Category: R.M. ENGELHARDT, THE RESURRECTION WALTZ
R.M. ENGELHARDT, THE RESURRECTION WALTZ WEBSITE www.rmengelhardt.com
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All men should possess a ‘visionary faculty’. Men do not, because they live wrongly. They live too tensely, under too much strain, ‘getting and spending’. But this loss of the visionary faculty is not entirely man’s fault, it is partly the fault of the world he lives in, that demands that men should spend a…
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THE SOUL PARADE Y’know. This poem, ain’t about you. And this poem ain’t about a raging heart Or a saving grace. This poem has nothing to do with the blues,Robert Johnson, the devil or evenAll the saints. And this poem has nothing to do with the paranormal,Demons or the neon electric lights ofNear death,…
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I WAS ONCE DEAD TOO In a famous paintingof Christ nailed toand crucified upon the crossI am the watching leper on the right.And with my one good eyeI watch as Jesus diesand screams up intodarkening sky askinghis father for a reason why? And then, suddenly as the clouds open upand the rain beginsthe Romans scatter like mice,the…
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OCCUPY THE WORDPoetry At The UAG! On Monday, JANUARY 16th the Saint Poem Reading Series will be holding a special event for all those who have poems they would like to share concerning politics, wall street and the current state of the world and America! Poets & Musicians Welcome! What do you have to say? SAINT POEM…
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The World According To Poetry September 3, 2009 By Lena Vanelslander If poetry can represent something meaningful, it is in the way it presents us shared and divergent perceptions of life and the world around us. In “The World according to Poetry” I will present you every fortnight a specific poet who can sway your body…
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It is a great comfort, to my way of thinking,” Charles Dickens wrote in 1847, “that so little is known concerning the poet. The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something should turn up.” “Is it not strange,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in his journals, “that the transcendent…
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IN THE CHURCH OFCOFFEE AND SMOKES “And now, Let us all pray” Ex-hale. Does anybodyHave a cigarette? Let’s all talk about your day,Light up simultaneously. Oh Lord,I need more sugarIn my coffee And not that artificial Crap Confession; One on one,Let’s all talk aboutAll of your sins, Smiling. No hail Mary’s, no regretsFor our God only…
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Under The Hunger Moon … http://rustytruck.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/under-the-hunger-moon-by-r-m-engelhardt/ New Work Published In Rusty Truck
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“The Truce” Christmas 1914 Though World War I had been raging for only four months, it was already proving to be one of the bloodiest wars in history. Soldiers on both sides were trapped in trenches, exposed to the cold and wet winter weather, covered in mud, and extremely careful of sniper shots. Machines guns…
