Category: The New Verse Movement
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Death is a beautiful car parked only to be stolen on a street lined with trees whose branches are like the intestines of an emerald. You hotwire death, get in, and drive away like a flag made from a thousand burning funeral parlors. You have stolen death because you’re bored. There’s nothing good playing at…
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“That’s all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.” ~ Raymond Carver
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded lips! Sew them up with packthread, do. Else, if you would be…
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“There is ‘true’ Knowledge. Learn thou it is this: To see one Changeless Life in all that lives, And in the Separate, One Inseparable. There is imperfect Knowledge: that which sees The separate existences apart, And, being separated, holds them real. There is false Knowledge: that which blindly…
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Sometimes it’s great, and sometimes it’s shit. These are the things all the great philosophers just won’t tell you flat out about life. You keep moving, keep living, keep breathing And you keep writing-creating because that’s what you do And that’s who you are. There are no magical voices to guide You except your own. Make…
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I wear hope around my neck like a noose. It’s loose enough for me to breathe when I need to get me through the day. And, with each swagger and sway, comes a new belief that there’s a new relief around the way. So I keep going, halfway knowing it’s just a trick my mind…
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The Resurrection Waltz – The New Book of Poetry from R.M. Engelhardt, An Interview With Albany Poets
The Resurrection Waltz – The New Book of Poetry from R.M. Engelhardt, An Interview With Albany Poets.
