Hope-Note to Self
©2024 Susan Noyes Anderson
Image by Aaron Burden on Unsplash
Hope was not meant
to lock in the result
that we hope for.
Hope is simply a force
to ease burdens and
light our way through.
Author Archive
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.
O Sacred Sea
©2024 Susan Noyes Anderson
image by Yoann Boyer on Unsplash
Life is a sea –
an ever-changing flow,
awash in sights and sounds
we come to know,
our spirits free.
Brokenness Heals
©2024 Susan Noyes Anderson
image from churchofjesuschrist.org
Brokenness heals –
cracks wide our throbbing doors –
lets go, lets God,
lets out the flood that pours
from swollen skies.
On Age and Ending Well
©2024 Susan Noyes Anderson
image by getty-images-0lRNBczbOxA-unsplash
used by permission of Unsplash+
My self-portrait, if made today,
would be on paper, not in clay.
An abstract, puzzling my eyes
in shapes I strain to recognize.
Reaching Out, Reaching Up
©2018 Susan Noyes Anderson
Image by Chris Beloch from Unsplash
The week before Christmas, I wait at the post office,
mailing one last, precious thing.
The line isn’t quite out the door, but it’s close,
and our holiday mood’s taken wing.
It’s Up to Me
©2024 Susan Noyes Anderson
image by Unsplash+ in collaboration with Getty Images
It’s up to me to live my days
in sunlit hues or shady haze.
Though circumstance vies for control,
I chart the weather in my soul.
Boxed Away
©2024 Susan Noyes Anderson
image by Faruk Tokluoglu on Unsplash
It pains my heart to put the stuff
of childhood away.
Is there a thing more sad, more bittersweet
than moving day?
All Good Things
©2024 Susan Noyes Anderson
image by Joshua Earle on Unsplash
Six years without you, my mind’s eye
settles upon your vacant place.
It’s harder now to summon sights of you
to fill the empty space.