TIME OUT. by R.M. Engelhardt

All the

Articles

These days

Say that the

Young are 

Writing poetry

Again

But 

All I ever

See is three

Or four lines

And love poems

With pretty

Pictures of

Flowers &

Hot models

Silhouetted 

Against rain or

Backdrops

With even more pretty

Flowers with

An emphasis

On romantic

Themes no whole

Poems about blood or

Whiskey the dead

Or death

Sirens or muses

Politics or religion

Carnage war or 

Soldiers dying

On the fields

Of battle

No.

I see

Too many

Happy poems

Morning after

Poems let me

Make you some

Coffee after sex

Poems but I don't

See any poems

About how this

Beautiful universe

Is going

To shit

No poems

With anger

Teeth bared

Ready to go

Or ready to

Take on the

World

But if the

Young are still

Among

The living

That's good

And so is

Peace

And love

Keep writing

Talon (R.M. Engelhardt) is a poet/author minister who over the last 20 years has been published in such journals as Thunder Sandwich, Full of Crow, Rusty Truck, Writers’ Resist, Dry Land Lit, Rye Whiskey Review, Hobo Camp Review & many others. He currently lives & writes in upstate NY where he hosts a monthly open mic called “The Troy Poetry Mission”

http://www.rmengelhardt.com