Five poems
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Songs of Sacred Places, with an introduction by
Blake Morrison, contains 84 poems recording the
amazing insights of schoolchildren, aged from 6 to
16, about their own sacred places.
(available from our
book section)
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From the Sacred Places Writing Competition
A Little Prayerful Place
A little prayerful place Where Mary is
carved With Jesus in her arms. A dark smell of
candle smoke
By Sam Addison, aged 7, St Mary’s Primary School,
Knaresborough
There is a Gloomy Place
There is a gloomy place, Silent, dim
and dirty. Holy, cold with candle wax Terrible,
rough and dusty rocks.
Small but solid and
lonely, I went to visit it once. As I went
inside I saw Mary and her Son.
One step
after another I began to like its gentle sounds. I
stepped up on the altar And began to pray, When
I went to that place.
By Phillipa Batt, aged 7, St Mary’s Primary School,
Knaresborough
I Stand All On My Own
I stand all on my own Cold in winter,
hot in summer Watching people rushing, Building
churches, fighting, Dying in the wars People
are buried under my roots I am old, 3,000
years old Old, wrinkled and wise…
by Connor Porter, aged 6, Stawley Primary School,
Ashbrittle
We Looked
We looked and smelt It was a special
place. A quiet place. We took our shoes off
our feet. Why? So that we could be quiet.
by Charlene Sullivan, Shelley Special School,
Kennington
My Sacred Place
Nobody has got my brain Nobody has got
my ideas Nobody feels like me Nobody has got
thoughts like me Nobody has got pictures like me Nobody
has words like me Nobody has my dreams That is
why my brain is my sacred place.
by Sana Ahmad, aged 10, Rushey Mead Primary School,
Leicester
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