Tracy Zeman's students at Pulaski Fine Arts Academy read Lorca’s “De Poeme de la Soleá” and “Paisaje" in both Spanish and English. Then, the students were prompted to employ specific and unusual language to describe either a land or landscape, and to experiment with shorter lines. Studnets were challenged to either write the poem in Spanish and English or to write the poem in English and use at least 5 Spanish words:
Las Nuves
My land is
so bella!
Is warm
like el sol in my skin.
I dream in
the nuves…
who knows
de que
I dream about
amor…
I dream about
my love…
who that person
is…yo solo se…
Well it’s time
to go…
my sueno is
almost over…
(Jeismarie C)
The Tierra of Agua
Where you swim to see the
tesoro to see the gold to see
yourself under water the people
that are ancestor to see the land
and to feel it come up from
the ground to see it shine
from the tierra. Isreal
Caliente land
Sequo in many places
Vieja tress and
no animals
Tierra of no surviving
(Kimberley A.)
Puerto Rico
Its like a dream
a place with peace
as I hear the coqui
The grass is green
the beaches are calm
palm trees flow, the
rhythm of leaves swaying
together.
The land is large, filled
with houses, chickens
and horses.
The temperature
is hot and
helping the gardens
not dry but bloom
into beautiful
flowers.
(Delilah G.)
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