In this episode of A Voice Like This, Phil Rowe reads three powerful reflections on transience, legacy, and loss. Together, they explore the question: What truly endures when all else fades?

• “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost
• “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• “Dirge Without Music” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Whether it’s a season, a statue, or someone dearly loved, these poems hold a mirror to the ways we remember and the traces we leave behind.

📩 Got a favourite poem you’d like to hear? Let Phil know — listener requests are always welcome. Email avoicelikethis@gmail.com

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Sometimes, it’s not the moment itself—but what follows—that lingers the longest.

In the next episode of A Voice Like This, we reflect on change, memory, and the quiet traces we leave in the world around us. Three short but stirring poems guide us through the ache of farewell, the transience of pride, and the defiance of grief.

🎧 Listen Monday: Episode 10 – What We Leave Behind

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Two poems exploring the quiet refuge we carry within.

Featuring:

Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare – a listener request

The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W.B. Yeats

A reminder that love, stillness, and self-worth can be found not in far-off places, but deep within us.

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In this episode, Phil Rowe brings together two powerful poems that speak to the burden and beauty of being human.

One poem is beloved. The other, more quietly known.

One, fierce with instruction. The other, still with truth.

Together, they offer a reflection on how we carry ourselves through the world — and what we pass on.

Join Phil as he explores the unspoken tension between advice and acceptance, striving and surrender.

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Poems:

If by Rudyard Kipling

Shoulders by Naomi Shihab Nye

Performed by: Phil Rowe

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Until then, take care.

In this quietly resonant episode of A Voice Like This, Phil Rowe brings together two poems that speak to the art of paying attention — to ourselves, and to others.

First, Derek Walcott’s Love After Love offers a tender invitation to reconnect with the self we’ve lost sight of.

Then, Dylan Thomas’s In My Craft or Sullen Art reflects on the solitary work of the poet — creating not for recognition, but for love, for mystery, and for the unnamed listener.

Two quiet poems. Two enduring acts of care.

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Poems:

Love After Love by Derek Walcott

In My Craft or Sullen Art by Dylan Thomas

Themes:

Self-reclamation, poetic purpose, quiet persistence

Performed by: Phil Rowe

Subscribe to A Voice Like This for new episodes every Monday — and the occasional bonus journey into the world of verse.

I'm always happy to hear from listeners on avoicelikethis@gmail.com

In this quietly resonant episode of A Voice Like This, Phil Rowe brings together two poems that speak to the art of paying attention — to ourselves, and to others.

First, Derek Walcott’s Love After Love offers a tender invitation to reconnect with the self we’ve lost sight of.

Then, Dylan Thomas’s In My Craft or Sullen Art reflects on the solitary work of the poet — creating not for recognition, but for love, for mystery, and for the unnamed listener.

Two quiet poems. Two enduring acts of care.

This week, two very different worlds unfold.

Wendell Berry offers stillness — a moment away from the noise, where the natural world holds us gently.

Then Yeats pulls us back into chaos — his apocalyptic vision of a world unravelled, where the centre cannot hold.

New episodes every Monday, each just a few minutes — just the poems, spoken with care.

Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get

your podcasts.

If a line lingers, share it — or let me know on avoicelikethis@gmail.com

Next week on A Voice Like This, we start with stillness… and end in something else entirely.

New episodes every Monday, each just a few minutes long, just the poems, and a little time to chill.

Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.