Voices From the Desert Vol. 1, n.° 2

The acrostics you are about to read in this journal inspired the EFL teachers’ creative writing and evolved around the theme “Tacna a beautiful and clean city full of diversity”. The thematic here intends to provoke positive feelings among teachers in times of COVID-19 pandemic. Can spring defeat the blues that the pandemic brought upon us? Some of the poems we find in this journal allows us to feel that it is possible through imagination with a deeply rooted local sense. Spring imposes itself through the pandemic bringing a renewed sense of life and showing that as seeds break the ground after the cold winter and flowers blossom when the time comes, we, as people, as society, can also impose ourselves through di􀆍cult times and bloom like flowers in spring.

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Contents

Forewords Mag. Maria Helena Fávaro............................................................................................................vi

Editorial Mag. Roxana Carolina Perca Chagua...............................................................................................8

Spring Illusion Lic. Rosa Giovanna Rocha Monroy.........................................................................................15

Georgeous Spring Lic. Yolanda Quispe Cáceres............................................................................................17

Beautiful Spring Lic. Marisabel Karina Castro Siña.......................................................................................19

Colorful Spring Lic. Amelia Nelida Zegarra Hinojosa...................................................................................21

My Spring Lic. Marilú Claudia Melendez Conde...........................................................................................23

Spring, my Beautiful Spring! Lic. Edith Marilu Condori Lanchipa..............................................................25

Spring and Youth Lic. Gladys Susana Rojas Perca.......................................................................................27

Tacna Memories in Spring Lic. Claudia Graciela Zavala Contreras...........................................................29

Spring is Renovation Lic. Noemí Gladys Maquera Ticacala ........................................................................31

Acrostic Lic. Eliana Lisett Florez Teran............................................................................................................33

A Wonderful City Lic. Lilian Maritza Ancachi Pari..........................................................................................35