SILENT VOICES SPEAK: 05/02/12

MISSION STATEMENT

SILENT VOICES SPEAK started out as Silent Voices: A Writer’s Workshop, as the first group at the drop-in center at the Broadway location of Community Counseling Centers of Chicago, whose purpose is to empower it’s attendees to form and attend their own groups.

We have branched out as an independent entity. We are silent no more. We say yes to the creative possibilities of life & art...

The mission of SILENT VOICES SPEAK is to give a voice to people who are disenfranchised. Many of the participants in SILENT VOICES SPEAK are also visual and/or performing artists.

Membership is open to all.

Send submissions to lizhipwell@gmail.com.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

I Want To Draw

I want to draw a world where
Cancer ..has finally been cured!
A world full of colors- bright,
beautiful, splashes of
fun.
Where children are safe in
their homes, and neighbors
look out for each other, instead of
saying "It's not my problem".
I want to draw a world ..
where people care
about each other
friends, strangers..
what would that look like?
What shapes? Colors?
Do I use pencil. ink ?
Can something so delicate
and ever changing
be done in paint?
Acrylic, Oil, or Watercolor?

I want to draw a world
where every pet has
a good home, no more
discarding, hurting, abandoning,
these precious creatures.
It's a world without the
horrific Puppy Mills-
here every one adopts.

I want to draw a world
where Spring and
Summer
are the longest
seasons.
Where Autumn's beauty
is always amazing.

In this world I am a Mom, In
this world I was never abused,
never got stage IV- since there was
a cure.
In this world I want to draw-
I create the life I never lived.
-Sharon