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The name “Beltane” derives from Bel, the Celtic god of fire, honored and propitiated with bonfires lit on sacred hills. Smoke from the fire blessed the fields, animals, and community,
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15 REMINDERS FROM THE ELDERS:
- Get up with the sun to pray. Pray alone.
- Be tolerant of those who have lost their way.
Ignorance, presumption, anger, jealousy and greed come from a lost soul. Pray for them to find guidance. - Find yourself, by your own means. Do not let others make your path for you. It is your path, and only yours. Others may walk with you, but no one can make your way (or walk your path) for you.
- Treat guests in your home with great consideration. Serve them the best food, give them the best bed and treat them with respect and honor.
- Do not take what is not yours, whether from a person, a community, from the jungle or from a culture. It was not given or won. It is not yours.
- Respect all the things that are on this earth, be they people, plants and animals.
- Honor the thoughts, desires and words of all people. Never break them in, or make fun of them, or imitate them rudely. It gives each person the right to their personal expression.
- Never talk about others in a bad way. The negative energy you put into the universe will multiply when it returns to you.
- All people make mistakes. And all the mistakes can be forgiven.
- Bad thoughts cause illness to the mind, body and spirit. Practice optimism.
- Nature is not FOR us. It is PART of us. She’s part of your family in the world.
- Children are the seeds of our future. Sow love in your hearts and water them with wisdom and life lessons. When they grow up, just give them space to grow up.
- Avoid hurting the hearts of others. The poison of their suffering will return to you.
- Be true (transparent ) all the time. Honesty is the test of one’s will in this universe.
- Keep yourself balanced. Your Mental person, your Spiritual person, your Emotional person, and your Physical person: they all have the need to be strong, pure and healthy.
~ Native American Quotes
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They
See the world as
Revolving around themBrains wired
Melodramatic
Sticks &
Stones &
More BullshitAs usual repetition
The same story
That’s never changed
War
Jealousy
Vanity
DeathStupidity
God?
War
Jealousy
Vanity
DeathStupidity
God?
Repeat.
Repeat.
Repeat.
This shit
Is getting
Boring~ R.M. Engelhardt
©2023
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POEMS BY R.M. ENGELHARDTRAW WORDS, RAW OPINIONS, RAW TRUTH.
RAW anger initiated by those who embrace
racism, prejudice & hate .RAW humor and honesty, odes to icons as human beings.
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R.M. Engelhardt is an American Poet, Writer & Author who over the last 30 some years has published several books of poetry including Where There Is No Vision, Coffee Ass Blues & Other Poems, The Last Cigarette: The Collected Poems of R.M. Engelhardt, The Resurrection Waltz, Dark Lands and others. Through his ideas and visions he has helped to create a large amount of the Upstate/Albany, NY spoken word~poetry scene and is the former host of the long running “The School of Night” An Open Forum-Mic For All Poets in the late 1990’s/Early 2000’s and now hosts the “Invocation of The Muse” Spoken Word Poetry Event Monthly in downtown Albany NY. He is also the creator of the “School of Night Newsletter” which supports the Spiritual, Pagan-Wiccan community as well as being the Editor of the independent small poetry press DeadMansPressInk which publishes, promotes and helps writers & poets to put their unique work out into the world with a concentration on Pagan Poetics & experimental literature.
His work has been published by such journals as Retort, Red Fez, Rusty Truck, Sure! The Charles Bukowski Newsletter, Thunder Sandwich, Fashion For Collapse, 2nd Avenue, The Angry Poet, Winedrunk Sidewalk, Full of Crow, The Outlaw Poetry Network, The Rye Whiskey Review, Fishbowl Poetry Press, The Black Shamrock, Trailer Park Quarterly, Spillwords, Dumpster Fire Press, Punk Noir Magazine & in many others. The original founder of the group Albany Poets.Org (Now a part of The HVWG) and the creator of The Albany WordFest he currently lives in Upstate NY where he writes and lives with wife poet/writer/artist Kali who is a writer, photographer & artist.
*His new books of poetry are entitled “We Rise Like Smoke” Poems, Psalms & Incantations 2021 & “Of Spirit, Ash & Bone” Poems*Parables 2022 now both available on Amazon as well as his previous books, ” Darklands” 2019 & ” The Resurrection Waltz” 2012.
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NIGHT WALKING
Sometimes
We get lonelySometimes
We feel aloneIt doesn’t really matter
In a world of a billion people
More than that inhabiting
The earthIt’s just a matter
Of the darkAnd the light
We walk through
Cities & crowded
Streets but all these
People are strangersYou can get a drink
At the bar or just
Look into the eyes
Of passerbysAll with the same expression
Something missing
Within their souls
Their heartsBroken
Or damagedHomeless or
RichThere’s something
MissingThere’s always
Something missingWhich no one
Even the people
Who walk these
StreetsCan
Even explainLike a hole torn
In the fabric of
LifeSo we wander
Walk at nightLooking for
OurselvesAlone
~ R.M. Engelhardt
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A good poem or poet
is like a good cigar or a
good whiskey. Everyone
Has their own preferences.~ R.M. Engelhardt ©2023
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “Populist Manifesto No. 1.”
Poets, come out of your closets. Open your windows. Open your doors. You’ve been holed up too long. No time now for our little literary games. No time now for our paranoias and hypochondrias. No time now for fear and loathing. Time now only for light and love. Poets, descend to the street of the world once more and open your minds and eyes. Clear your throat and speak up.
Poetry is dead. Long live poetry. Don’t wait for the revolution, or it’ll happen without you. Poetry, the common carrier for the transportation of the public to higher places. Poetry still falls from the skies into our streets still open. They haven’t put up the barricades yet, the streets still alive with faces, lovely men and women still walking their lovely creatures everywhere. In the eyes of all, the secret of all still buried there. Whitman’s wild children still sleeping there. Awake and walk in the open air.
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