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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.
Faith Lost
©2015 Susan Noyes Anderson
image by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash
Faith lost is like a promise broken
somewhere in the night.
Unanswered pleas in words unspoken
push away the light.
The Path of Discipleship
©2015 Susan Noyes Anderson
written for Stake Women’s Conference
image by Kamille Corry at
churchofjesuschrist.org
Beyond the veil that binds the earth
lie memories we lost at birth,
rich memories of power and light
now hidden from our earthly sight.
Life Train-ing
©2015 Susan Noyes Anderson
Photo by Roland Lösslein on Unsplash
A new train chugging round the bend,
I wish I knew where it would end.
So much momentum, smoke and steel,
unstoppable from stack to wheel.
Don’t Speak Dutch to an Englishman
©2015 Susan Noyes Anderson
Don’t speak Dutch to an Englishman
to tell him how you feel.
Use words that he can understand
to show your love is real.
Easter: The Spring of Hope
©2015 Susan Noyes Anderson
Photo by Andrew Alexander on Unsplash
Come, celebrate the joys of spring,
bright days of reawakening,
when spirits rise from winter long
to soar on wings of sweet birdsong.
Easter: The Gift of Christ
©2015 Susan Noyes Anderson
Image by Heinrich Hofmann
When all about me seems to dim
and colors change to muted gray,
I turn my mind and heart to Him
who carries worldly woes away.
Do Not Speak a Word
©2015 Susan Noyes Anderson
Photo by Kristina Flour on Unsplash
Do not speak a word; I tell you.
Utter not one word.
These days your every phrase strikes me
as patently absurd.