Preacher, Don't Send Me
Preacher, Don't Send me
when I die
to some big ghetto
in the sky
where rats eat cats
of the leopard type
and Sunday brunch
is grits and tripe.
I've known those rats
I've seen them kill
and grits I've had
would make a hill,
or maybe a mountain,
so what I need
from you on Sunday
is a different creed.
Preacher, please don't
promise me
streets of gold
and milk for free.
I stopped all milk
at four years old
and once I'm dead
I won't need gold.
I'd call a place
pure paradise
where families are loyal
and strangers are nice,
where the music is jazz
and the season is fall.
Promise me that
or nothing at all.
Woman Work
I've got the children to tend
The clothes to mend
The floor to mop
The food to shop
Then the chicken to fry
The baby to dry
I got company to feed
The garden to weed
I've got shirts to press
The tots to dress
The can to be cut
I gotta clean up this hut
Then see about the sick
And the cotton to pick.
Shine on me, sunshine
Rain on me, rain
Fall softly, dewdrops
And cool my brow again.
Storm, blow me from here
With your fiercest wind
Let me float across the sky
'Til I can rest again.
Fall gently, snowflakes
Cover me with white
Cold icy kisses and
Let me rest tonight.
Sun, rain, curving sky
Mountain, oceans, leaf and stone
Star shine, moon glow
You're all that I can call my own.
2007-11-04 12:45:56 · 8 answers · asked by Irreplacable <3 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
there are two poems here.
2007-11-04 12:46:40 · update #1
women work and preacher
2007-11-04 12:47:04 · update #2
***I got these poems online.
Google.
2007-11-04 13:54:22 · update #3
Maya Angelou wrote them
2007-11-04 14:00:36 · update #4
Nice poem preacher well i kinda think its about a person has been through a lot in the past so he knows what being poor is what hunger is and what hungry and poor people are capable of when given no choice . from being the hunted they can be feirce hunter. also the poet has seen his family crumble and divided poet has seen strangers that treat u as another breadth and not another person.so eventually he doesnt want the preacher to send him from this getto to a nother getto in the sky after his death nor does he want the physical greed of gold or unlimited food or anything that divides him but he justs want a world where people are not divided into poor or rich where families dont crumble where even strangers are nice where even the season winds spread happiness and love.....
Thats what we all dream right??????
women work
this poem is about not just a women but all the women who work tiredlessly all day and night sweeping cleaning restlessly for everyone else she dreams of being appriciated as well and to escape for a little while from all the works and enjoy the beauty that we call life
2007-11-04 13:19:17 · answer #1 · answered by rated 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the first poem he is saying that the heaven that is promised by his religion isn't really what he regards as
heaven. In his own way he is saying that the Bible's vision of heaven came from an earlier time and is not adequate for today's visions.
Interestingly, Mark Twain wrote a essay called "Letter From the Earth" that expressed similar feelings. Here are some quotes:
"In man's heaven everybody sings! The man who did not sing on earth sings there; the man who could not sing on earth is able to do it there. The universal singing is not casual, not occasional, not relieved by intervals of quiet; it goes on, all day long, and every day, during a stretch of twelve hours. And everybody stays; whereas in the earth the place would be empty in two hours."
"Meantime, every person is playing on a harp -- those millions and millions! -- whereas not more than twenty in the thousand of them could play an instrument in the earth, or ever wanted to."
You can read the essay here: www.sacred-texts.com/aor/twain/letearth.htm
In the second poem, the woman is saying that she has nothing except nature's beauty to call her own.
2007-11-04 22:29:06 · answer #2 · answered by MissBehavior 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first one is saying the person does not believe heaven is a place most people describe as a place of milk and honey and streets of gold. He wants his soul to go to a place where he can enjoy his favorite season, his favorite music, and everyone gets along.
2007-11-04 12:54:11 · answer #3 · answered by Dot S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HANK WILLIAMS JR SAID IT BEST " IF HEAVEN AIN'T A LOT LIKE DIXIE I DON'T WANT TO GO."
THIS POEM IS THE SAME. IN THE OPENING
1-16 HE RECANTS ABOUT WHAT HE HAS SEEN HERE ON EARTH.
17-32-COMPARING BIBLE OF LIFE HEREAFTER TO STREETS OF GOLD WHY?WILL NOT NEED. THEN LIFE AS HE WOULD CONSIDER PARADISE TO BE.
33-47--TALKS ABOUT WOMEN'S WORK ON EARTH THINGS TO DO.
48-52- LYING IN THE GRAVE THE SUN SHINES ETC.
53-56--STORM BLOW ME FROM HERE EARTH AND TAKE ME TO REST THE LORD OR HERE AFTER.
60--66 COLDNESS HAS SET IN AND REST IS NOW ALL ONE HAS.
67-70--ALL THE THINGS OF EARTH AS WE KNOW IT ARE ALL HE CAN CALL HIS OWN.
2007-11-04 13:44:09 · answer #4 · answered by ahsoasho2u2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably touching on international war one million and the treachery and branch between those that it brought about. pertaining to to the human beings ridiculing others approximately incorrect judgements that value lives of tens of millions and brought about heartbreak international huge and how there grew to become into no wish...idk despite if that's a solid poem besides =)
2016-10-03 08:50:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first one seems to be a person who seems to not want to go to heaven if heaven is like where they are on Earth now. The secound one sounds like a slave woman.
2007-11-04 13:03:23 · answer #6 · answered by M-2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Way to long to read.
2007-11-04 13:16:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it means that they want heaven to be a good place to go, unlike the world that we live in today. 10 points? please? =] ♥
2007-11-04 12:53:51 · answer #8 · answered by stlroyalty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋