OF CONVERSATIONS
FRIENDS & ANGELS
Today
I come to you
In the memory
Of old friends
Conversation
Over lost time
And lost years
That have
Mysteriously
Vanished
In both tragedy
And revelation
Grief
And silence
Detached from
This mere
Mortal coil
To remember them;
They who were
Once here and
They who once loved
And who we all
Once were once
Upon a time long
Ago as well
In a love, a friendship
A moment
Meant with soul
So fiercely
Now
Vauge
Idle
In dreaming
For you see
As we go on
Our minds
Have learned to
Play tricks
Deceptions
In a veil of youth
& passing days
Drunken illusions
And insignificant
Slights now
Forgotten
Replaced by
What was once in our
Hearts our true
Appearance
A realization
That to be human
Is to be flawed
But these things
Are small pins
Needles
Inconsequential
Now forgotten
So in coming years
We shall sit down & remember them
And have a conversation
Like old friends
Should have like
All friends living
Until
Into the light &
The brilliance
Of angels
We go
Onto
To the next
Mortal
Dream
Without remorse
~ R.M. Engelhardt
03.16.2019
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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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