The Metaphor Exercise is one of many creative writing exercises we use in the multi-lingual, multi-racial, multi-generational Revolutionary Journalism Class at PeopleSkool.
These are the beautiful pieces of prose and poetry that came from the 2nd class of the 2011 winter session.
La Alfombra
By Julio Chavez
La Alfombra Azul como el agua del oceano.
Y las paredes a; rededor.
Decoradas con imagines de heroes que seguramente
Los libros de historia no van a mejorar.
Pero que nostros no debemos y no tenemos olvidar.
En un futuro sercano. NUestras fotographias pueden
Colgar y contra la verdada y hacer la historia con poder.
Shoes swathing- By Michael
Shoes swathing across an aged petroleum carpet, insulating the office with painted incensed oil-spill. Landfill bound attaching it’s decay to yet another thirsty forest, from painted panels encasing writers to the county debris pile, choking the dirt itself from it’s seeds.
La Metafora De alfombra
By Ingrid DeLeon
Soy un techo como este cuarto
Pues asie siento pero si no tubiera
Pero si yo no tubiera bacea me cairia
Y dejaria de ser un techo
Seria un piso donde todos caminaran sin berme
Pero tengo 4 bases que me sostienen y no me dejan caer
Como esas 4 paredes que sostienen este techo
Asi son mis simientos o mis bases que no me dejan caer
Estas bases son mis 4 hijos
Que son tan fuertes como un hierro
Juntos somos fuertes como un roble y nadie no bensera
The Rug Became Water
By Libah Sheppard
THE RUG BECAME WATER AND WALLS BECAME MOUNTAINS
THE WATER FLOWED THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS, THE AIR OF CITRUS FRUIT SURROUNDED MY NOSTRILS, AS THE CLOUDS RAINED OF COINS THAT FLOWED DOWN THE RIVER SURROUNDED BY MOUNTAINS, AND THEIR I STOOD AT THE OTHER END OF THE RIVER RECEIVING ALL THE BLESSINGS FLOWING INTO MY SOUL.
World with No Borders
By Muteado
World with no borders where I sit with my brothers and sisters,
Blue sky surrounds us,
Holding us
In her hands
Surrounded by Glyrophics
Of who we are
On top of green grass
The Room is like a Field
By Toby Kramer
`The room is like a field with papers and chairs growing out of it like shrubs and tufts of grass. The walls are huge trees and the ceiling is the canopy of the forest. Books and boxes perch on the branches of the trees like forest animals in their burrows.