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The Day the Dream Came True and Other Poems
The Day the Dream Came True and Other Poems
The Day the Dream Came True and Other Poems
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This collection of inspiring poetry includes such favorites as I THOUGHT I SAW A RAINBOW, THE LIGHT SHINING 'ROUND THE WORLD and THE WAR NOBODY FOUGHT. Besides poems inspired by Barack Obama's victory, the collection recalls events of the past including THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, THE DAY THE TOWERS FELL and THE LAST DAY OF THE CENTURY. The collection includes rhyming poems and many free or blank verse poems and includes an historical perspective. Subjects such as television, advertising, greed, society in general and yes, love, are confronted in an entertaining manner. A conscious effort was also made to distort and, ultimately, obliterate form in some of the poems. In experimenting with the form and wordplay involved, the essentials of poetry are explored. Meant to be entertaining reading, many of these poems will stimulate you and affect your life in a positive manner. THE DAY THE DREAM CAME TRUE and OTHER POEMS is an homage to hope for anyone seeking peace in the world.
LanguageEnglish
PublisheriUniverse
Release dateDec 30, 2008
ISBN9781440112324
The Day the Dream Came True and Other Poems
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Adam D. Pfeffer

Adam Pfeffer graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He has worked for several newspapers and magazines in Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C. This is his fifth published work.

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    The Day the Dream Came True and Other Poems - Adam D. Pfeffer

    Contents

    The Day The Dream Came True

    Good Morning

    I Thought I Saw A Rainbow

    The Dawning

    Follow The Light Path

    You Can’t Hold Us Down

    The Day We Killed The Beast

    Take A Drink From The Fountain

    Yes, I Heard The Hate

    All About Eve

    The Light Shining ‘Round The World

    I Hear Them Singing

    Speaking In Tongues

    A Dream In A Jar

    Images

    I Quit

    The Twentieth Century

    Winter Sky

    New York

    Los Angeles

    Growing Old

    A Day at the Ballpark

    Sunday Afternoon

    I’ve Never Been To Paris

    The War Nobody Fought

    Never Give Up

    When The Lion Snored

    The Politician

    Washington, D.C.

    You Can Do It

    The Roast and the Cheese

    Peace Is Half A Fist

    The Angels Weep

    Let Peace Grow

    The Ballad of Billy Driscoll

    The Devil Takes A Vacation

    A Prayer for Peace

    Some Day, You’ll Understand

    The Blue Barkerbeak

    Keep On Growing

    An Absolute Wreck

    Calvary

    The Sabbath

    The Day The Towers Fell

    One Year Later

    Five Years Later

    The Devil Wants A War

    The Last Day of the Century

    The Turn of the Seasons

    Last Day of the Century Part Two

    Christmas Snow

    Be Positive

    The Leper’s Hand

    Return to Saigon

    No Answer

    The Beatles

    Tia Maria

    John F. Kennedy

    The Evening News

    And Now A Word From Our Sponsors

    Monkeytown

    Life and Death

    Be Not Afraid

    We Never Caught Hitler

    A Journey To Freedom

    A Summer Breeze

    Baseball

    Game of Dreams

    Someone Shot McKinley

    Beat To Beat

    Molly Pitcher

    From Cradle to Grave

    Blackberry Wine

    Lord of the Wind

    Molly Mullins

    Painted Dreams

    In All Good Time

    Where Does Moses Lie?

    Hungry Man

    The Devil Meets A Starving Man

    Only The Kind Perceive There’s Something Wrong

    What is History?

    The Elfin Boy

    A Crooked Branch

    Morning Cup of Joe

    A Winter Tale

    Time

    Modern Nightmare

    Faster

    Bought and Sold

    Written Words

    A State of War

    We Lost Something On The Way

    The Storm

    The Last Tree

    War Is Gone

    The World As It Is

    I Was There At Calvary

    The Day I Die

    To My Mother

    American Fantasy

    The Secret to Life

    A picture can say 1,000 words, but 1,000

    words said can destroy a picture.

    ALTON DOC J. BLISS

    The Day The Dream Came True

    The day the Dream came true

    I thought about all those slaves

    Who languished in misery

    Tortured by the whip

    The blood spilling from their fingers

    The plump white cotton

    Swaying in a wicked wind.

    The day the Dream came true

    I thought about the cruelty

    Of the masters of the fields

    And the desperation

    Of those that fled to the North

    Only to be told they weren’t free

    Like the man Dred Scott.

    There was evil under the eyes of God.

    There was wickedness and oppression.

    Then the Great War came.

    The day the Dream came true

    I thought about the bloodiest of wars

    Engulfing the land,

    The sound of gunfire filling the air

    And a president deciding the war

    Would be fought for men and women

    Yearning to be free in a free land.

    They were ridiculed and taunted

    And killed and tortured by the vicious

    And depraved, many wearing white hoods.

    The day the Dream came true

    I thought about how even after freedom

    They were forbidden from playing

    Baseball in the Major Leagues.

    They were still ridiculed by movies

    And the minstrel shows

    And relegated to the back of the bus.

    They were beaten and lynched

    And I thought about them and the pain and injustice

    The day the Dream came true.

    Good Morning

    I woke up and there was peace in the world.

    Everyone was working together

    For the overall happiness of the society.

    Then I yawned and fell out of bed.

    Sitting on the bedroom floor,

    I fell asleep once again.

    I was in a garden of plenty

    With a waterfall nearby.

    A naked woman walked up to me

    And put a laurel wreath on my head.

    Then she kissed me and we went swimming.

    We picked apples from the trees.

    And then I thought I heard a wrathful voice

    And thunder all around us.

    We began to run from a gigantic hand

    And then I woke up with the night lamp crashing.

    I rolled over and went back to sleep.

    I then felt myself rising into the air.

    I was naked and everyone around me

    Went flying up into the sky.

    Then the world came to an end

    And I smiled with everyone around me.

    We all agreed it had been a ridiculous world

    Full of absurdities and nonsense.

    Then before I knew it,

    I had forgotten everything that came before,

    All of humanity’s senseless history,

    And decided I would begin again.

    I took a bite out of an apple

    And ran through an awful deluge

    And then I heard a voice in the air.

    I began talking to the voice.

    I woke up hanging out the window.

    Then I walked across the floor,

    Putting on the television.

    Pictures of a faraway war twinkled on the screen.

    I Thought I Saw A Rainbow

    I thought I saw a rainbow there in the distance.

    It was a beautiful rainbow glowing over the land,

    With all the colors ever known by humankind

    Sitting side by side in absolute and total peace.

    Yes, it was the most beautiful rainbow ever,

    And we watched it as it arched through the air,

    Bringing peace to all the lands it touched,

    From one mighty ocean to another throughout the world.

    Before the rainbow appeared there were many wars

    That scorched the earth and made it bleed,

    Until the dark clouds gathered over the land,

    And the soothing rains began to fall from shore to shore.

    O, yes, it was then I thought I saw a rainbow.

    A bright and shining rainbow that brought hope to the land.

    We followed it with our eyes as it stretched through the sky

    From one land mass to another around the world.

    And then we ran outside with smiling faces,

    And we stood next to each other and kept smiling,

    Grabbing each other’s hands and standing there,

    Watching the great rainbow hunch over us.

    And we stood there as the line became much longer,

    And stretched through the mountains and valleys,

    Until it reached the sea and then the many people

    Who had gathered began to sing a soft song of peace.

    It started very low and then echoed through the hills,

    It reverberated

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