©2010 Susan Noyes Anderson (poem only)

life has a rhythm all its own
it bends and dips and flows
it moves through channels
swirls in eddies
goes and stops and goes

©2010 Susan Noyes Anderson (poem only)

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Americans are different
as Americans can be.
We hail from north, south, east and west…
from sea to shining sea.

©2010 Susan Noyes Anderson

our roots run
together
trunk to trunk
we rise up
bark on bark
we grow

©1999 Susan Noyes Anderson (poem only)

 The gift is given. Will we make a space
within the cluttered circles of our lives?
As mothers, daughters, sisters, friends and wives,
will we lay hold or run an endless race?

 ©2010 Susan Noyes Anderson

Gethsemane brought Jesus to His knees.
“Remove this cup from me,” He dared to ask.
His humble prayer, “Thy will, not mine, be done,”
allowed no respite from the fearsome task.

©2010 Susan Noyes Anderson

How bless’d are we by all of God’s creation!
What miracles attend His outstretched hand!
Adoring is our gaze across the mountains,
Appreciative, our feet upon the land.

©2010 Susan Noyes Anderson

If life is art, brush all my days
in colors of the sea.
The symphonies of gull and wave
lull cares away from me.

©2009 Susan Noyes Anderson

When wintry winds and stormy seas
Make all the world seem bleak,
When hope is difficult to find
And peace is hard to seek,