Our Father Prayer
for Angela Palacious
people go to England, Canada, elsewhere,
think that they are up there
but it's all down here, even when,
even where it snows
went to Scandinavia but I was still on earth
waiting here, waiting there,
for thy kingdom to come,
thy will to be done on earth
as it is in heaven
© Obediah Michael Smith, 2007
3:45 p.m. 28/07/07
posted by Obie Quiet at 3:43 PM
Obediah Michael Smith has published 18 books of poems, a short novel and a cassette recording of his poems. At University of Miami and University of the West Indies, Cavehill, Barbados, he has done writers workshops with Lorna Goodison, Earl Lovelace, Grace Nichols, Merle Collins, and Mervyn Morris. He is a 1971 graduate of St. Anne’s School. He attended Memphis State University, 1973 to 1976 and majored in Speech and Drama and Biology. He has a B.A. Degree in Dramatics and Speech from Fisk University. Employed by The Ministry of Education, he taught English Language and Literature in high schools on New Providence, on Grand Bahama and on Inagua. In 1989, for six months, he lived in Paris, France and studied French at L’Alliance Francaise. He has two daughters and two sons. He is at present, for a time, residing in Mexico City.
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