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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.

Mid-Life Muddle

Written by Susan Noyes Anderson on July 2, 2009. Posted in Funny Poems, Love Poems

©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

Written by Susan Noyes Anderson on July 2, 2009. Posted in Funny Poems

©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

Written by Susan Noyes Anderson on July 2, 2009. Posted in Funny Poems

©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

Written by Susan Noyes Anderson on July 2, 2009. Posted in Family Relationship Poems, Funny Poems, Life Lessons Poems

©1997 Susan Noyes Anderson, At The End of Your Rope, There’s Hope, Deseret Book
(written with a fond bow to Rudyard Kipling)

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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;