©2020 Susan Noyes Anderson

Sculpture: Melancolie, by Albert Gyorgy

A new level of missing you
has settled on my heart.
Year two, and I am still undone
by living life apart.

©2019 Susan Noyes Anderson

The wonder of Christmas has always been mine.
It was given to me as a child.
Mother told me the tale of that first holy night,
and Christ’s light filled her eyes as she smiled.

©2020 Susan Noyes Anderson

Another year has come and gone…
another decade, too.
The message is that life goes on,
no matter what we do.

©2019 Susan Noyes Anderson

I stood beside your grave one day,
not too long ago.
It was an extra visit, for
my heart was feeling low.

©2019 Susan Noyes Anderson

I dreamed that I could carry you,
but now I realize
my pocket had a hole in it,
just about your size.

©2010 Susan Noyes Anderson

Little bits of heaven swirl around the manger bright,
falling softly as the mem’ry of that Christmas night
when all the world stood still in wonder at the Savior’s birth,
and choirs of angels sang out joy and peace to men on earth.

©2019 Susan Noyes Anderson

Image by Brian Kershisnik

Life brings challenges and joys.
Our path to progress was foretold.
We chose the bitter with the sweet
and vowed to step out brave and bold.

©2019 Susan Noyes Anderson

The ocean, so constant and steady,
swells in silence to fall with a roar.
Seaweed circles around in the eddy,
gets caught up or breaks free for the shore.