Poetry
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The Whole Nine Yards Episode 254With Roy StannardOn Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FMSunday 7th December 2025 3-5pmwww.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen The Songs of Billy Blake William Blake’s life and work have moved many artists, musicians in particular. His influence has crossed genres: classical, punk, and folk musicians have walked through his doors of perception. He wrote ‘Jerusalem’, ‘Tyger, Tyger’ Read more
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Don’t Touch Me We passed in a flurry of passion. Your eyes said contact me. Don’t touch me. Others were flimsy ghosts haunting themselves. We were real, but didn’t believe in ourselves. The longer we looked, the less we saw. The less we saw, the more we doubted. The passers-by passed us by The hangers-on Read more
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The Whole Nine Yards Episode 210 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 2nd February 2025 3-5pm http://www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen Midnight Mothers / Ebony Fathers The black experience, at times harrowing, has nevertheless produced some magnificent music, poetry and art. On the show this week we feature over 20 powerful tracks that span genres and Read more
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The Whole Nine Yards Episode 208 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 19th January 2025 3-5pm http://www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen Words and Music Poetry offers great building blocks for songwriters due to its creative language, emotions, and imagery. Poems have a natural rhythm and flow that can easily translate into the structure of a song. Read more
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The Whole Nine Yards Episode 206 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 5th January 2025 3-5pm http://www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen Forever Some tracks are timeless – and some are somehow plucked from the ether and will live for much longer than us. Everlasting songs and forever lyrics. Hour One Amber Pacific – Forever (Virtues 2010) Read more
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https://www.mixcloud.com/roystannard/the-whole-nine-yards-ep-155-14124-sky-high-with-roy-stannard-on-mid-sussex-radio-1038fm/ The Whole Nine Yards Episode 155 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 14th January 2024 3-5pm http://www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen Sky High Sky high or Sky fall? The sky can prompt a wide range of feelings and moods. The brilliance of a clear day – to the sombre tones of an overcast one, is Read more
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A friendship that is never tested Because there is no cross examination. Where the beginning Is also the end. Always, my friend. Read more
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..the grand pursuit of the heart of La Grande Bellaza in the cradle of civilisation like turning out of an alley and finding light in the piazza.. Read more
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The End and the Beginning Because others had named the day We can plot the moment When first in a church and then in the barn of an after bouquet of a wedding you caught a glimpse of the future in each other deftly like a slipping shadow at first then ripening boldly Read more
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Who is like God? Love was the father and love the mother. You arrived in December, anticipating another Christmas A reward in yourself rather than a present A pilgrimage more than a journey Because we cannot find love in ourselves Only with another And you were the purest love The world of love in Read more
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