R.M. ENGELHARDT
Poet Writer Author Albany NY
Category: Inspiration
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The Aesthetics Of Anger When said the moon to the stars in the sky A small boy was born upon the day his mother died Upon his 30th day did also rise An only son in September. And when he was young and death did follow Him like a bird and left him hollow…
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And now alas yet another poem from my destructions, You, witness to and here in new flesh and new skin. The skin of hero, the skin of snake, the skin of monster, the skin of saint all Gradually and eventually shedding piece by piece living and dying and Reinventing the world. Poems, photographs, enemies and…
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I have spent most of my life (like most people)avoiding transcendence at all costs, mainlybecause the shit hurts. Merely defining transcen-dence can sometimes be painful. I once heard that“Transcendence is the act of going through some-thing”. Ouch. I see plate glass windows anddivorces. Someone else told me that it was “risingabove whatever one encountered in…
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Cutter’s Way emerged at the wrong time, a 70s film in 1981, after Heaven’s Gate, during the death rattle of the ‘Hollywood brats’ era. We were now in Reagan’s America, where odd, ambiguous little films that suggested dark truths about the US of A would become increasingly unwelcome. Its titular character was the wrong kind of Vietnam…
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The early hours of morning: you still aren’t writing (rather, you aren’t even trying), you just read lazily. Everything is idle, quiet, full, as if it were a gift from the muse of sluggishness, just as earlier, in childhood, on vacation, when a colored map was slowly scrutinized before a trip, a map promising…
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“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that…
