As Bleakness Bows to Bounty
©2009 Susan Noyes Anderson
image by Kundan Ramisetti on Unsplash
Oh tree, whose barren limb no comfort gives,
Whose nakedness no calming color brings,
cover in blossoms every soul that lives
and nest, in every heart, a bird that sings.
image by Karl Fredrickson on Unsplash
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Tags: adversity, hope, joy, nature, seasons, trees
Susan Noyes Anderson
Susan Noyes Anderson is the author of At the End of Your Rope, There’s Hope, Deseret Book, ©1997; Awaken Your Spiritual Power: The Fairy Godmother Isn’t Coming!, Karisma Press, ©1999; and His Children (poetry only, photos are by Anita Schiller), Vantage Point Press, ©2003.