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