Lifelong
©2012 Susan Noyes Anderson
Artwork by Ruth Trobe
It’s harder now to tell where your part ends.
Or where my part begins, as time goes on.
I only know that when I speak of friends,
I always name you first. You are lifelong.
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.
The Word Nymph Talks
on Water
©2012 Susan Noyes Anderson
art by Jason deCaires Taylor
Even turned to stone,
I can’t stop talking.
Water-logged (and -lunged)
I burble on, blow
bubbles with my words
and watch them rising…
Resolution, Schmezolution
©2011 Susan Noyes Anderson
Resolution! Schmezolution!
This year, I’m resolved
to make no resolutions
because failure is involved.
Christmas Past: The Afterglow
©2012 Susan Noyes Anderson
Photo by freestocks on Unsplash
One melancholy sight to see:
a brittle, barren Christmas tree.
The lights that twinkled are no more,
pine needles lie upon the floor,
The Sandman Strikes Again!
©2011 Susan Noyes Anderson
Up the stairs with golden dust
the sandman softly sweeps.
On Judgment Day
©2011 Susan Noyes Anderson
The day I stand before the bar,
I hope to find in me
the person my beloved Savior
knows that I can be.
Divine Nature
©2011 Susan Noyes Anderson (poem only)
Photo by Lars Kuczynski on Unsplash
Proof of divinity is all around.
God’s handiwork transcends His mystery.
We hear His voice in every sacred sound:
the trill of birds, the pounding of the sea.
Grateful, We Gather
©2011 Susan Noyes Anderson (Image by Norman Rockwell)
We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing,
for richly He’s blessed us, in years now gone by.
The warmth of our hearth and the love of our family
are more than good fortune; they’re gifts from on high.