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The Why Poem

©2020 Susan Noyes Anderson image by Patrick Perkins on Unsplash This is the why poem, The why-did-you-die poem, The why-did-you-have-to-be- stuck-in-the-eye poem, The why-were-you-never- made-well-only-worse, The were-you-unlucky- or-was-it-a-curse, The you-deserved-better- but-you-didn’t-get-it, The you-were-a-target- and-I-can’t-forget it, The why-were-you-given- such-gifts-and-then-tied- by-the-burdens-and-sorrows- you-carried-inside poem. I don’t expect answers. I do want relief. I’m […]

A Slice of Joy

©2019 Susan Noyes Anderson Waldemar Brandt on Unsplash I stood beside your grave one day, not too long ago. It was an extra visit, for my heart was feeling low. I always come on Wednesdays just to keep the granite clean, but I was drawn there three days sooner to […]

What Does It Mean?

[…]did not witness, nor His suffering that begged relief. My earthly gaze did not behold His painful death or joyful rise. All of his doings, large and small, were unobserved by my own eyes. And so, what does it mean to me… Christ’s walk on earth, that brief foray? It […]

Redux

©2013 Susan Noyes Anderson Image: Resurrection Reunion 2 by Sir Stanley Spencer Death is a many-splendored thing; especially when it ends. The shroud is shed; the raised heart sings and everyone pretends that life is bound to be brand new the second time around, and all along they knew, just […]

Star Child

[…]Song. Star Child was written for a young family who recently lost a baby to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. In my experience,  there has been nothing more difficult than losing a child, and to lose one in this way is uniquely devastating. May this simple poem honor families of SIDS […]

That Guy

©2021 Susan Noyes Anderson image by Zeynap Emecikli on Unsplash I wasn’t blind to them; I saw your flaws. But greatness was the thing that held my eye. You were that guy, the one who makes moms proud. And so I was    and loud about it, too. Those eyes, […]

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