The time for poets
Has passed.
The time for words
Is gone
I have decided.
Soul & mind
As all the machines
Take over
As heart & guts are
Fucked over by
Commercials, jingles
Liars, assholes &
Trite hallmark cards
That’s it
I give up
I’m finished
I’m done
I lost the fight
And the battle
Took too much
Out of me
I lost the war and
My will for self-preservation
Is gone.
Painting images
With words
And for all of love’s
Considerations.
Pushing verses
Past their limits
To try to reach
Other people
Just another poet,
Now dead on the verge
Of extinction, sitting in
A room by himself
As the next kid
Behind me picks up
His pen and puts it
To paper
Not knowing
What he is about
To become
Or lose.
__________
R.M. ENGELHARDT
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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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