Category: Poems
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Art Fettig, “Pass it on!”
A dynamic speaker named Bill Sanders invited me to join him one day when he was visiting Jackson prison. That would be around 1980. We went into the maximum security section and visited with prisoners serving life sentences and then we would each gave a little speech and talked with prisoners privately.
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The Spirit by Art Fettig
In 1975 I wrote this poem for a Bicentennial speech I was preparing. It was published in the United State Congressional Record and in Success Unlimited Magazine.
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Thinking In Music
“I did not come to my fundamental understanding of the universe through my rational mind. I often think in music.” Albert Einstein
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Early This Morning – by Art Fettig
Many say Lincoln was a poet. He wrote “Four score and seventy years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the principle that all men were created equal.”
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A Poem That Wouldn’t Let Go
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.