So You want to be a poet? Then stand in line Because just like every other damn poet That ever came before you You’ll have to write And Twitter, Tumblr, Fumblr Whatever, will never save Your sorry ass And the Pushcart Prize? They won’t reward you For writing … Continue reading TO ALL THE NEW POETS OF A YOUNG CENTURY
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All poets may come and go but it's the words that forever remain. It is not of the body but of that which comes from the soul which touches others. ~ R.M. Engelhardt RIP Maya Angelou : http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/28/us/maya-angelou-obit
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OF POETRY FUTURE http://theghostofpoetryfuture.tumblr.com
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Selling Out The Gods…
SELLING OUT THE GODS Lizard King lunchboxes for Precocious children are coming soon To a supermarket near you. They will be next to the Jim Carroll Action figures and the “Rimbaud was a wildman” T-Shirts in isle 5. The Jack Kerouac cereal is fortified And delicious … _________________ R.M. Engelhardt 2005
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MEMENTO~POEM TO PAST SELF IN FUTURE TENSE : Poems 2oo2
MEMENTO Better to feel (Than be) Blood rushes thru veins And the heart beats, Only one-day to complete its duty. While eventually earth and gods shall all come Crashing down And kingdoms & civilizations fade. And so please, I ask you only this; That when I leave … Continue reading MEMENTO~POEM TO PAST SELF IN FUTURE TENSE : Poems 2oo2
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Arm yourself …
Arm yourself with pens and imagination, the paper is the empty space between the silence and the void. Fill it with words and ideas of grand thoughts and designs, unseen moments glimpsed out of secret corners. ~ R.M.
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A life in writing: Charles Nicholl
‘Let’s have a look at the dark side of the moon – Marlowe as spy, Rimbaud as gun-runner, Shakespeare as lodger’ http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/dec/30/life-in-writing-charles-nichollA life in writing: Charles Nicholl
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The Archeology of Her Smile
” I love you “ These words that he said A thousand lifetimes ago. A thousand women weeping A thousand flowers burned. The poem, Just written for someone, somewhere Once. Beloved A wife A daughter A love. About the archeology of her smile, About her hidden voice, The joyful noise of her child Or just the … Continue reading The Archeology of Her Smile
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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 … Continue reading The Visionary …
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