Rise and Shine – Not! (for teens)
©1997 Susan Noyes Anderson, At The End of Your Rope, There’s Hope, Deseret Book
Don’t wake me up.
Don’t pound my door.
I need more sleep.
I need much more.
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.
Natural Disaster
©1981 by Susan Noyes Anderson
The house was resting on a slant
(perhaps a cracked foundation).
Inside a scene of chaos
and total devastation.
Why Me?
©1992 Susan Noyes Anderson
Of all the people
in the world
millions of guys
zillions of girls
of all the animals
there are
from Timbuktu
to Zanzibar
Dieter’s Lament
©1992, by Susan Noyes Anderson, Infinity Limited
They tell me
that I’m getting
thinner.
“Dwindling away to
nothing”
was the phrase.
Mid-Life Muddle
©1996 Susan Noyes Anderson, Age Happens, Meadowbrook Press
When we were young, you made me blush,
go hot and cold and turn to mush.
I still feel all these things, it’s true…
but is it menopause, or you?
A Note to My Irreverent Children
©2008 Susan Noyes Anderson
Count me as old as the mountains.
Count me as old as the trees.
But promise me you won’t start counting
rings around my knees!
Positive Affirmations
©1999 by Susan Noyes Anderson, Awaken Your Spiritual Power, Karisma Press
I’m good and kind and loyal,
except for when I’m not.
I’m friendly, and I’m willing,
if you don’t expect a lot.
“If” – For Parents of Teenagers
©1997 Susan Noyes Anderson, At The End of Your Rope, There’s Hope, Deseret Book
(written with a fond bow to Rudyard Kipling)
If you can keep your head and not lose favor,
When adolescence makes its grand debut;
If you can trust yourself to never waiver,
And always keep an optimistic view;