SILENT VOICES SPEAK: 06/26/12

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.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Fear by Sharon Horton

                                                                   Inside my head
                                                                   I scream " I'm Scared!!"
                                                                   I say- "I need your help"
                                                                   I whisper " please
                                                                                don't leave....
                                                                   Inside ...I scream, yell,
                                                                        cry...hiding it all...
                                                                  So Afraid that if I let out
                                                                     how I feel...
                                                                  My biggest fear will
                                                                        Come True.....
                                                                 that I will
in the end...
   Be Alone.

by Sharon H.

STILLNESS by Elizabeth Hipwell

Stillness leads to another place.
Stop and notice.
I can get past the fear of what will be there.
Understanding and compassion are key components,
An awareness of the sound of the walls coming down,
To reveal a more pliant world,
Full to capacity with harmony, love and peace.
The flowers buzz with the promise of new growth.
The ions of the air tingle
In anticipation of what might happen next.
The world in it’s stillness offers endless possibilities
In the span of a second.
Why be afraid of what happens next.
You cannot stop the ebb and flow of life,
But you can get past being scared,
To be on the still shores of calm and serenity.
Stillness does lead to another place.
-Elizabeth Hipwell

IS SHE... by Therese Staples Burton

Is she...

One step from the edge

Poised on the precipice

Ready to take on death

Is she...

Drinking in the Sweet

Breath of caressing wind

Rejuvenating her soul

Inhaling

Is she...

Dancing with desperation

Catapulting into diving

Is she...

Soaring above all

Singing Ecstatic rhythms

Image & Words by Therese