Standing Sure
©2025 Susan Noyes Anderson
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My roots are planted,
but they’re running fallow,
too shallow for the work
I need to do.
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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.
Life Hurts. Love Heals.
©2025 Susan Noyes Anderson
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Life hurts. Love heals.
God allows us all the feels.
Hardship rains down on our hearts –
clouds our vision, stops our starts.
Walking with Jesus
©2025 Susan Noyes Anderson
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2025 is here, the new year
looking less than bright.
A dark path looms before my eyes;
my heart is longing for more light.
Power to the Patient!
©2024 Susan Noyes Anderson
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Courage comes more easily,
when you still have a choice.
How can you show up brave if
you don’t even have a voice?
Lambs to the Slaughter
©2024 Susan Noyes Anderson
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Is everyone here filled with dread,
or am I the exception?
These people seem too tranquil for
Oncology reception.
Thoughts from a Seeking Soul
©2024 Susan Noyes Anderson
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I woke up with one thought today,
one bracing bit of spirit wealth:
In life, there is no gift more sweet
than the freedom to be yourself.
Follicle Fallout
©2024 Susan Noyes Anderson
My hair is falling down like rain –
disaster in the making.
These wisps and tendrils, once admired,
are borderline law-breaking.
The House of Me (Edited)
©2024 Susan Noyes Anderson
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We build ourselves just like a house
in this sojourn on earth.
Creatively, we’ve got the skills –
a blessing of our birth.
I’m doing some restructuring
I thought I’d done already.
And yet this house, however loved,
is holding less than steady.