Standing Sure
©2025 Susan Noyes Anderson
image by Terry Tan de Hao on Unsplash
My roots are planted,
but they’re running fallow,
too shallow for the work
I need to do.
Spiritual Poems
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The House of Me (Edited)
©2024 Susan Noyes Anderson
image by Scott Webb on Unsplash
We build ourselves just like a house
in this sojourn on earth.
Creatively, we’ve got the skills –
a blessing of our birth.
I’m doing some restructuring
I thought I’d done already.
And yet this house, however loved,
is holding less than steady.
Cancer Drains, Love Remains
©2024 Susan Noyes Anderson
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A quiet room, a sterile room,
cold womb for the unwilling.
I sat there feeling quite alone,
my cup of sorrow filling.
On Cairns and Aiming High
©2024 Susan Noyes Anderson
Image by Markus Spiske on Unsplash
I’m attracted to cairns, and
I think I know why.
I do love a good rock, and these
point toward the sky.
The foundation is solid, a
wide, flat, smooth stone –
placed and chosen with care
to bear weight on its own.
on darkness and rainbows
©2024 susan noyes anderson
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woke up this morning
clothed in gray
world dressed down
to shade my way
Camino de Santiago: The Way Home
©2017 Susan Noyes Anderson, reworked in 2024
In days of yore, the pilgrims walked The Way
to show their piety, their love of God.
They took their sins and burdens, seeking grace,
renewing faith on every path they trod.
When Stars Align
©2021 Susan Noyes Anderson
Image by Casey Horner
I’m well aware that you’re not here,
a little too aware, I fear;
and yet, neither are you quite gone,
despite the truth that you’ve passed on.
The Humbling
©2021 Susan Noyes Anderson
image by Anatol Lem on Unsplash
image by Anatol Lem on UnsplashThe sun fell out of the sky one day.
I propped her up on a flow of words.
She hung in a rather precarious way,
fluttered about like a wind-tossed bird.