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Moment There was a New York moment An ice-splinter in a sheet of sunlight When without the aid of smart devices Using dumb mind trails and heartstrings We managed to connect Like two sparrowhawks circling the Downs Two wayfaring strangers caught in eye contact A brother and a sister separated at the orphanage The… Read more
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@petefij thanks 4 Homeboy – Terry and I did some stuff Brighton Festival FM project back in 1996. doing a weekly show on http://www.seahavenfm.com Read more
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No longer see straw men But the beauty of lovers Making hay while the sun shines. Read more
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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 12,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 20 years to get… Read more
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https://soundcloud.com/roystannard/roy-stannard-winter Recorded live on Roy Stannard’s ‘The Whole Nine Yards’ – my weekly radio show on Seahaven FM 96.3 and online at www.seahavenfm.com on Thursday 6th December 2013 this is a poem about Winter inspired by the South Downs just north of Newhaven at Rodmell and Piddinghoe close to where I work. The music bed… Read more
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Forgiveness You are barely sketched, like a catching shutter A hesitant boy, a man bud Afraid to blossom, huddled in front of the man you became Pre-lined face, milky and indistinct like moon mist Framed for future crimes In pre-figured recognition, the prequel to me, a déjà view Seeing what was to become of you… Read more
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The End of Failing The Winter tide nibbles at a toe-dipped shoreline, Above, the lowering sky grumbles at the lack of light smudging a moleskin horizon. A couple embroider loose stitches along the waveline emerging like creation from the waters half-way between the depths and the heights, not quite fact or fiction holding hands,… Read more
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The Beatles, ELO, Jamiroquai, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Alan Parsons, Tom Baxter – they’ve all written inspiring songs about the sky. In our cloudy, overcast lives we need to explore beautiful blue skies and optimistic horizons. A whole show in two one hour instalments about skies and hope. A radio podcast from a live show… Read more
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‘Sunshine Follows You’ – A new soul classic written and performed by Terry Carvey, produced by Owen Vyse. Who is going to make this a hit? Read more
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Christmas is a time the distance that separates people who love one another should magically be made to disappear. There are songs that deal with this theme, but none that really connected with me, so I wrote some lyrics. ‘The Other Half of my Heart’ is the result. My good friend Nigel Black suggested I… Read more
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