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WHERE TO GET THE RESURRECTION WALTZ

WHERE TO GET THE RESURRECTION WALTZ

R.M. Engelhardt is an underground writer whose poetry and writing has been widely published in many online magazines as well as in print magazines over the last  20 years or so. He is the author of several books such as “The Last Cigarette, The Collected Poems Of R.M. Engelhardt” and many others and in style is comparable to such writers as Nick Tosches, Charles Bukowski, Pessoa and even a bit of the mystic and Rimbaud are thrown in as well. What speaks to you in his poems is the crafting of the ordinary and its beauty as well as the gritty, daily reality of life and living in the 21st century. Engelhardt’s poems in this book, ”The Resurrection Waltz” Engelhardt also speaks about the questions and the relevancy of poetry and the place of the poet in a technology driven future age where it seems that the poem and poetry has been forgotten and or has been left for dead (Saint Poem).
There is even a piece in here where the poet turns to the late musician Warren Zevon and a bottle of scotch for answers to some of life’s more romantic questions. Overall? I enjoyed this book quite a bit and am glad I bought it.

~ inthedancingwave (Barnes & Noble Customer Reviews)

 *Thank You! ~ R.M. Engelhardt

 

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SILENCE FALLS

SILENCE FALLS

 

Incantations

Psalms of syntax

Sonnets of dust

Stanzas of the night

Travelers by night, Nocturnes.

Silence.

“Silence, the words ever-moving into foolishness

Fading. The silence prolonged, so secretive of thought”

The Silence Falls.

Love, the, the most difficult of phrases,

The man of this phrase out of phase ~ fragments left of

What’s lost, out of time & out of place.

Silence Falls.

The spirit

Is the future,

The spirit is the flame

By the sea, by the light and by the storm

Returning, perceiving the great wheel turning

A vortex.

The past an abstract sky

The true song thru speech

As the veil will have it

All beauty dropped out of time, out of loneliness

Thru body and mind, soul.

These casualties all things

Becoming

Vox Verbum

Postremus Cantus.

As The Silence Falls

Words, Images Fading

Into history, voices poetry

The song an echo repeating

Into the void.

Tick

Tock

Tick

Tock

Tick

Next exit

To the place where

All our worlds meet

And end

And I will

Meet you there.

___________

R.M. ENGELHARDT

SILENCE FALLS , POEM FROM THE BOOK
THE RESURRECTION WALTZ, 2013

http://www.rmengelhardt.com

THE RESURRECTION WALTZ BOOK LAUNCH~BOOK SIGNING WITH MURROW 03.14.13 !

The Resurrection Waltz Book Launch With Murrow
Thursday, MARCH 14th 2013

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THE RESURRECTION WALTZ BOOK LAUNCH
THE RESURRECTION WALTZ BOOK LAUNCH

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The Last Cigarette Poems R.M. Engelhardt

The Last Cigarette:

The Collected Poems

Of R.M. Engelhardt

 

These are the earlier collected works of Albany, NY based poet, writer & author R.M. Engelhardt who has published several books over the last two decades. Engelhardt through his ideas & visions has helped to create a large amount of the Upstate, Albany, NY spoken word~poetry scene and is the host of The Saint Poem Reading Series. Through his efforts he has created such groups the Albany Poetry Syndicate as well as Albany Poets (www.AlbanyPoets.com), which have left a lasting mark on the upstate NY literary scene. His work has also been published by many journals both in print & on the net including Retort, Verve, Fashion For Collapse, Sure! The Charles Bukowski Newsletter, Copious Amounts, Thunder Sandwich, The Angry Poet, 2nd Avenue Poetry, Full of Crow & in many others.

 
 

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The Visionary …

All men should possess a ‘visionary faculty’. Men do not, because they live wrongly. They live too tensely, under too much strain, ‘getting and spending’. But this loss of the visionary faculty is not entirely man’s fault, it is partly the fault of the world he lives in, that demands that men should spend a certain amount of their time ‘getting and spending’ to stay alive. …The visionary faculty comes naturally to all men. When they are relaxed enough, every leaf of every tree in the world, every speck of dust, is a separate world capable of producing infinite pleasure. If these fail to do so, it is man’s own fault for wasting his time and energy on trivialities. The ideal is the contemplative poet, the ‘sage’, who cares about having only enough money and food to keep him alive, and never takes thought for the morrow.”

~  From The Outsider by Colin Wilson

Ruthless Gravity

Ruthless Gravity

Sound Wisdom ...
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Tonight on television
there is an actor talking about his battle with
drug addiction, sex addiction and life.

You would think that by the way
the host is interviewing him
that he is wise & worldly, an
ancient sage from his
battle with the curse

of “celebrity”

And there are a billion lights
in the great big city, a million lives
that get up everyday and go to work like
everybody else. And their addiction is food,
their addiction is rent and how to somehow
get thru the next day and make sure that
their children are dressed, educated & well-fed.

So the question is is that when you
look at the world do you see a gift? Or do you see an
enemy? Do you have faith or do you pretend that
all of these famous people are like you or your friends?

The constant partying,
the good life, broads & booze,
high fashion, money and
Paris Hilton bending over your
patio bench just waiting for
a piece of what you’ve got to give.

But there are those of us who
happen to live in the real world,
those who believe in more than just
the shallow trash that all the others
seem to admire.

And they call us the survivors who don’t
need the shit or the television to fulfill our
needs. The survivors who don’t need the
drama or the fake religions of the moment,
the meth or the cocaine, a little dog or
a brand new $400. dollar purse.

~ R.M. Engelhardt