Category: R.M. Engelhardt
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As you get older the more things change – for the better or for the worse. Sometimes being a writer and becoming somewhat of an self-isolationist is like being in a sanctuary and finding your true self, your true voice and words. The outside world never goes away. It will always be there. ~ R.M.…
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REPETITION So let us call this Ruin Civilization Written Upon an ancient Wall Built By the Living Dead Without Empathy Mass Hysteria A history Without Clarity Created By egos Inhuman And not True men A standing Headstone Marking The end Of freedom ~ R.M. ENGELHARDT/2019
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NOSTALGIA ACT Aren’t you that Poet who was famous Once? That poet Who lived Downtown That wore That old leather Jacket & who Was kinda like A punk rock vampire Lord Byron meets Edgar Allan Poe Guy? I really liked That poem you Wrote the young millennial Girl says It was totally awesome My mom…
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https://albanypoets.com/2018/12/the-half-dead-poet-review-2019-the-words-dont-return/
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Originally posted on Erik Rittenberry: Christmas Eve, 103 years ago tonight, the world burns burns burns like the furnace it is, but a hard freeze sets in after an agonizing week of wind & rain along the Western Front. Tired and ragged soldiers on both sides of a senseless, brutal war emerge, with hands up,…
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ONE CIGARETTE “It’s cold out here I’m freezin’ ta death!” An old man Says teeth chattering In his skull I walk past All the bars the Hipsters the vagrants Past the bright lights Of clubs & stores That offer no refuge From the below zero Glare of street lamps And cars …
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The Half Dead Poet Review: The host of The Troy Poetry Mission R.M. Engelhardt let’s his views & thoughts be known on the recent false accusations against the Nation magazine and a young but well meaning poet who simply wrote a poem in regards to the plight of homelessness in America. Writing and poetry is…
