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brief 4 – gifting activity

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Partners: Darvey To and Jaidyn Attard

Group: B (make an audio visual based on a poem, then write a response – poem or 400 word prose – based on the partner’s audiovisual from the response of a poem)

NOTE: Just realised that whilst many chose the same poem to do this, we interpreted that we both do a DIFFERENT one…so either way uhhhhhhhhh….just roll with what we got? 🤷🏻‍♀️

DARVEY’S VIDEO, BASED ON STANFIELD’S ‘[The earth shakes]’ 

JAIDYN’S {poetic} RESPONSE: 

Pay over attention to all things,
standing at the edge of fury; or don’t—you might not need to
be strapped down, with your eyes
held open like Alex ‘The Large’ to see the destruction, to be reminded of the failure of our kind
to save this precious earth.
Listen:
it sounds like a plane flying low,
rumbling, a dragon’s cavernous belly.
The uprooted trees spin and snap, shrapnel-dirt leaps from the ground
leaving warzone shellholes behind to remind those who want not to be reminded at all;
and the ground under me shakes
with the force of a bus lurching to a halt, throwing me down
on my face.
Open your eyes now,
naysayer,
tell me of the ruin scattered before your poor, shocked body.
How did things get this bad?
Ask the soil, the waters, the clouds and they’ll tell you the story of the earth that shook.

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JAIDYN’S VIDEO, BASED ON WILLIAM’S ‘Blizzard‘ 

DARVEY’S {poetic} RESPONSE: 

clouds are grey

and i’m heavily dazed 

wind is heavy

and my world is rippled

 

wonder and yonder

desolate spaces 

lurking and searching

for home

 

alone 

so far from you

yet

i can’t see you

 

sunlight glimmers

fog lingers

birds twitter 

nature prospers

 

there are so much of you

but which one is you?

step, step, step,

till i walk to you

 

colour blooms before you

and yet

i am blinded 

in shades of grey

 

it’s cold here

It’s empty here

am I here?

are you here?