R.M. ENGELHARDT

Poet Writer Author Albany NY

Category: Poetics

  • (IN THE BEGINNING) The sun is a huntress young, The sun is a red, red joy, The sun is an indian girl, Of the tribe of the Illinois. (MID-MORNING) The sun is a smouldering fire, That creeps through the high gray plain, And leaves not a bush of cloud To blossom with flowers of rain.…

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    “It is the quality of one’s convictions that determines success, not the number of followers.” ~ Remus   Thanks For Your Support And For Following “The Resurrection Waltz” ! http://www.rmengelhardt.com  

  •  Air here is like the water Of an aquarium that’s been lived in for a while—clear and still                              Beyond the rigors Of glass; appearing cold (and clear) as spring streams                      …

  •     “The task is … not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.” ~  Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961)

  • Christopher Marlowe … Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come; Fair Nature’s eye, rise, rise again and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul! O lente, lente, curite…

  • Happy Birthday, Percy Bysshe Shelley Born 4 August 1792, died 8 July 1822:     Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ…

  • Pushing verses Past Their Limits …

    By Lynn Alexander, Full of Crow Magazine     R.M. Engelhardt acknowledges that there is a difference between the passive participant and those who live a passion-driven life, but can often be seen in “Versus” wondering if there is a difference in the end. Passion clearly perpetuates the creative imperative, manifest in poets like Engelhardt…