Category: R.M. Engelhardt
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DOOMED IN VANITY The Voices Storming allThe castle wallsFrom all directionsPlaces & homesWith words Phrases It’s now all a game Like chessOr maybe checkers Check Mate Human cadaversHuman wretch &Apathy Popularity Writhing Across the board Some? The gatekeepersThe stormsThe lost& faithful souls All the believersAnd the vultures SearchingTrolling Looking for a bite To eat All…
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THE GATHERING All candles lit In the dark room The ritual begins With smoke, The ceremony A series of words summoning Invoking the voices Of The Dead More than a mere event The table a Connection Holding hands The seance begins Are you here? Are you with us? Show us A sign A single Fall…
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HAVE YOU FOUND JESUS? Excuse me but … Have You Found Jesus? Yes He was wanderingHomeless through the park soI bought him a sliceOf pizza Have You Found Jesus? Yes He was freezing outsideOn the street in an oldSleeping bagIn thirty degree weather oldWith no job or dreamsOr stories left to tell Have You Found…
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LEWISTON They said: 18 people were killed13 others were injured They said: Stay inside Lock all your doors Pray for others Stay safe But what doorWhat prayerAnd what GodWill save you? Against aHail of bulletsRipping throughThe darkness ofThe night? Taking away allThe living All their lives They say In one of the safest statesIn the…
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No One is Coming To Save You. Write Poetry. ~ R.M. Engelhardt ©2023
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META-CRISIS RADIO SILENCE Good Evening We are just experiencing a few technical difficulties But no worries Just ignore it all The burning & the lethal flowThe weather just a little bit off but noNothing to worry about here at all noNo no no not a thing not at all as the leaves fallingFrom the trees…
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I know who sleeps, who walks by night, who thrives and who does not. I hear the music as they waltz under the eyes of the man in the moon, the wind dancing towards the darkness. I know the reason and the rhyme and the silence, the signs of prophecy, I know of all their…
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THIS SATURDAY OCTOBER 14TH 2023 ! 6 to 9PM ! STEP INTO THE DARK 💀 ++++++ DEEP INTO THAT DARKNESS PEERING:A DARK READING OF THE POEMSOF EDGAR ALLAN POE. AN EVENING OF SCARY TALES READ BY NOTED POET& AUTHOR R.M. Engelhardt AT ARMORY STUDIOS NY125 Washington AvenueSchenectady, NY 12305 https://www.armorystudiosny.com/events +++++++++ Over these many years…
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Telegraphic missives from the bleak future of now taking in spirit machine and blood . A faint hope beyond hopelessness still guiding the words . ~ Steve Kilbey, ( Musician, Author, Poet) From The Band The Church MAN IAmTheGreatVultureABirdOfPreyFlyingInCirclesGoingNowhereKillingEverythingISeeEspeciallyTheWeakTheDisabledTheInjuredTheOnesWhoAren’tLikeMe AndWhenAllThoseSoulsAreGoneI’llFindNewOnesToFeedUponEvenMyOwnReflectionUntilThereIsNothing Left ~ A Poem From Dark Lands“R.M. Engelhardt ©2019
