Healing Words
Herefordshire Mind

Students were asked what they enjoyed about Creative Writing. Here are some of the responses:

"I write to create an imaginative world"

"Creative writing unexpectedly brings out or reveals ideas and their relationships from deep within the human psyche"

"To use my imagination, explore and understand my emotions and achieve something"

"It is exciting and therapeutic… has opened my mind
to new literature and concepts"

"I like expressing myself"

"It expands my mind, stirs thoughts and feelings which can be expressed creatively - surprising results sometimes"

"I am transported to a new world of hopes, dreams and kindness"

"It gets things out of the system, it spreads humour, it encourages mutual competition; it wakes a long-dulled mind to ideas, it is fun."

"It is fun and I like mixing with the class"
Beautiful Old Age

Remember the young days never forgotten
Now we think of growing older
Whether or not we feel happy about this.

The days are growing more short,
Each year seems like a week
However, we are having fun from day to day,
Not stressed any longer,
Living life to the full,
Not dwelling on problems as we used to do.

You begin to think of life as beautiful,
Seeing the flowers bloom,
The birds singing,
Looking through my window
The sun comes shining through.
Shirley Reed
            Wednesday Morning

            Wednesday morning
            The sun shines
            Through my window
            Illuminating my room
            I arise
            And make my way
            Through one more day

            (name withheld)

            Choughed



            Red, Vermillion, Scarlet beak and claw
            Black shining iridescent feathers more.
            Soaring, gliding, stalling high
            Right up there in the sky.
            Turning, Curling, Winding, circling round
            Enjoying flying well above the ground.
            I am free from all the earth up here
            A black spirit water reflects in the mere.

            Julian Warwick