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Words/Community~Poems Read other poems
by CWP students "How
can you be blind to your own mind?" "Time
is flying when people are dying." "Tomorrow
will shiver in the sky "If
I could change into a bullet nobody would lose their lives." "With
my immortal imagination, my eyes see..." Can you make your voice fly out of this room, down the hall, into every class? Can you make your voice fly out the window into the community, into the world? What would happen if we put all of our voices together? Can you imagine how loud we could be and how our chances of being heard are a million times improved? The lines at the top of this page are from children who experienced the power of joining visions and together exploring the power of being listened to, not once, not twice, but so many times that they became aware of who they are as individuals, as a learning community, as a generation who has what it takes to make non-violent change happen. Participants in Community-Word collaborative writing workshops explore ways to transform their hopes and fears into tangible lines of poetry that when sequenced together build a world where it is safe to speak out and question the present and the future. A Community-Word workshop works at strengthening individual voice and at the same time developing group voice. Community-Word workshops have taken place across state lines, age divisions, economic differences, across races, in between school years and as a part of a university writing workshop. Community-Word writings have been turned into spoken word performances, murals, and anthologies. Check out the mural section to see how our participants have transformed lines from their Community~Poems into murals.
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