These past few months which we have spent together as an English class, we have developed the project “Poem To Prose”, which was a new experience to us, a really good one, we would say. We all found this work something refreshing, since we had the opportunity to analyze super cool poems, and, from them, we tried to create our own stories. In addition, we certainly expanded our knowledge of poets and poems, which was simply great.

This book is a collection of short stories inspired by different poems. The book came along after we had a few classes about poems proposed by the teacher. The plots were developed by the students. The stories reflect the real value of life.

If you find this book, you will read my story. I wrote it for the next generations to enjoy it and learn about my life. Let me tell you what happened to me.

My name is Daniel, I was born in the year 2000. I was a happy man, I had a good life, a great father, and a great mother, I had everything to live a normal and stabilized life. But something changed in my good and normal life when I was 21 years-old.

Every afternoon I went with my friends to the soccer stadium when I was at university. One night, when I left the stadium it was dark, and a drunk man crashed his big car against me. I don’t remember what the car was but I do remember it was big and black like the night. I was scared, but somehow, I left as if nothing had happened.

From Inspiration to Creation is an antology of short stories written by first grade students of Escola Vera Cruz. Here, we tried to gather the most various themes that can be approached by a narrative: from the story of a jaguar that becomes aware of its feelings to the story of a girl recovering her self love. During this process, we realized how poetry and narratives can take us to whole different worlds. We can be transported from our beds or classrooms to World War II, or to the bedroom of a girl that´s living a double life.