Category: The New Verse Movement
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THE UNNECESSARY ANGEL OF POETRY One-daySoon after the glamor had faded The sun ate all her flowersHer milk & honey As Taylor toured AmericaInspiring poetic amnesiaTo kids As old poems & memoriesDied hard & rotted in their graves The dirt All lost to a McGenerationWithout focus Without hope Rhyming incoherentlyAttempting consciousness As someone randomAn unremarkable…
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On Friday, January 20th Donald J. Trump will be sworn in as The President of the United States of America. This will be a very sad day indeed. And as poets and writers everywhere we need to speak up and say what needs to be said, and share those words with our nation…
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Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. ~ Jim Harrison
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All the earth and air With thy voice is loud _________ Death Is Here And Death Is There I. Death is here and death is there, Death is busy everywhere, All around, within, beneath, Above is death—and we are death. II. Death has set his mark…
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“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” ~ C. S. Lewis
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Poetry is much much more than all of the definitions, theories or explanations that you read or hear about everyday. Poetry is not just a form, a quote or one or two popular poets or pop stars in the media. Poetry is not hip hop or gangsta rap, slam or new formalism, gay or straight,…
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I Just Recently Found Out That There Are a Few Copies Of My Book From 2002 “NOD” Still Available To The Public Out There. Hope You Will Pick Up A Copy! ~ R.M.
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Hello To All My WordPress Friends, Welcome to the new and improved R.M. Engelhardt website and as always thank you for stopping by to read a poem or perhaps just find some inspiration. Here are five new poems published by The Outlaw Poetry Network which are forthcoming from my next book of poetry “The Bones…
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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…
