Voices UnBroken is a community based organization dedicated to providing under-heard members of the community with the tools and opportunity for creative
self-expression. Through creative writing workshops in jails, prisons, group homes, residential treatment facilities, and various other transitional and alternative settings, Voices UnBroken nurtures the inherent need in all people to tell their stories. It is our belief that through this telling of stories and sharing of dreams community growth becomes possible.
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Voices Beyond Bars is a program geared specifically towards working with currently incarcerated youth and adults with the goal of exploring self-expression through the art of creative writing.
Speaking Our Voices is an initiative that reaches into a variety of community and transitional settings that are often outside of mainstream educational systems. Workshops and special programs are designed to serve as a catalyst for the creative process. This initiative will provide participants with a venue for sharing their past and setting goals for their future.
The Voices Network is a collective of former workshop participants, young people, teachers, writers and other artists dedicated to the incorporation of student voices in a learning community. The network involves trainings, workshops, conferences and countless informal networking forums.
Voices Ink is the critical element that focuses on having the voices of our participants heard in a larger community. This includes publication in journals, anthologies and newsletters. Our participants have been featured in Urban Latino Magazine, BLU Magazine, YM Magazine, The Rosewood Newsletter, and The Hunter Envoy.
Who I'd like to meet: BROKEN SHIP
We rock on a broken ship
with no destination, barely floating
on angry waters.
Pieces everywhere, storms everyday
and thoughts of how we will make it through
flow through the tears that overflow the sea.
Waves after waves, we rise and get a hint
of high, a view of a near land but in an instant
we are low and we see nothing but fear in each other's
face.
We worry about the yesterday, the today and the
tomorrow without realizing we might sink today, if not
yesterday then maybe today will be the day.
Seagals fly over us and by now we recognize each one,
by now names were given and enterntainment was developed
through the seagals that we think might shows us the path.
Through the cold winters and the hot summers, we remain
in the water, sinking an inch more everyday, unknowngly
responding to each other's breath.
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My poems are unforeseen and genuinely unnerving and unexpectedly at times and can become a moving experience but yet seem to still bring you to a pleasurable time of un telling vibes.
My mission is not to be unspoken and to provide a powerful mood that will not leave you misunderstood my identity is hidden from some but because I can touch you with my words they will be no need to look further because I will become your favorite author.
No need for the big screen because my thoughts will enter more deep just as shovel would enter a grave the unthinkerable will happen as we become just friends from a mental state.
I see an Illusions of a body that is out of reach but for some reason I can see my self in her dreams as I become her sheets, as I cover her body and what a sight that must be but I will wait for the right time so my eyes can examine her fully.
With beauty that is flirtatish also full lips that are contagious and a body so thick that is my favorite wish with so many curves so I can scale as if I was on a mountain of pure bliss with long dark hair down to her hips.
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With no Direction I leap over these mountains that appear so high in my everyday life.
Just as I climb these cliffs with the strongest grip I still might slip into the rapids of many turns and twists.
I look down this slope and notice I have no rope to keep me from falling and hitting the ground would become something more fatal.
So I close my eyes wide shut until I became very calm with no more sweat in my palms and start back up this mountain of trust where I seem to fall in this vally of love.
Pride is what I knew a man made from the streets dapper Dan's is how i was fitted all came quick or did it, this is what I thought until I dropped my seed and change was about to come just like a blue print was mapped out for me.
Envy was about to take place you could feel the vibe as the street lights come on and the night was about to become the stage to some, just like a runway with out the models but flashes were still about to pop like bottles.
Greed was not in me so I choose a path to where I can last and go on and teach my seed on how not to be me , so alone is how I stood and looked for the good book to reach me where I could not be touched oh so I thought.
Redemption is what took place and in exchange it brought me peace and knowledge with a higher learning then most common college scholar, for I learned how to survive with a 9 to 5 instead of a 20 to life.
Lust found its way but not in me for it was in someones other plan to cheat under the sheets and what better way then to show me that sins don't always begin from ones self to see.
So I walk alone now with one eye open and thoughts keeping me on point with my knowing life is a gamble on anything we do but we make the choice to where we want to be and those are my spoken word's
THANKS FOR THE ADD AND ITS A PLEASURE TO SHARE MY WORLD WHERE LIFE HAS BROUGHT OUT THIS TALENT FOUND IN ME ...
"More Then A Poets Pen"
As you sit there and read my words does your mind begin to spin with so much I put in you have no choice but to read until the end, between you and me we share a night wind that blows in the dark with sparks left un set is this all from a broken heart as my whisper echoes through all the silence.
I can set the tone of a relaxing moment as you read my thoughts that will take you into a daze of nothing but a secret fantasy where only our thoughts can be shared without a bed.
My words are actions I can't peform because we are both from the same world where we can't touch so I use my words instead to give you that rush the same one you get as if I was to breath on your neck and there is more to me then just being a poets pen.
I be the bestseller with my poems I keep you at the edge of your seat waiting for more as I put the pieces together from my mind which is my laboratory and you will see how this all turns out to be true a story. Making decisions have not been easy but we are all just ordinary people and now the time has come to open up once again to a friend that will put an end to all this madness, she ask of my opinions and keeps using questions to learn more about me and the best way to help her out is to let me write it out. My words are not to complex so here are a few about things you might have not known yet, let my words hold you tight as I begin to recite feeling my power as it gets stronger and it starts to entice you into wanting to reunite those blood lines that lead to your heart where some one has pulled them apart. Let me be the doctor let me operate where some one has made a mistake thinking your heart would never awake, as I build up all that has been crushed healing you will not be hard to do because this man is here to save the day and I might not have a cape like a super hero but I hope my words and thoughts will be good enough for you.
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