Why Can’t We Just Get Along?
©2012 Susan Noyes Anderson
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash
Why can’t we just get along?
Can’t our friendship still be strong
even when we disagree?
Why ya gotta wail on me?
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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.
taking up arms
©2012 Susan Noyes Anderson
Verdun, by Felix Vallotton
then and now, war is the same
guts and glory, brawn and blame
rage, remorse, and alibis
searing truth and crushing lies
June Wedding
©2012 Susan Noyes Anderson
“Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November.”
This I muttered to myself,
pulling pamphlets off the shelf.
in the breach
©2012 Susan Noyes Anderson
Image: Venus and the Sailor by Salvador Dali
call me from the sea to meet you
in the breach of dawn and dusk
shapes and angles flow to greet you
midnight masses, morning musk
The Sage Speaks
©2012 Susan Noyes Anderson (poem only)
You hold forth in your wisdom
as if truth began with you,
each argument refuted by
your “worthy” point of view.
The Philanthropist
©2012 Susan Noyes Anderson (poem only)
Unflinching resolution is
a phrase that always conjures you.
Your war cry is “Snap out of it.”
And “Seize the day” is your world view.
Taking Leave
©2012 Susan Noyes Anderson (poem only)
How beautifully leaves grow old.
In glory, they slip away.
Farewell the King of Spoons
©2012 Susan Noyes Anderson
Image: It Must Be Time For Lunch Now by Francesca Woodman
It must be time for lunch now,
but I think I’ll take a pass.
It seems the king of spoons just tried
to knock me on my ass.