Jamie.D's+Favourite+Poems

I believe that together we can really make a difference One man cannot make a difference, but if we can partner If we can have a collective will, and a willingness to make a difference in our nation We can really do make a difference
 * Lyrics to Bullet And A Target, by Bliss n Eso ** :

[Vocals: Muzi {Connections Zulu Choir Soloist}] What you have done, is put yourself between a bullet and a target Won't be long, won't be long...

[Verse 1: Bliss] All it took was one in a trillion In a world where they're gunning civilians Where conspiracies just drop on us like plummeting buildings Government villains at night, we are renegades who fight Under a pilgrims plight for a better way of life See we sail the seas with a sun stained atlas To escape the day to day mental mundane madness That consumes us, it's true, though my real answer lays Is stepping back to view life's real grand Monet But crucial issues are lost in this crazy worlds wealth How can lust for bucks outweigh one baby girl's health? Through the cyclone we hit the Third World and found heroes With nothing but still everything, smiling at ground zero

[Chorus x2: Connections Zulu Choir] What you've done here, is put yourself between a bullet and a target And it won't be long before you're pulling yourself away

[Verse 2: Eso] So let the bullets in the air turn to raining rose petals That covers the Earth's surface while the children throw pebbles From dreams to themes, to a crack in the concrete From a seed to a tree, I make it happen at God speed Whatever happened to increase the peace Fight the power for people to defeat the beast Well it's right here, it's right now It's anything I plan It's a poem that proves a point It's everything I am So on a rainy day I made my way To the promised land and back And now it's safe to say in a crazy way This song is where it's at It's equal verse what wasn't given Teachers verse the problem children Evil verse the honest living People verse the politicians

[Chorus x2: Connections Zulu Choir] What you've done here, Is put yourself between a bullet and a target And it won't be long before you're pulling yourself away [x2]

[Verse 3: Eso] This is definite Like the sun will rise Pure like the thought if I jump I'll fly I am revolution, my path is belief So how can they possibly stop what they can't even see

[Bliss:] See they tax the poor Their evil got em' coughing up There's no real freedom under a legal modern mafia Set the goal and unite, get cocked and take aim The people are the power to make change So make way

[Chorus x3: Connections Zulu Choir] What you've done here, Is put yourself between a bullet and a target And it won't be long before you're pulling yourself away ​

=__Analysis__=

These lyrics are written by the band Bliss n Eso, this band is an Australian hip hop band, and in there songs it really tells what its like out in the real world, tells it what it is. I guess that like a lot of hip hop and rap bands out there they don’t blabber on about useless stuff they just go straight to the point. This song is a perfect example of what really is going on out there in the world right under our noses, and that is what I like about this song how its telling the truth about stuff that is trying to be covered up, but the song isn’t about sorrow and death, I think that these lyrics carry hope in there words, and how these problems may be out there, but we can change them, we can band together and make the difference. I really like these lyrics and the attitude that they carry with them. How it tells of the dangers, but tells of the hope that people have in the crisis’s that happen all over the world. There will always be people that are fighting for what is right and rising up against the evil that is in the world that they will never win, it’s the amount of emotion that this song carries in its words that really means a lot and listen to what the song is really saying, that is what I really like about this song.

= The Naming Of Cats by T. S. Eliot = The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter When I tell you, a cat must have three different names. First of all, there's the name that the family use daily, Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James, Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey-- All of them sensible everyday names. There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter, Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames: Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter-- But all of them sensible everyday names. But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular, A name that's peculiar, and more dignified, Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular, Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride? Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum, Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat, Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum- Names that never belong to more than one cat. But above and beyond there's still one name left over, And that is the name that you never will guess; The name that no human research can discover-- But the cat himself knows, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

=__Reflection on the images that occur to me__= This poem is really basic in the sense that what is happening in it is extremely clear, you dont have to look deeper into the poem to find the meaning of the peom. And I am not really sure about the point of this poem because it is really straight forward and it isnt a puzzle were you have to read it agian and agian to find what all the meaning is, it is just really straight forward and I dont think there is a differnt meaning to this poem. When I read this poem what I imagine is what is being said, so I guess the imagery that I get from reading this poem is really straight forward. the reason that I like this poem is because of its simplicity that you dont usually see in poems and it is a really differnt poem and how it is so simple