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From the Ted Talk by Cristina Domenech: Poetry that frees the soul

Unscramble the Blue Letters


The hreat cracks under sad gazes, rides on stmors that spread fire, lifts chests lowered by shame, knows that it's not just reading and going on, it also wishes to see the iitnfnie blue.

The heart sits down to think about things, fights to avoid being ordinary, tries to love without hurting, breathes the sun, giving courage to itself, surrenders, travels toward reason.

The heart ftgihs among the swamps, skirts the edge of the underworld, flals exhausted, but won't give in to what's easy, while irregular steps of intoxication wake up, wake the stienslls.

I'm Martín Bustamante, I'm a prisoner in Unit 48 of San Martín, today is my day of trapmoery release. And for me, poetry and laturtiere have canhged my life.

Open Cloze


The _____ cracks under sad gazes, rides on ______ that spread fire, lifts chests lowered by shame, knows that it's not just reading and going on, it also wishes to see the ________ blue.

The heart sits down to think about things, fights to avoid being ordinary, tries to love without hurting, breathes the sun, giving courage to itself, surrenders, travels toward reason.

The heart ______ among the swamps, skirts the edge of the underworld, _____ exhausted, but won't give in to what's easy, while irregular steps of intoxication wake up, wake the _________.

I'm Martín Bustamante, I'm a prisoner in Unit 48 of San Martín, today is my day of _________ release. And for me, poetry and __________ have _______ my life.

Solution


  1. literature
  2. heart
  3. changed
  4. fights
  5. infinite
  6. stillness
  7. temporary
  8. storms
  9. falls

Original Text


The heart cracks under sad gazes, rides on storms that spread fire, lifts chests lowered by shame, knows that it's not just reading and going on, it also wishes to see the infinite blue.

The heart sits down to think about things, fights to avoid being ordinary, tries to love without hurting, breathes the sun, giving courage to itself, surrenders, travels toward reason.

The heart fights among the swamps, skirts the edge of the underworld, falls exhausted, but won't give in to what's easy, while irregular steps of intoxication wake up, wake the stillness.

I'm Martín Bustamante, I'm a prisoner in Unit 48 of San Martín, today is my day of temporary release. And for me, poetry and literature have changed my life.

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Important Words


  1. avoid
  2. blue
  3. breathes
  4. bustamante
  5. changed
  6. chests
  7. courage
  8. cracks
  9. day
  10. easy
  11. edge
  12. exhausted
  13. falls
  14. fights
  15. fire
  16. gazes
  17. give
  18. giving
  19. heart
  20. hurting
  21. infinite
  22. intoxication
  23. irregular
  24. life
  25. lifts
  26. literature
  27. love
  28. lowered
  29. martín
  30. ordinary
  31. poetry
  32. prisoner
  33. reading
  34. reason
  35. release
  36. rides
  37. sad
  38. san
  39. shame
  40. sits
  41. skirts
  42. spread
  43. steps
  44. stillness
  45. storms
  46. sun
  47. surrenders
  48. swamps
  49. temporary
  50. today
  51. travels
  52. underworld
  53. unit
  54. wake
  55. wishes