R.M. ENGELHARDT

Poet Writer Author Albany NY

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R.M. Engelhardt is an American poet, writer and author who over the last three decades has published over 20 books of poetry including “Nod” “Alchemy” DarkLands, RAW & “The Last Cigarette: The Collected Poems of R.M. Engelhardt. The founder of the Upstate NY organization ALBANY POETS & the Annual Poetry Celebration THE ALBANY WORD FEST he has through his ideas & visions helped to contribute a large amount of advocacy and creativity to the Spoken Word~Poetry Capital District scene and is the former host of the long running readings The School of Night & Vox. He is currently the host of SPEAK THE WORD ALBANY!. An Open Mic for Poetry And The Spoken Word at Ophelias. Over the last thirty years his work has also been published in many journals such as The Rye Whiskey Review, Red Fez, Rusty Truck, Sure! The Charles Bukowski Newsletter, Thunder Sandwich, Black Noise, The Hobo Camp Review, Full of Crow, on the Outlaw Poetry Network & in many many others. Look for his books “WHERE THE PEOPLE’S VISION PERISHES 2020” “DARK LANDS (2019 on LuLu, Amazon & At Barnes and Noble) The Resurrection Waltz, 2012 ( Infinity Press) & “COFFEE ASS BLUES & OTHER POEMS” ( 2018 Alien Buddha Press 2018) ” DarkLands” 2019 & “Where There Is No Vision” 2020, “WE RISE LIKE SMOKE” (2021) & Of Spirit, Ash & Bone (2022) and RAW- Poems ( 2023) all available on Amazon.com He is also the Editor of the small independent poetry press Dead Man’s Press Ink since 1998. Look for his books The Bones of Our Existence A Journal 2046 & his new books THE DYING TIME POEMS BY R.M. Engelhardt 2026 & NO KINGS 2025 available at Barnes & Noble and currently on Amazon. www.gentlemanoutsider.com *All Poems, Writings & Information Contained On This Blog Are The Property & Owned By The Author R.M. Engelhardt. © 2026 www.rmengelhardt.com

  • Venator sequitur fugientia; capta relinquit; Semper et inventis ulteriora petit.

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    The hunter follows things which flee from him; he leaves them when they are taken; and ever seeks for that which is beyond what he has found.

     

    ~ Ovid~ Amorum (16 BC), Book II. 9. 9.

  • Like Statues

    Like statues we stand in silence and grace.

     

    ~ R.M. ENGELHARDT

     

    yaddo statue

  • No Matter

    Miyamoto Musashi

     

    No matter how hard you study, if you do not become one with the art you pursue you can never truly be one with the universe and the spirit of the thing itself will always elude you. You must have extraordinary passion, patience, and self discipline to make the journey alone.

     

    ~ Miyamoto Musashi

  • 20 Years

    walltime.jpgTwenty years will come and go. Twenty years enough time to know that there’s beauty in all life. The clocks will stop, the hearts will die but the love will bring you home. The love will always bring you home and always find you.

     

    ~ R.M. Engelhardt

  • LEXIKON

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    “Initiate”

     

     

    Trans-mute,

    Transcend

    All “Matter”

     

     

    Bring Forth,

    And Thus Summon

     

     

    All Gods … And Words

    Obsolete (They Return)

     

     

    Creation. Soul. Dimension. Time.

     

     

    AWAKEN “The Dead”

     

    Sound~ECHO Of Crashing Waves Entities

    Dying Against All Flesh Bleeding, Bled

     

    Into VOICE.

     

     

    As the Smoke Of Her Cigarettes, Her Smell

    & The Image Of Her Body All Still Linger,

     

    Like A Poem, Perfume Instilled

     

    Unto That One Perfect Dream

     

    Of Youth.

     

     

     

    Spring.

     

    Roar.

     

    Snow.

     

    Moon.

     

    Soar In & Thru

     

    Eternity, A Song

    Of  Beauty Beneath & Hidden

    Between

     

     

    “Days”

     

    To Wish To Pray

    To Become & Believe

     

    In Some Vacant Thought

     

    Un-Aware

     

    Called “Inspiration”

     

     ~ R.M. Engelhardt 2011

     

     

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  • Untune The Sky

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    “…So when the last and dreadful hour
    This crumbling pageant shall devour,
    The trumpet shall be heard on high,
    The dead shall live, the living die,
    And Music shall untune the sky”
    ~ John Dryden

     

     

  • On Anger/ On Writing

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    Writing when you are angry may fuel words, move mountains and unleash the monsters that dwell inside of your soul but anger is nothing in comparison to the magic of one single solitary heart that doesn’t just conjure words but worlds.

     

    ~ R.M. ENGELHARDT

  • It’s Been A Beautiful Fight

    coffeesmokes
    Lighting new cigarettes,
    pouring more drinks.

    It has been a beautiful fight.

    Still is.
    ~  Charles Bukowski

  • SEMBLANCE

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    Among the counting of forevers,
    years, photographs
    Reminders

    It is love that only remembers
    Anyways

    Beyond the damage
    Or the seasons,
    The body or disdain
    The distance
    or the longing
    The heart, or the age

    It is love that only remembers,
    Anyways

    But is that, this really love?

    The mind that says “yes”

    For perhaps it is only a semblance

    Of a face that never fades.

    But in the end
    Like in the beginning

    It is love that only remembers
    Anyways

    And that is all there truly is.

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     ~ R.M. Engelhardt