©1993 Susan Noyes Anderson, Star Light, Star Books, Inc.

Will our hearts ever know the love
That does not count the loss;
That bows itself beneath our sin
And suffers on the cross;

©1999 Susan Noyes Anderson, Awaken Your Spiritual Power, Karisma Press (poem only)

I thought I walked this earth alone,
beneath my burdens bowed,
until I found I could not bear
their weight and cried aloud.

©1997 Susan Noyes Anderson, At the End of Your Rope, There’s Hope,
Deseret Book (poem only)

Sometimes, when I am quite alone and still,
The Spirit speaks and whispers words of truth:
That I am not the master of your youth
And was not called to bend you to my will.

©1999 Susan Noyes Anderson, Awaken Your Spiritual Power, Karisma Press

Image by Eugene Garin

A boat is life, a vessel in the gale
Tossed by the wind and driven through the night;
A hapless cutter, searching for the light
That used to dance and shimmer on a sail
Once bright and proud, bedraggled now, and pale.

©1993 Susan Noyes Anderson, Standard (poem only)

A ship fades from our view; we wave good-bye.
Her sails grow small, then vanish from the sky.
And sorrowing, we bow our heads, and then
we mourn that sight we long to see again.

©1993 Susan Noyes Anderson, Star Light, Star Books, Inc.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905)

They came to do Him honor,
weary-faced, and
stonily,
their footsteps traced
the path
to where He lay.

©1999 Susan Noyes Anderson and Nikki Noyes Blake,
Awaken Your Spiritual Power, Karisma Press

High on the mountain’s rocky crest,
an eagle soars to make its nest––
surrounded by nature’s majesty,
riding the wind so strong and free.

©1999 Susan Noyes Anderson, Awaken Your Spiritual Power, Karisma Press

Leather, binding
onion skin
paper, fragile,
wafer~thin.