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The Use of Poetry
I heard this question the other day and it stuck in my mind. “Art, you have been writing poetry since you were thirteen years old. What good has it done?” I’ve given that a lot […]
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Have a dream
As I watched a number of Americans receive their gold medals my thoughts went back to that wonderful Broadway Musical South Pacific and to a song sung by that big ole tough woman they called […]
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Lord make us instruments of Thy peace.
“Lord make us instruments of Thy peace.” This idea came to me recently as I watched a press conference involving those police leaders in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, following the murder of three policemen. One opened […]
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Letter to Max
Dear Max, It’s Memorial Day and I’m thinking about Korea and about you, Max. You and those other G.I’s they carried off on liters from that damn, beat-up powder-topped hill we called Old Baldy. We […]
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Caution Ahead
“All four lanes were running into the back of cars,” said driver Mary Holmes, who was driving from South Carolina to Raleigh. “It was like something you see out of a movie.” Robert Turner, a […]
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On Talents And The Use Thereof
Many years ago I came up with the idea for a musical comedy about an old man having a vivid dream about God visiting him in the middle of the night and God told him […]
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The Volunteer by Art Fettig
Over the past forty plus years I have written special poems which I presented to audiences paying tribute to various professions and groups. I’d like to make them available for printing and distribution to those […]
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Anniversary
It was a cold dark night and I looked up and down the street to make certain that nobody was watching as I entered that narrow doorway to a set of stairs and I walked […]
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Shifting Loyalties
Watching the Duke Devils play Notre Dame in basketball recently gave me some mixed emotions. When I moved here to North Carolina I decided to root for UNC (Carolina) and I don’t want anybody to […]
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I Still Believe In Miracles
From my Monday Morning Memo… Some days when the whole wide world seems to be falling apart all around me it is difficult, but I still believe in miracles. When it is darkest I believe […]