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

  • William Ernest Henley : Invictus

     

     

     

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    Invictus

    BY WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY

    Out of the night that covers me,
          Black as the pit from pole to pole,
    I thank whatever gods may be
          For my unconquerable soul.
    In the fell clutch of circumstance
          I have not winced nor cried aloud.
    Under the bludgeonings of chance
          My head is bloody, but unbowed.
    Beyond this place of wrath and tears
          Looms but the Horror of the shade,
    And yet the menace of the years
          Finds and shall find me unafraid.
    It matters not how strait the gate,
          How charged with punishments the scroll,
    I am the master of my fate,
          I am the captain of my soul.

     

  • THE SUMMER IS OVER

    If You Missed It The First Time …

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    The first song

    Is innocence.

    The last song

    Is dirt.

    And the summer

    Is now gone along with

    The heart and the flesh,

    From diseases known & unknown

    Which constantly

    Remind us that

    If we are anything

    We are flawed.

    Human in the eyes to be inhuman

    Noble to all our fellow creatures

    Except our fellow man,

    Woman or child, reporter

    “Or God”

    And when I was a kid

    Isis was a superhero on television,

    A Goddess who fought for truth & justice

    That now the pathetic

    Have now turned

    Into a bitch

    And the open light

    Is now once again

    Vanishing from

    Our very souls

    Yes, the summer is over

    The summer is gone

    But in the end of all ends

    It is the light that depends

    Upon you no matter

    How dark it gets

    Keep fighting.

    __________________

    ~ R.M. Engelhardt

        08.29.14

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  • Altruism and the New Enlightenment : An interview with E.O. Wilson

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    I think we are ready to create a more human-centered belief system. I realize I sound like an advocate for science and technology, and maybe I am because we are now in a techno-scientific age. I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves. Right now we’re living in what Carl Sagan correctly termed a demon-haunted world. We have created a Star Wars civilization but we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. That’s dangerous.

    ~ E.O. Wilson

    http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2012/04/e_o_wilson_on_altruism_and_the_new_enlightenment.html

  • THE SUMMER IS OVER

     

     

    BWJamesFoley.jpg

     

     

    The first song

    Is innocence.

     

    The last song

    Is dirt.

     

    And the summer

    Is now gone along with

    The heart and the flesh,

    From diseases known & unknown

    Which constantly

    Remind us that

    If we are anything

    We are flawed.

     

     

    Human in the eyes to be inhuman

    Noble to all our fellow creatures

    Except our fellow man,

    Woman or child, reporter

     

     

    “Or God”

     

    And when I was a kid

    Isis was a superhero on television,

    A Goddess who fought for truth & justice

    That now the pathetic

    Have now turned

    Into a bitch

     

     

    And the open light

    Is now once again

    Vanishing from

    Our very souls

     

    Yes, the summer is over

    The summer is gone

     

    But in the end of all ends

    It is the light that depends

    Upon you no matter

    How dark it gets

     

    Keep fighting.

     

    __________________

     

    ~ R.M. Engelhardt

        08.29.14

  • It Is Poetry …

    “It is poetry that effortlessly moves the heavens and the earth,
    awakens the world of invisible spirits to deep feel, softens the relationship between men and women, and consoles the hearts of fierce warriors.”

    ~ Japanese Poet Ki no Tsurayuki
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  • Something …

    Hard pressed to

    Write a poem I

    Remember the illusion

    Of a moment.

     

     

    Something about

    A haiku.

    __________________

    ~ R.M. Engelhardt

  • Once You Read A Book …

    Once you read a book it becomes a part of you forever

     ~ R.M. Engelhardt

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  • cultivate

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    “Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.”

    ~ William Powell