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Mechanism
Spillwords.com presents: Mechanism, poetry written by R.M. Engelhardt, a poet, writer, minister
Source: Mechanism
Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer R.M. Engelhardt 05/22/19
To be great is to be misunderstood.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded lips! Sew them up with packthread, do. Else, if you would be a man, speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood! Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
~ Emerson
If You Worship Power — You’ll Always Be Powerless
WALT WHITMAN IS DEAD
Happy 200th Birthday Walt …
WALT WHITMAN IS DEAD
Where are you now?
Uncle?
Poet?
Walt?
Old man, child of the Long Island
Free verse son of America,
Teacher & government work-man?
?Human – Being?
Citizen
Man? Mind of the spirit
Spirit, in the flesh
Where have you gone?
Disappeared
Now a ghost
Among the leaves,
The rest.
Uncle,
I see your name written in
School books and upon the wind
And within the rain,
And I still hear your songs fill the air
In the forests & the city streets
Body ? Electric.
But father?
Uncle?
Where are you now?
Where have you been?
Gone, gone away from
What you loved most, the land
Yet buried beneath the green
Green meadows, valleys & time
Of ages.
Meditating within the oldest of trees
Silent thru out new ages.
For a book is merely paper
But a voice must ask or say
Invoke yea and awaken…
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Drunkenness
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
~ Seneca

POET : May 18th 1980
When one word took different meaning in Sh4.8m tax dispute -R.M. Engelhardt Quoted In Kenya
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