The first song
Is innocence.
The last song
Is dirt.
And the summer
Is now gone along with
The heart and the flesh,
From diseases known & unknown
Which constantly
Remind us that
If we are anything
We are flawed.
Human in the eyes to be inhuman
Noble to all our fellow creatures
Except our fellow man,
Woman or child, reporter
“Or God”
And when I was a kid
Isis was a superhero on television,
A Goddess who fought for truth & justice
That now the pathetic
Have now turned
Into a bitch
And the open light
Is now once again
Vanishing from
Our very souls
Yes, the summer is over
The summer is gone
But in the end of all ends
It is the light that depends
Upon you no matter
How dark it gets
Keep fighting.
__________________
~ R.M. Engelhardt
08.29.14
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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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