Category: R.M. Engelhardt Poem
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AN AMERICAN DIRGE In The Last LightThe Dusk AmericaHas Fallen With the HushOf Fear From Monsters Who Were Never True Men But We Shall Rise Again ~ R.M. Engelhardt ©2025
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YOU ARE NOT STANDING ALONE There was a timeWhen you were a childThat you believed thatMonsters existed They hid in your closetYour basement But now? The world is a different placeBecause the monsters wereAll hiding right out there in public And they have done thingsSaid things to make you feel afraidTo scare you into surrendering…
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BONE UPON NERVE TheRealityOf LifeIs A Back InjuryThat Doesn’t StopScreaming As YouTry Moving ForwardInto The Next SunriseKnocking YouOut Like A HeavyweightFighter Each Day So You Say: “Fuck That” And Crawl UpOff The MatSaying “C’mon “ You Can Do BetterThan That “Bitch “ ~ R.M. Engelhardt©2024
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BUKOWSKI WOULDN’T BOTHER Social Media? Politics? Who gives a shit? Bukowski wouldn’t bother But even though he’sGetting attackedEven though he’s bone dry deadIn fact he’d probably justLaugh and give them allThe finger And go back to drinkingHis beer But since he’s been goneThe world has gone insaneHe’d see psychopaths &Whack jobs and drama onThe scene…
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A POEM AT MIDNIGHTBEFORE WE LEAVE On a coldNovember night Off in the distanceI can hear the crickets& the frogs, the small fox &It’s baby run acrossThe front lawn Into the brush It’s most near to solitudeEven heaven perhaps Smoking my lastCigarette of the dayAs the moon hangsOverhead QuestioningOur existence Our souls And then? I…
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ASSASSINATION DAY This is whatHappens whenSocial MediaDivides humanityCreates fodder forThe storm &Influences the youngWho do not understandThe true reality of theirConsequences PerhapsSpecial needs Not a heroJust a kid PerhapsSees the classicVillain on a TVScreen But theVillain is realThis is not aMovie or a repeat orA video game The false messiah?The false victim? His liesHis hateScreamingAnd…
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SUPERIOR POET DICK SYNDROME Do you suffer fromSUPERIOR POET DICK SYNDROME? Are you well … A Dick? Here’s a list of symptoms: 1. You post in poetry groups butYou rarely comment or even bother to likeOther poets work always trying toOutshine them 2. You must constantly insultAnd or make shitty attempts toCompare yourself to famous…
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MYSTICAL CYNICISM My Poems areToo long For words In the Age of DeadRevelation Dark Vanity The mediaOf uncomfortable Verses That stillAwaken Each night Searching forSomething theyCannot find Their soulsStill lingerStill grieveFor thePrinted page In silence ~ R.M. Engelhardt ©2024
