Poetry
613 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 days ago -I have been scratching scribe to script and burning tallow onto table in order to bring you a fabulously free A to Z of poetry.
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CIDER PARK
April 01, 2023 14:19 - 1 minute - 1.63 MBLooking at some tramps in cider park i feel sorry for the poor starving pets as their masters swill down cider and they shiver in the cold , the musing is seen and spoken through the eyes of the dog . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
ENVY
April 01, 2023 10:18 - 54 seconds - 876 KBA poem written about that green eyed monster of sin the secret schadenfreude that we all keep hidden away within , usually it's only seen in young children as they rival for survival craving their parents attention a lowly leftover from our anthropological ascension , however this instinct can also be witnessed later in our lives when the males begins to assert their dominance at the procreation stage of life . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-ric...
NAME AND SHAME
April 01, 2023 09:20 - 4 minutes - 4.3 MBA musing about giving your offspring a strong sounding name something that will inspire an aspire them towards fortune and fame . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
THE GOD FATHER
March 31, 2023 16:30 - 1 minute - 1.71 MBA poem about a mafia boss who was born in Le panier de Marseille the last bastion of Beelzebub who then rose to become France's ultimate crime Capo Di Capo lasting fifty years before being gunned down in Paris for an old corsican vendetta . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
LADYKILLER
March 31, 2023 14:40 - 1 minute - 1.78 MBA poem for a dear friend of mine who's charismatic appeal with women is so legendary that it led to him receiving a pseudonym of The Valley Drive Lady Killer even whilst laid on the surgeons slab awaiting a serious operation he was still able to twirl the attention of a young nurse who was at the time wet shaving him of all body hair ready for his open heart surgery. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
GABRIEL
March 31, 2023 13:37 - 1 minute - 1.17 MBJanine used to be a traveller with wings on her feet then Gabriel gifted her a baby daughter to drink from her teat she named her after his immortal horn the beautiful Lily now plays at her feet. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
TITANIC
March 31, 2023 08:47 - 3 minutes - 2.96 MBBeing at sea aboard huge luxury vessels is very glamorous and as a skipper come captain it is so easy to be wined and dined each evening by billionaires with the finest foods and drink the only drawback is that you steadily become an old soak, I worked alongside many captains who became just that, thinking back to a collision at night with JJ the skipper and a refugee boat he had got drunk with a stewardess and gone to bed leaving the vessel on autopilot the similarities to Titanic are on a m...
STARGATE
March 31, 2023 05:38 - 1 minute - 1.84 MBA musing about the Star Trek scientists who make our intergalactic fate sound like a subway ride through a station Stargate . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
WAR
March 30, 2023 20:36 - 1 minute - 1.78 MBA short sketch written about a Christmas bash spent with my old deaf and dementia ridden relatives , trying to talk in between cooking programs and war movies choosing TV channels can become very exasperating. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
WATERLOO
March 30, 2023 19:17 - 2 minutes - 2.58 MBA poem about falling into destitution especially ex soldiers and sailors who you find in the beggars brigade of most British towns and how easy it is , "lest we forget " that we are all in their debt. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
TEN CIGARETTES TILL DAWN
March 30, 2023 18:20 - 1 minute - 1.39 MBShe read mien kampt and the marquis de sade a sexual psychopath who fell asleep leather clad. A blood letting Banshee of tormenting and torture That gave no clemency or quarter ; She had an iQ of above one hundred and twenty two a dipsomaniac who'd tremble you to with DTS and night sweat you to a cold freeze. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
SACRED RAIN
March 30, 2023 14:12 - 59 seconds - 953 KBA poem about the rain cycle's continual celestial cleansing this perpetual purification of precipitation shows no discrimination of skin treating us all to the same asperging sanctification from sin . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
THE WOKING TO WATERLOO
March 30, 2023 09:46 - 1 minute - 1.57 MBRiding aboard the busiest train in Britain the 7.32 woking to Waterloo a hundred million passengers a year pass through Waterloo which makes for some terrifying or tantalising flesh to flesh points of view . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
KARMA
March 30, 2023 06:31 - 2 minutes - 1.99 MBOur green karma Queen casts her svelt shadow over we obstinate boulder brained beasts lighting an alternative pathway towards her spiritual sentient sanctuary . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
DIY
March 29, 2023 20:14 - 2 minutes - 2.14 MBBuying power tools at the hardware store? you truly may as well arm yourself with a weapon of war and become yet another one of the do it yourself casualty score , around the world figures run into the hundreds of thousands the body counts are much higher than in most actual modern theatres of war . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
LOVE LETTERS
March 29, 2023 19:20 - 2 minutes - 2.16 MBHidden in her silver box were those secret letters of love from a dead lover who in a moment of war when passion was the fashion and she fed hers red and raw to his hungry dog of amour . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
SOUL CATCHER
March 29, 2023 18:22 - 1 minute - 1.5 MBSimilar to the Eskimo fishing through a cut in the ice one could easily imagine a soul catcher waiting patiently at the edge of a black hole in space in order to capture the very essence of life then freeze drying us as fish in the absolute zero of infinity we'd be ready for a renucleation or reincarnation and what better freeze dry facility than the perfectly vacuumed packaging plant of infinity . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
A LOVE AFFAIR
March 29, 2023 16:39 - 1 minute - 1.81 MBA poem I wrote about the sixty three year love affair between a member of the royal family and one her dutiful long standing servants known as G M for short the old Queen mums cool companion. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
SPITTLE AND SPUME
March 29, 2023 13:12 - 2 minutes - 2.45 MBListening to the climate conference's waffling old windbags wheezing on about saving our world as they quaff down expensive wine squandering fifty pounds a glass and then dare to set the price of carbon capture at three pounds a ton , this be the token tariff to save your granddaughter or grandson ?. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
REDEMPTION
March 29, 2023 12:02 - 1 minute - 1.84 MBTo port a vicarious redemption on behalf of someone else is a burdensome weight the preachers daughter still carries hers each moment of the day a beautiful quiet soul who was given the substitution of sin by her callous caretaker , her atonement isn't due any time soon . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
FOXY FISHER
March 29, 2023 10:51 - 1 minute - 1.61 MBA short poem for Todd's forth birthday his name means the fox although the only thing I've seen him foraging for are lollipops from the ice box. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
KISS OF DEATH
March 29, 2023 07:41 - 50 seconds - 785 KBA poem come prayer for a child who never got the chance to live who never knew their love to give, if I could swap the soul of this old spive and just for one day let you live then I would gladly God forgive and trade my old soul for the life of that new born foul. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
GUY FAWKES
March 28, 2023 20:22 - 3 minutes - 2.94 MBTreachery and treason never go out of season the gunpowder plot was the spy master's crowning piece of glory he'd managed to use the plot to catapult James the 1st from being a doomed king guaranteed to be assassinated into a national hero who united both Scotland and England into the union of Crowns a feat never before thought possible all by engineering a plot that was in its early stages and failing untill as an agent provocateur he coaxed it into a piece of political theatre using his med...
GEMINI
March 28, 2023 19:05 - 1 minute - 1.59 MBGrowing up in a witches coven with all of them casting spells over everything and everyone I couldn't understand the horoscope stars then or now , they were always fighting for the Sorceresse's supremacy . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
COLETTE
March 28, 2023 17:29 - 2 minutes - 2.72 MBThis is a short song I wrote for Colette's birthday she's an angel faced florist who works out of a norman church on a country estate, surrounded by angelic statues all halos and wings adding to this heavenly scene is her being bathed and baptized in the divine light from the stain glassed windows along with the scent from the flowers you think you've arrived at the garden of Eden, but then again when she puts on her leather and lace and hits the town well that's a different story , A Saturda...
SYLLABLE SWING
March 28, 2023 16:28 - 2 minutes - 2.69 MBWhen children acquire language it sings along like a simple melody then we come along with our lexicon lego box and spoil their tune. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
HANGMAN
March 28, 2023 10:27 - 1 minute - 1.84 MBWilliam marwood's long drop solution brought about a revolution in the British Empires approach for delivering a more humane method of execution . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
THE ARTIST
March 28, 2023 08:41 - 2 minutes - 1.9 MBA musing about an artist girlfriend from Barcelona Spain , I couldn't understand what she ment by being a spiritual suffragette , sacrificing love and life for her art , I thought her pompous and pretentious born by the silver spoon now after months of lockdown living as a mendicant monk in my own garrett cell of solitary confinement I'm beginning to understand her purgatory point of view . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
THE SOUL
March 28, 2023 07:02 - 1 minute - 1.78 MBThe ghost in our mortal machine is like a spiritual symbiotic twin that collaborative companion that shares our secular sin so silently from within accompanying us from a womb to the tomb an then ultimately giving evidence in our final doom . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
SILK PURSE SOW'S EAR
March 28, 2023 06:06 - 1 minute - 1.71 MBA musing about many of my friends and relative's who should never have entered into a relationship due to their personalities and persuasions being completely different, fortunately we now have the internet and super computers to marry our sexual selections together . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
SLOTH
March 27, 2023 13:20 - 2 minutes - 1.99 MBThe sloth is portrayed as the epitome of sin or laziness but this little arboreal adaption turns out to be the perfect green dream a hairy little leaf eating machine which has a zero carbon footprint and could save the world all on its own , we would do well to put a little of the sinful slow sloth back in our own fast food life styles in order to try and save our poor planet . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
LESBIAN MAN
March 27, 2023 06:26 - 1 minute - 1.61 MBA poem about an angry old man who was released from his angst after being administered oestrogen hormone therapy for a prostate cancer which freed up his feminine side he's a much happier person now that they've let loose his lesbian libido . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
PROFUMO
March 26, 2023 20:24 - 3 minutes - 3.33 MBIn the swinging sixties a sexpionage spy scandal took place called the Profumo Affaire unfortunately two of its players were amateurs and didn't know what the rules of their spy games were ; one was sacrificed as a scapegoat and the other Christine Keeler lived life under a long dark cloud until she died and all because they were enlisted by MI5 into taking part in a Russian honey trap for Queen and country which went dramatically wrong ; Dr Steven Ward a brilliant osteopath and gifted portra...
L S D
March 26, 2023 18:52 - 1 minute - 1.48 MBThe building blocks of life are made from nucleic acids , Lysergic acid has also been around since the dawn of time doubtless it would have been eaten by our early primate mammalian species increasing hallucinogenic and conscious brain capability hence where the homo sapiens may have got their jump start on the evolutionary ladder the human is now beginning to experiment with the capabilities of LSD administering it to elderly patients in order to awaken the parts the brain that had shut down...
RAGMAN ROCKEFELLER
March 26, 2023 17:45 - 1 minute - 1.67 MBA poem about an old rag and bone man who started out with just a horse and cart then after a life of skinflinting strife became very rich but even after acquiring great wealth he still retained his beggar man roots and rhetoric. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
ELVIS
March 26, 2023 16:15 - 3 minutes - 2.94 MBA poem for the king of rock and roll he was born into extreme poverty raised in a shotgun shack but managed not only to break out of but also to attack the musical apartheid of America he was one of the first to start singing the black man's blues , he went from busking as a bum on Beale Street to having the world worshipping at his feet . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
WOKING TO WATERLOO.
March 26, 2023 14:18 - 1 minute - 1.56 MBA short poem about riding aboard the busiest train in Europe the 7.32 Woking to Waterloo 100 million passengers a year pass through Waterloo which makes for some terrifying or tantalising flesh to flesh points of view . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
SUICIDE SNAILS.
March 26, 2023 13:24 - 1 minute - 1.39 MBA poem written about the suicidal tendencies of snails, they started out as jellyfish swimming gravity free in the wide open sea so you can understand why they may suffer from their suicidal tendency , slithering themselves under the feet of you and me , unfortunately for us as in the Buddhist belief , we may become their reincarnated relieve . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
VIRGIN DEATH
March 25, 2023 16:29 - 1 minute - 1.23 MBA musing about Lord Kitchener who's Sabre rattling speeches come sermons raised rampant applause back in Whitehall and Westminster whilst unfortunately his young Virgin soldiers were dying by 6000 a day , he had printed into their guide books for war , "avoid wine and women" meaning french prostitutes , with a life expectancy of 17 hours catching the pox would have been the least of their worries . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
VOODOO DAWN
March 24, 2023 22:22 - 2 minutes - 2.41 MBIf ever you should take a drink with a witch make sure you leave the very same night before the break of day or the dawn of light by which time you might just find yourself in a very unfortunate plight of being subjected to a JuJu cat's emasculation bite that leaves you as some sort of strangely sculptured hermaphrodite . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
HANGOVER
March 24, 2023 20:18 - 2 minutes - 2.14 MBA whale song dream turns out to be the huge squealing brake drums of a distant trash truck it's sound distorted by the wind gusting through gunnels and gantry's ; thrown dustbin lids cymbal into the sensetive sobriety of your very unwanted monday morning anxiety . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
GOD GOOGLE
March 24, 2023 07:28 - 41 seconds - 649 KBA little poem I wrote about our Neo Omnipresence that seems almost God like in its power and control , the all seeing eye that invisible entity watching over everything we say and do. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
FEMME FATALE
March 23, 2023 22:33 - 2 minutes - 2.2 MBHer swan song is what you hear just before your love boat runs aground and the scent of sulphur be the final pheromone you smell as you slowly begin to drowned . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
BLACK ROD
March 23, 2023 21:19 - 1 minute - 1.69 MBA birthday poem for NENO it's called Black Rod because for the first time in Britain's thousand year parliamentary history the position is now held by a women , this spiritual and temporal appointment of power is long overdue for a changing of the guard . The willow may look soft an gentle but inside lies her heart of oak . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
SIRI
March 23, 2023 19:42 - 1 minute - 1.48 MBWhen you turn on a virtual assistant such as Alexa , Siri or Cortana , for the first time even as an adult but especially as a child it feels like You've tuned into a God or Goddess of wisdom channel children of the future will almost certainly give up on any parental guidance and move into spacebook or a Walt Disney crack house . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
THE TRUTH
March 23, 2023 13:21 - 2 minutes - 2.37 MBThe human hunter gatherer brain is so very hard to truth train but maybe not if you start using the new silicon scopolamine dream and drip feed it daily with some digital dopamine served up from our omnipresent Turing machine. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
SHYLOCK
March 23, 2023 11:44 - 1 minute - 1.59 MBA person who's cranial capacity is cast by abject austerity remains of that mind set even though they may elevate themselves to a privileged position of prosperity it will always have the mentality of a miser . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
THE BILL
March 23, 2023 06:38 - 1 minute - 1.82 MBA musing about the private member's bills passed with rousing British Parliamentary pomposity it sounds as if they're committing a serious aural atrocity but it's usually being diatribed by someone whos spieling loudly through their own suppository . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
BLUE BLOOD
March 23, 2023 05:46 - 2 minutes - 1.99 MBBlue bloods are quite simply mad !! , they treat normal reality as an inconvenient triviality rules to them don't exist and the rest of us mere mortality are kept around as fluffers for their joviality in what's usually a porno drama of pansexuality . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
NIGELLA
March 22, 2023 21:27 - 1 minute - 1.74 MBA musing about a greasy spoon girl we call Nigella from the Favela If cook's could kill then this girl is definitely licensed to grill !! she's always standing by ever ready to kill your stomach acid with her peppermint pill . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message