No Go with the Flow

No Go with the Flow

©2016 Susan Noyes Anderson

Sometimes I curl my toes

against the tide.

Immovable, I catch

a swell of pride

and ride it nowhere.

Only I hold sway.

No force of nature 

spirits me away.

A pity that I'm stuck

in shifting sand,

somewhere between
cool water

and
dry land.

This week's motif was acceptance.

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On Hiatus

On Hiatus

©2016 Susan Noyes Anderson

I'm on hiatus from my life

but not by choice.

Don't get me wrong, as my kids' mom,

I have a voice.

And yet autonomy for mommies

comes with strings attached.

I'd drop the sun on a dead run

for anyone I've hatched.

So I am off on an adventure

I would rather miss.

"Have child will travel" is my motto.

Service is my bliss.

But could there be more happy reasons?

We are overdue.

Enough of flash floods, fires, and famine.

Let's try something new!

For Poets United, theme of "absence."