Category: R.M. ENGELHARDT, THE RESURRECTION WALTZ
R.M. ENGELHARDT, THE RESURRECTION WALTZ WEBSITE www.rmengelhardt.com
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IN THE ABSENCE OF LIGHTS 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…
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Everyday we lose a little part of ourselves to the rest of the world. The only thing we can do is save that part in our hearts, soul, retrieve it daily from the ashes And write. ~ R.M. Engelhardt
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2 shots = happiness 3 shots = love While 4 shots will make you Bukowski or at least you think so at the bar. and 5 shots will make you a genius as you stumble towards the mic, as you mumble something incredible and all the other drunks applaud (and…
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MICHAEL Wednesday. Your keys were stolen by the devil; she used them to open all the doors of distortion and sound, to turn out all of the lights living in the waking moment when all of the young gods had grown old. Club Extinction, where life is blood & pain. Reality, a new dialect of…
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But his being a poet has made him a revolutionary who must fight on all terrains: on the terrain of poetry by appropriate means and on the terrain of social action, without ever confusing the two fields of action under penalty of re-establishing the confusion that is to be dissipated and consequently ceasing to…
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Prose Hyperbole! From my memory Triumphantly can’t you Rise today, like sorcery From an iron-bound book or two: Since, through science, I inscribe The hymn of hearts so spiritual In my patient work, inside Atlas, herbal, ritual. We walked set our face (We were two, I maintain) Toward the many charms of place, Compared them,…
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“Poetry presupposes an inspired knowledge of man’s sensuous and spiritual nature. Smithcraft—for the smith was also carpenter, mason, shipwright, and toolmaker—presupposes an inspired knowledge of how to transform lifeless material into active forms. No ancient smith would have dared to proceed without the aids of medicine and poetry. The charcoal used on his forge…
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Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece…
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appetite for creation by steve kilbey saint steven shot with light unfathomable ineffable god needed some cat to dig some parts of his creation that no one was picking up on and so he created me he chucked me together nearly sixty years ago and he said to me as he has always said to…
