Sample Poems with Illustrations

Freedom of the Heart

A distant call to freedom sounds
From land as far away
As America across an ocean
Atlantic cold and gray,
Is not the soul just as far?
And the voyage just as hard?
An inward ocean sailed across
To freedom of the heart

Frozen People

Half of life we live in winter,
Frozen people, frozen people.
From a deep and dark October gray
Into March and freezing rain,
Half of life we live in winter

A third of life we silently sleep,
Quiet and deep, quiet and deep.
Half that time we’re bundled under
Winter blankets completely covered,
A third of life we silently sleep

All of life we pass away,
Day to night, night to day.
For even in the waking summer
Drifts of winter sleep forever,
All of life we pass away