More Than This by R.M. Engelhardt

More than just this,

 






A hand

A halo

A tryst




Swallowed up in imagery



Synergy, the electricity




Of a single, simple

Word




Phrases given by divine intervention 



Ecstasy or the need for flight

From God or Buddha,

Mohammad or the night





More than just this




Your love, your voice exists




Re-invents astrology resists where history

Temptation has been 



Genesis, or the temporal servants

Of the momentary rhyme

Or a monumental pause of the mind






More than just this, 





Poetry must be




Can be








Much more than just a drunk



Or a mere critic, a contagious madman



A martyr, a saint, your youth, your death or your age




This crime of sincerity



More than just an eternity







Forgotten.

About R.M.  Engelhardt:

R.M. Engelhardt is an author, poet & writer whose work over the years has appeared in many journals & magazines such as Rusty Truck, Thunder Sandwich, Full of Crow, In Between Hangovers, Writers Resist, The Rye Whiskey Review and in many others. His new book of poetry is called Coffee Ass Blues & Other Poems published by Alien Buddha Press (2018). He is also the host of The Troy Poetry Mission, an open mic for poets located in Troy, New York.