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    One Clear Voice: A Journey in Poetry
    One Clear Voice: A Journey in Poetry
    One Clear Voice: A Journey in Poetry
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    One Clear Voice: A Journey in Poetry

    By Susan Richard

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    From The Prayer At The Coffee Shop, to This New Day, take a journey in poetry as one woman works to hear that One Clear Voice within on a quest to accept the ... gutsy when green, potent, and rarely passive person she was meant to be.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateJan 20, 2005
    ISBN9781469119069
    One Clear Voice: A Journey in Poetry
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    Susan Richard

    Susan Richard has been a radio personality in the New York metropolitan area since 1986, and is currently heard on 1010 WINS. As an actor, Susan has appeared in New York productions of Pierre and Marie, How To Go Out On A Date In Queens, Earth And Sky, And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little, and Super Eros among others. Susan writes because theres something satisfying about not only finding the right words, but speaking them, clearly.

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      One Clear Voice - Susan Richard

      morning

      The Prayer At The Coffee Shop

      Dear God

      I welcome the opportunity

      to understand more fully

      who I am, and

      I promise to work

      to embrace the possibility

      of who I might yet

      become.

      I accept your challenges

      your guidance and

      your lessons. I ask

      only for the courage

      to trust in You

      and the strength

      to receive your gifts

      with dignity

      and love.

      Amen.

      Breakfast

      I knew I had made a pact with you

      that day at the coffee shop

      when I sat there eating my toasted bagel

      no butter just jelly

      strawberry if you have it, please,

      and I vowed to thank you

      no matter what. With dignity

      and love, I promised, eyes open wide

      in graceful surrender to our plan.

      I say our plan, because even with you

      I would be sure not to, once again,

      lose myself completely in

      the arms of a man.

      I have decided that you are male

      because for some reason

      it’s what I need right now.

      And while I prefer to let

      the earth mother me from below

      there is something delightfully

      sensual, satisfying—some ‘s’ word

      about you coming from above

      looking down in knowing affection;

      a look that’s sure enough

      to quiet my thoughts, yet

      secret enough to shake me up.

      Over coffee I promised to trust you

      and you promised the truth.

      I said I would be brave and

      you swore that I would know.

      We kissed softly on a deliberate Amen

      and then I paid the check,

      the first of my dues, I suppose,

      with a generous tip too,

      a full belly, a steadied pen,

      a brand new pair of walking shoes,

      and the green light for

      go.

      The Moon

      I kept looking out the window

      my neck twisting until I had to stop from pain

      not wanting to leave it

      I was hooked on this thing

      huge and round, white and glowing

      like a gigantic alien eyeball

      imperfect with its rough curves

      but good enough for me

      a metaphor for something in my life,

      no doubt.

      It was closer than usual

      and I felt like a small bird

      peering from the nest

      curious, but not yet ready to fly the coup

      as the jet engines hummed

      and I became very aware

      of the risk of flight. I realized

      how things seem so over there

      sometimes

      across the street

      with a nasty traffic jam in between

      as I wait on my side of the road

      in real indecision

      glimpsing whatever might be in my thoughts:

      Prince Charming

      thunderous applause

      a moment of inner quiet

      or the yelp of a perfect newborn.

      I stared and stared trying

      to pull something out of it

      suck life from this big dead ball

      just hanging in space

      rising the tide

      and moving in sync with me

      —I am like the moon!

      What a pompous thought, I think, and

      although sometimes I want to

      give it back

      this time I found myself wanting

      to take it in—

      Let me out of this plane!

      Fly me to the moon and let me

      sail among the stars!

      An old song, but

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