January 2012

College Student Poem Success

Stourbridge College first year Childcare student, Sophie Waterfield, has put pen to paper and shown that she has creative talent by writing a poem that’s been published in a young writer’s poetry book.

‘Glass Heart’ was inspired by Sophie’s Grandmother who had passed away. Sophie, 16, from Stourbridge, sent the poem off to a young writer’s competition and was advised that her inspirational words would be published in a book of young writers called ‘All We Hold Dear’ which is being sold in book shops up and down the country.

Sophie said: “I wrote the poem when I was about 14 in memory of my Nan who passed away. It took me three or four days to complete. It has been read out at the Tree of Light memorial service held at Mary Stevens Hospice and I alsoreceived a badge from Blue Peter for it. I love writing and am doing more and more of it.”

Sophie hopes to become a primary school teacher when she finishes her course in Childcare. Poem, Glass Heart.

GLASS HEART

Glass panes make up a heart
A fragile centre piece
An ornament of value precious and true
On a shelf vain close to you
A loyal companion shaped for you
A broken heart through her pain and suffering
Has left us knowing that no sharp ends will cross her anymore
She knows we love her so
Although her departure in the sky has left my heart shattered
My centre piece remains strong
Red happy thoughts circulating my body
Of days that are forever a keep sake
We knew God had called for her heart of gold
To watch over me and my family
An angel on my window sill

A rose we lay on her glass heart
Forever and a day
Her glass heart lives on in ours

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