Children's Poetry
The Poetry on this page was written by children attending the family poetry day on Tuesday 13th February 2007. Email education@liverpoolcathedral.org.uk if you spot your poem.
We hope you enjoy reading them.
The Reredos
Bronze
Brown-gold disciples
Eating bread
Drinking wine.
From a dark arch
They shine
Below shining lines
And Jesus on the cross.
It is light and dark
All light and dark.
ALEX ELLISON
I sang a Christmas song
I sang a Christmas song
For the baby.
The song was called
Away in a Manger.
The baby’s birthday
Is Christmas night.
I saw his Mummy and Daddy
Holding him tight.
He had no toys
And I did a song for the baby.
KATY REEVES
I am only a spark
I am only a spark
Make me a fire.
I am only a minute
Make me an hour.
I am only a pond
Make me a lake.
I am only a tile
Make me a floor.
I am only a bone
Make me a body.
MATTHEW CALDWELL
In a busy city by a stormy sea
In a busy city by a stormy sea
Inside a gigantic cathedral
Was a picture of me…..
MATTHEW CALDWELL
West Window
Pictures in glass
Blue as the sunny sky
Red as roses
Green as leaves
And yellow as the shining sun,
Yellow as the growing sun.
This window is full of colour
Full of kings and horses
And a red shape like a dinosaur!
CAITLIN
Straight White Candles
Glittery and shiny
Straight white candles
Shining like straight white angels.
Can the candles fly?
Can they speak?
Or dance in the blue sky?
Dance in the fluffy clouds?
Sing in the sequin sky?
No.
But they light the dark corners
They shine shine SHINE!
MEGAN GRIFFITHS & LOUISE ROBINSON
Space
Inside this stone building
Is………………… space.
The candles shine like stars
And the brass glows gold like the sun.
Over there the font zooms upwards
Like a space shuttle.
Lamps glisten like moons
In this strange stone space.
CHLOE LAVERY
Sunshine
The sunshine shines
In the sky
In through the windows
Down to the ground.
It lights up the sky
It lights up the candles
It lights up my eyes
It lights up my heart.
SHONA WILLIAMS
West Window
The window
Colourful as parrots
Red as pomegranates
Dripping blue as tropical seas
Gleaming green as jungle leaves
I want to step into this window
And SHINE!
HEATHER WILLIAMS
This space
Fifty elephants high
And fat as a giant whale
This place is enormous!
Sometimes the space is full of prayers
Or Bible stories
Full of praise and singing.
The singing echoes
So that one voice grows to ten.
Liverpool sings, London sings,
America sings – the whole world sings loud songs
Making a gi-normous echo.
ANESU (GOD WITH US), ANOTIDA (GOD LOVES)
& ANOSHAMISA (GOD IS WONDERFUL)
Step Brother – Step Sister
My Dad’s a scaffolder
Her Dad’s a brickie.
They’re strong.
My Dad balances and grips
Her Dad has an eye for straightness
And the right mix.
Her Dad and my Dad
Wear steel toe pads
And they are together
In this cathedral window -
Family.
JAMES & BONNIE
This place
This place is high as the sky
But brown as a beach
The floor is black and white as a zebra
The floor is slide-y as snow
Slide-y as ice.
Let’s SKATE!
MAYA-DAISY PHILLIPS
Cathedral Tree
It’s so big…
Five trees high.
The pillars are the spine of this tree
Rough, hard and strong.
Grey-brown sandstone
Holding up the giant roof.
MARC ROBINSON
The Font
The font is a stone rocket
It whooshes to the starry sky
Travelling up in the blue air
Fast as a jet.
We bring babies here
For the cross and the water
To this place of stone and sky.
CARA & AMELIA GIBBONS.
Up we go
Up we go
In the shivery lift, the humming lift
To the top
To the highest top
Of the old sandstone tower.
Walk around the sheltering walls
See the new stadium
And the yellow duck boat.
See the houses like Lego
And people like dots
It’s cool being high
Higher than the bronze bells
Higher than the blue sky
Higher than all of Liverpool
TILLY & DYLAN MEAGHAN
God’s Stars
A pattern of stars
Not shooting stars
But still stars
Like spiders made of light
Webs of light
From the shining candles
Each one a prayer.
ROBBIE & CRAIG DAVIES
It’s BIG
It’s BIG
It’s BIG
It’s BIG
And it echoes
Like welly-wet tunnels
Or the underneath of splashy bridges.
Shout Joseph
Shout Jack
And the noise comes bouncing back!
JOSEPH & JACK ROBERTS
The East Window
The stone frames stand dark as a winter tree
Black and bare.
Around it glass shines
Red as cranberry juice
Blue as the evening sky.
It is a time story –
The tree will have leaves
Summer will bring joy.
STEVEN SHANNON
This space
Is HUGE
Bigger than a dinosaur built with stone bones
Lie down!
Look up!
See the zig-zag dome frame of the tower
Like sandstone diamonds
Or high-flying stone kites.
It is amazing
This space
This huge HUGE space.
KATHRYN & EAMON MORAN
The three of them
The three of them
Overlapping, layered
Like a cocoon –
Something that will grow
From an earthy worm
To an air-thing, a sky-thing.
A delightful change
A change full of light.
This statue –
Rough clothes, smooth hands
And the baby
Smooth as a stone – as a pebble on a beach
Stroked smooth by a thousand hands –
We touch Jesus
And Jesus touches us.
