Category: Poetry
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The Last Cigarette: The Collected Poems Of R.M. Engelhardt These are the earlier collected works of Albany, NY based poet, writer & author R.M. Engelhardt who has published several books over the last two decades. Engelhardt through his ideas & visions has helped to create a large amount of the Upstate, Albany, NY spoken word~poetry…
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Poetry and cigarettes May save your soul, Or what once Someone told me Before I grew old, And scotch and women? It’s all the same, For these four things Shall keep you quite sane But now that I’m older And wiser for wear I know it’s only love That keeps our…
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“The spirit lives as long as someone who lives remembers you” An angel goes to her rest, Never more to suffer. God brings her soul to Heaven. Earth buries what she left behind. Lo, though we cry for her sleep. Alive, shall she always remain. ~ Unknown ________________ “Death steals…
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“Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand’ring bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.” ~ William Shakespeare
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O World of many worlds, O life of lives, What centre hast thou? Where am I? O whither is it thy fierce onrush drives? Fight I, or drift; or stand; or fly? The loud machinery spins, points work in touch; Wheels whirl in systems, zone in zone. Myself having sometime moved with such, Would strike…
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I am the wandering poet, I do not sleep I am wasting these days in the dregs Of the deep. I live in the church of myself Bizarre & unfulfilled, The spirit of the waking man, And the fool, the reckless fool. For I am walking round the circle From the outside looking…
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And in this corner; It’s the hollow man & The drunken muse And that song That goes like this’ As the rain came down Upon the city streets & poets, sonnets And upon all of the earth As If Mozart had just Written it all for you On a Saturday night Himself…
