To Love a Child
©2016 Susan Noyes Anderson
To love a child is bliss complete,
her feisty ways, his squishy feet,
his face alight, her brown eyes dancing,
a wave goodbye while backward glancing.
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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.
New Year Glee
©2015 Susan Noyes Anderson
image by Julie Tupas on Unsplash
Oh, how I love a fledgling year,
wiped free of gloom and haze,
where all the calendar is clear
to mark in sunny days.
Keeping Christmas
©2015 Susan Noyes Anderson
image by Stephane Juban on Unsplash
When every guest has taken leave,
and gifts are all unwrapped and gone,
I take a little time to grieve
before good memories linger on.
Christmas All Around
©2016 Susan Noyes Anderson
The creatures of the forest
were gathered all around.
The day was Christmas morning.
Soft snow lay on the ground.
To This End Was He Born
©2015 Susan Noyes Anderson
image by Tim Henninger on
churchofjesuschrist.org
A child was given to the world
one perfect, starlit night.
He came to bless us with His truth
and fill our souls with light.
He was the Son of God and Mary,
human yet divine,
the only One who had the pow’r
to take your sins and mine.
A Savior Is Born
©2015 Susan Noyes Anderson
image from churchofjesuschrist.org
One quiet night in Bethlehem,
One rough and lonely manger bed.
One star as bright as breaking day,
One Baby nestled in the hay.
A Little Child Shall Lead
©2015 Susan Noyes Anderson
image from churchofjesuschrist.org
Who knows and loves the Savior more
than a believing child?
His faith is fresh and innocent;
her spirit, meek and mild.
Thine Arm Is Ample
©2015 Susan Noyes Anderson
image from churchofjesuschrist.org
When I am weakened by the pain,
the sorrow every life must bear,
I reach out for thy steadfast hand
and feel a sacred presence there.