Quiet Voices (With Poetry Read By Susie Sims Irvin)

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Poetry read by author Susie Sims Irvin, accompanied by subtle, soft ambient music.  Contains a loop of music titled "Out Of Harm's Way" by Elm Lake, via Epidemic Sound  The full interview with Susie Sims Irvin, from which this audio is taken, can be found here:  https://youtu.be/9aHobZJAAa4

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00:00Yes, the young people, well, it's why I did the book.

00:19I was coming from driving from giving a paper on poetry at the study club, and I was driving

00:28home and I turned on the radio to celebrate because the paper was over, and I wanted to

00:34hear music, and I heard instead the Columbine news of Columbine.

00:41So I rode up a little further and passed our schools, and I thought, I've got to do something

00:47to show these young people that we care.

00:50So at that time, a ray of sunshine lit on my poems in the seat beside me, and I said,

01:00that's it, that's the one thing an old lady can do for young people.

01:08This is the title poem, Quiet Voices.

01:14Quiet Voices clothe winter's jagged edge.

01:21Dove murmur secrets under velvet breath.

01:27Blurred hills stand still, frozen to woolen sky.

01:34To wait in line, outside in freezing rain.

01:40Black satin streams bathe themselves beneath down robes of snow.

01:48Above their flowing nakedness whispers of vapor rise to trace their sleek unwinding through

01:57muted browns of fields laid by.

02:02Night reads to himself from poets of starlight.

02:08Day gathers clouds for the table.

02:13Quiet voices need not speak for those who listen to hear peace.

02:23We get to a point and we think, this is where I'm supposed to be.

02:29And you feel good in that point, at that point.

02:35And you step out of the rat race and you say, close the door behind me.

02:44I want peace, I want to be here by myself where I belong.

02:50This is the floor.

02:52This is as high as I go.

02:55And it doesn't bother me.

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