La Luchadora
©2016 Susan Noyes Anderson
image by Ed Ross
Her hair is dressed in roses;
a waved trellis,
verdant and visceral,
rooted in animus
(head-as-hostile-soil).
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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.
Hope Lost, Hope Found
©2016 Susan Noyes Anderson
image by Patrick Schneider on Unsplash
The heavy desert heat
assaulted her,
shut down her cool,
absorbed her essence,
stole from her the
right to breathe.
The Love Note
©2016 Susan Noyes Anderson
image by Tyler Nix on Unsplash
She loves him with a love profound,
but not that well-expressed.
The sweetness sings inside her heart
but rarely leaves her chest.
Checkmate: The Nemesis
©2016 Susan Noyes Anderson
image by Rick J. Brown on Unsplash
Your every move is cagey, I suspect;
and thus I am a trifle circumspect
in interactions co-opted by you.
Rise Up
©2016 Susan Noyes Anderson
image by Kyle Broad on Unsplash
“You’re the worst decision I ever made,”
he said. It nearly knocked her dead.
She’d given him her heart so long ago.
She didn’t know how much that gift would cost:
she lost herself. She wasn’t faultless…
Love Is Patient; Love Is Kind
©2016 Susan Noyes Anderson
image by Jonathan Meyer on Unsplash
When wells of love in me run dry,
and I no longer see
the cup of living water
kindness offers up to me,
What Greater Love Than This?
©2016 Susan Noyes Anderson
image by Myriam Zilles on Unsplash
image by Myriam Zilles on UnsplashIn ancient times Christ walked upon the earth
as Son of God, a man of flesh and bone.
Some loved Him from the moment of His birth.
Some came to love Him after He was grown.
The Mountains Are Calling
©2016 Susan Noyes Anderson
“Autumn’s Harmony” by Rachel Pettit
Take me to the mountain crest
along a winding trail.
Let the sweet air fill my chest;
lift me like a sail.