THE COMMON MAN
The Common Man
Sits in the workplace
Breaks his back in
The factory & writes
Poetry
On the side
Doesn’t give
Two shits about
What the big wide world
Thinks too busy
To deal with those
Who have superiority
Complexes
Issues
& Destroys them
All with a mere
Sentence
Moves on
Keeps writing
The Common Man
Sees what is & what
Could be
Could’ve been
Celebrates
Life & freedom &
Lives in the moment
Doesn’t have time
To deal with other
Writers writing issues
Theories, speculations
Negativity, anger
And Just writes
Just lives
For himself &
Whoever with his words
Might find
Touch
Don’t like what he says?
Doesn’t matter
To him
He just writes
Just cares about
The voices in his
Head that say
“THIS”
Because he
Knows, realizes
That poetry is
Spiritual poetry is
That which is a part
Of the mystery
Of being human
Without compromise
Without explanation
Because
The Common Man
Or the Common Woman
Has more to say than
Those who cannot perceive
Cannot connect
From all walks of life
From all colors, religions
Places & souls
For these are the real voices
From the real world
In which we live
The Common Man
~ R.M. Engelhardt
©2022
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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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