Pam Schwetz

TOTALITARIANISM DO NOT COMPLY

IDIOTIC IDEOLOGY

IDIOSYNCRASY

SO PSYCHOTIC NO APOLOGY

DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME

Author's Notes/Comments: 

WATCHING A FREE ONLINE COURSE ABOUT TOTALITARIANISM WHERE THEY TALK ABOUT FOUR BOOKS...1984,BRAVE NEW WORLD,AND TWO OTHERS. THE INTRO LECTURE ON 1984 MENTIONED IDEOLOGY SO I WROTE THIS POEM.

RABBIT HOLES

WATCH OUT FOR RABBIT HOLES

TRY TO AVOID THEM

DON'T GO DOWN ONE OF THOSE

THEY ARE A PROBLEM

YOU'LL GET COMPLETELY LOST

AND VERY CONFUSED

AND PAY SUCH A HIGH COST

THAT LEAVES YOU BEMUSED    

 
 

LISTENING TO RAIN

LISTENING TO RAIN ON THE WINDOW PANE

CALMS YOUR BRAIN WHEN IT IS TAME

IF IT COMES DOWN HARD AND FAST

THEN I HOPE THAT IT WON'T LAST

WHEN IT'S GENTLE I MUST SAY

I'D LOVE TO LISTEN ALL DAY

 

 
Author's Notes/Comments: 

WHEN I POSTED THIS I CHANGED THE FIRST LINE FROM HEARING RAIN TO LISTENING TO RAIN.

BEING DESPICABLE

WHOEVER IS CAPABLE

OF BEING DESPICABLE

SHOULD NOT BE PREDICTABLE

IT'S JUST INEXPLICABLE

HOW IT IS FORMIDABLE

 

SPLENDOR IN THE PAST

SPLENDOR IN THE PAST

IT WAS SUCH A BLAST

NEVER OVERCAST

IT WENT BY SO FAST

MEMORIES ARE VAST

 
Author's Notes/Comments: 

HAD TO PAUSE SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS TO WRITE THIS POEM...

RIPPLES OF HOPE

RIPPLES OF HOPE MAY BE FOUND

IF WE ALL JUST LOOK AROUND

PEOPLE WHO CARE ARE OUT THERE

IT'S GOOD TO BE AWARE

WE'RE NOT ALONE LOTS OF US

ARE WILLING TO MAKE A FUSS

ABOUT WHAT'S WRONG FAR TOO LONG

AND TOGETHER WE STAND STRONG

SO BE INCLINED TO SPEAK YOUR MIND

AND YOU WILL FIND  A GOLD MINE

OF KINDRED SOULS WHO  OPPOSE

ALL THOSE FOES THAT'S HOW IT GOES

ONE BY ONE WE ALL ADD UP

AND WE WILL FIND THAT IS ENOUGH

Author's Notes/Comments: 

I WAS WATCHING A SHORT VIDEO ON X AND SOMEONE WAS TALKING ABOUT ROBERT KENNEDY IN THE SIXTIES AND MENTIONED RIPPLES OF HOPE AND THAT GOT ME STARTED ON THIS POEM...I LIKED THAT...RIPPLES OF HOPE...

ALLURING ASSURING ENDURING

DO YOU SUPPOSE

IT'S NOT SAFE TO TRUST THOSE

WHO ARE NOT TRUSTWORTHY

IF THAT IS SO

I HOPE THAT YOU KNOW

YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY

IT'S SAFE TO TRUST

INTUITION IS JUST

FOREVER OCCURRING

GOD'S GIFT TO US

THAT WE ALL CAN TRUST

LIES ARE NOT OBSCURING

THE TRUTH BE TOLD

THAT WE CAN BEHOLD

ALLURING ASSURING ENDURING

 

Author's Notes/Comments: 

ALWAYS TRUST YOUR INTUITION

 

HAVE A PEEK

PETER PAN

NOT A MAN

JUST A BOY 

FULL OF JOY

TINKERBELL

WHAT A GAL

FAIRY LIKE

MAGIC SPRITE

NEVERLAND

UNDERSTAND

I INSIST

DOES EXIST 

YOUNG AT HEART

PLAY A PART

FAIRY DUST

IS A MUST

FLY AWAY

THERE SOMEDAY

IN YOUR DREAMS

SO IT SEEMS

MAGICAL

MYSTICAL

CASUAL

CLASSICAL

FAIRY TALE

PIERCE THE VEIL

HAVE A PEEK

WHAT YOU SEEK

WILL BE FOUND

ALL AROUND

Author's Notes/Comments: 

I'VE OFTEN SAID I'M PETER PAM

I WON'T GROW UP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkoBFRP4gPI&list=PLfrTz7o37VP8Evwi3X-U9V...

 

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KEEP THEM GUESSING

DOES ANYONE

REALLY KNOW

ANYONE

DO YOU EVEN

KNOW YOURSELF

DO YOU JUST

DO WHAT YOU MUST

TO ADJUST

TO CIRCUMSTANCE

PERCHANCE

DO YOU DARE

TO SHARE

EVERYTHING

OR BITS AND PIECES

HERE AND THERE

TO KEEP THEM GUESSING

Author's Notes/Comments: 

A POEM I WROTE AWHILE AGO CALLED WHO AM I WHEN WAS IN MY MIND WHEN I WROTE THIS ONE. I RECITED IT ON YOUTUBE IN MY POETRY PLAYLIST...

WHO AM I WHEN

 

WHO AM I WHEN I'M WITH YOU

WHO AM I WHEN I'M NOT

WHO AM I WHEN

INTERESTING QUESTION

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8NrdsasqIQ&list=PLfrTz7o37VP9oDDjycNPPk...