Opposite Poem

It is day two and the sky is pouring hard rain. The team began the day with BSPCA, an animal shelter where students and volunteers can walk the many abandoned dogs and show attention towards the lost and sickly kittens and pups. We will return next week, hopefully with less wind in the air. However the bad weather, the kids have shined their light into the classrooms and will soon be seen on stage next Friday! The team already has completed two days of drama, production and dance master classes from 4 to 6pm with M.A.P students and students from the village Mashupo. Our day doesn't end there, after dinner we have rehearsals for Tapestry. To make up for lost time we extended rehearsal to 9:30pm in order to polish our three original drama pieces and six student choreographed dances all lit and designed by Candace's production team of M.A.P students. The drama students are exploring the words of August Wilson in his speech the Ground On Which I Stand and I'm taking the girls and creating a woman's piece with the words of Ntozake Shange and Maya Angelou.

Below is Group B's opposite poem created yesterday off of Maya Anglou's short poem Insomniac.

Dreamer
Here are all days when dawn works promiscuously
loud or obedient
and in the end
sleeping fire's lose.
They're useless toward your enemy
aren't significant like healed humility
but less than happiness.

The poetry class also explored two of Langston Hughe's blues poems and some of the singers in the group had their time to shine with the accompaniment and guidance of musician Andrew Williams.

Kerry Warren