Poetry with a Deeper Meaning

These are poems and songs that have hidden depths to them. Some are fairly straightforward to understand, others take a little thought and the rest are just patriotic. They are suitable for both adults and children.

Read these and search your soul.

The Blank Page

A Child On Loan

Children Learn What They Live

Coloured

Desiderata

Do Not Stand Beside My Grave And Weep

Help Me Grow

I Believe

The Marriage Garden

 Mr. Nobody

Some Things I Know

What Do Angels Look Like

When I Must Leave You

Wise Old Owl

A Bright Future by Andrew Dawson

A Green Prayer by Jane Whittle

Alabama by Khe-Tha-A-Hi (Eagle Wing)

The Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe

Beginnings by Judith Nicholls

Break Time by Kate Williams

The Caged Bird by Veronica Bennetts

Change Yourself by James Kirkup

Childhood by Frances Cornford

Divorce by Jackie Kay

The Duck And The Moon by Leo Tolstoy

Everybody by John Mole

Four Little Tigers by Frank Jacobs

God Save The King by Henry Carey

Home by Margaret Fishback Powers

How Can One Sell The Air by Chief Seattle

If by Rudyard Kipling

I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King

The Legend Of The Panda by Anthony Stuart

The Little Black Boy by William Blake

The Little Boy And The Old Man by Shel Silverstein

The Mole And The Eagle by Sarah Josepha Hale

The Mouse And The Cake by Eliza Cook

Name Calling by Charles Thomson

Patterned Ways by Jo Hilton

Playgrounds by Berlie Doherty

The Seed by Aileen Fisher

Teddy, I've Been Bad Again by Cindy Pike Dunning

Truth by Roger McGough

Urgent Note To My Parents by Hihawyn Oram

What Do You See by Phyllis McCormack

The Whisper by John Mole

Ye Weary Wayfarer by Adam Lindsay Gordon