R.M. ENGELHARDT

Poet Writer Author Albany NY

Category: Poetry

  • Dark-mirrored hallways a dim precision march Here we have tread before Without fear/Well measured Pagan desires and objective Study. Pavlov’s dog is still Breathing, his cigarette falls To the floor and he dances like a manic animal. Lost in the headlights, accidents shall occur once more. There are no excuses left for avatars, no reasons…

  • Even so, when the framework of the world is dissolved, and the final hour, closing so many ages, reverts to pristine chaos, then the fiery stars will drop into the sea, and the earth will shake off the ocean…and the whole distracted firmament will overthrow its laws.” ~ Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan, Roman Poet)

  • “We never change! Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we’re so slow about it that it’s no use. We were born loyal, and that’s what killed us! Soldiers free of charge, heroes for everyone else, talking monkeys, tortured words, we are the minions of King Misery. He’s our lord and master!…

  •       “He who lets himself be whored by fashion will be whored by time.” ~ Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again

  • “It has been your habit for long to do away with good writers, You either drive them mad, or else blink at their suicides, Or else you condone their drugs, and talk of insanity and genius, But I will not go mad to please you.” ~ Ezra Pound

  •       “For me the poem and the poetry open mic isn’t about competition and it never will be. Honestly? It’s wrong. The open mic is about 1 poet, one fellow human being up on a stage or behind a podium sharing their work regardless of what form or style they bring to it.…

  • What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find the inspiration. Hell is suddenly finding the words but being away from your notebook or typewriter. Hell is when the verses slip away through your fingers and they never return again. ~ R.M.…

  • “Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty,…

  •   She said; “If you ever tell me that you love me I’m afraid that I’ll have to leave.” So not wanting to ever lose her he bent down, got close and softly whispered in her ear, “Lust…..Lust…..Lust”   ~ R.M. Engelhardt