Category: Poems
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It Saved My Life, Volunteering
The first thing I learned was “Don’t volunteer for anything.” Pretty good advice. They would trick us. The Sgt. would say, “I need ten men with office experience.” Then he’d send the ten somewhere to dig a latrine, Or to work in the mess hall cleaning the grease trap.
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Teacher, Teacher – by Art Fettig
I believe that right now, our American teachers are facing one of the most challenging times in American History. I’m praying for them.
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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