Noble) The Resurrection Waltz, 2012 ( Infinity Press) & "COFFEE ASS BLUES & OTHER POEMS" ( 2018 Alien Buddha Press 2018) " DarkLands" 2019 & "Where There Is No Vision" 2020 and his new books, "WE RISE LIKE SMOKE" (2021) & Of Spirit, Ash & Bone (2022) all available on Amazon.com
He is also the Editor of the small independent poetry press DeadMansPressInk.
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