A good poem or poet is like a good cigar or a good whiskey. Everyone Has their own preferences. ~ R.M. Engelhardt
Poetics
On T.S. Elliot & The Death of Poetry. Another Opinion – R.M. Engelhardt
So apparently this article has been moving around a bit in Facebook groups. The writer is not the first to coin the term " Poetry is Dead" or for that matter the poetic viewpoint that T.S. Elliot was the game changer. What is your idealism or belief? This is not so much a critique as … Continue reading On T.S. Elliot & The Death of Poetry. Another Opinion – R.M. Engelhardt
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The Stars In Night In Flight. A Poem By R.M. Engelhardt
The Stars In Night In Flight
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Find Your Own Voice
Life, poetry in general is about experience and language. How you present this rare magic is key. The writer or poet is not an expert. It's how you present it. In other words? Each God is a God and each man is a man or for that matter woman. A line is a line and … Continue reading Find Your Own Voice
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New Poem Up~ Spillwords.com
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“They have lost the metaphysical sense Of the future, they feel themselves The end of a chain Of lives, single lives And we know that lives Are single And cannot defend The metaphysic On which rest The boundaries Of our distances.” ~ George Oppen
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Poetry Is …
Poetry is not something scattered like the wind, but an individual journey for the writer. A path, and not a competition. What is written is the truth of the poets life. Which is like a religion, sacred to that person. ~ R.M. Engelhardt
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Happy Birthday, Percy Bysshe Shelley Born 4 August 1792, died 8 July 1822: Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ … Continue reading Percy Bysshe Shelley
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And Thus We Must Ask The Question …
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Every Age …
"Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry." ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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