MECHANISM To summon All voices Magicks The poem An incantation A spell Whispering Into the void The silence Made form Made flesh The dreams Of man Temporal Corporal From Mind Body Soul The universal Thread A mechanism A transmission From The beginning To The end ~ R.M. Engelhardt
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A WINTER TALE : ONE CIGARETTE
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 … Continue reading A WINTER TALE : ONE CIGARETTE
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Notice
NOTICE My long dead Animal spirit Doesn't give 2 shits about your Drama, symbols, politics Pornographic presidents Or clever displays In my dialect A long lost forgotten language Of primitive signs smoke filled Bars, cigarettes, man caves & Sun gods on vacation Riding old motorcycles Into the dusk The last of my tribe Who share … Continue reading Notice
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Coffee Ass Blues & Other Poems: The New Book ~ R.M. Engelhardt 2018
Now Available: My new book of poems "Coffee Ass Blues & Other Poems" is now available on Amazon through Alien Buddha Press with illustrations by friend & fellow poet Red Focks. Get your copy today ... https://www.amazon.com/dp/1985163055
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Shakespeare Once Said
SHAKESPEARE ONCE SAID Shakespeare once said: The Prince of Darkness is a Gentleman (But never a lunatic) Or a spy That night when Shakespeare saw Marlowe Only briefly In the mirror When words came to him In the silence Of the night air or From a bottle Or a muse When dreamers, poets were … Continue reading Shakespeare Once Said
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Failed Human Mantra
FAILED HUMAN MANTRA Repeat After Me: I am perfect I am powerful I am strong I am whole I am loving I am happy I am harmonious Fuck. I am None of These Things But human I am None of These things But words With decomposing "Flesh" ~ Talon (R.M. Engelhardt)
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The Ballad of Fast Eddie
THE BALLAD OF FAST EDDIE Back In the 1970s Fast Eddie was An old man Who walked Down the streets Of the city Of Troy Looking for a Fight looking for All the bad guys in A child sized Cowboy hat with Two cap Pistols & his Belt looking For the OK Corral On the … Continue reading The Ballad of Fast Eddie
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Homeless Warriors
HOMELESS WARRIORS We are Multitudes Young & Old Men & Women An army Dethroned Without the Respect of Generations You cannot See what We've seen The fine Line between Humanity And disease Destruction Poverty Death So I beseech Thee America To believe To care To help To save For we Have lost Our families Brothers … Continue reading Homeless Warriors
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Solitude
SOLITUDE They say that To be alone is Either a heaven or A hell I've seen both These moments Something between Zen or Near suicide An epiphany Or a failure A reckoning or A dream It's humanity It's just about Being human It's either desperation Or the muse The silence Or the weary The lonesome … Continue reading Solitude
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What We Once Had
What we once had was poetry. Visions and star dust. Translucent. Death to the machine, the grind the walk that we must walk. The everyday pantomime of social media and daily life. I am bored. Asleep in the 21st century. I want monoliths, transcendence and truth. Moments of humanity that don't come with a price … Continue reading What We Once Had
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