Poetry
631 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month 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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TITANIC
March 25, 2024 20:31 - 7 minutes - 6.79 MBBeing at sea aboard huge luxury vessels is very glamorous. As a skipper-come-captain, it is easy to be wined and dined each evening by billionaires with the finest foods and drinks. 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 gotten drunk with a stewardess and gone to bed, leaving the vessel on autopilot. The similarities to the Titan...
DIY
March 25, 2024 16:23 - 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
FIFTY SHADES OF GREY
March 24, 2024 19:27 - 1 minute - 1.45 MBWhen you reach fifty, plus tax, and still see yourself as a sexy silver fox with those ash-gray locks, you might want to forget about the fifty shades of grey, and perhaps put your old sex pistol away. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
RAGMAN ROCKEFELLER
March 22, 2024 16:20 - 5 minutes - 4.67 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
NIRVANA
March 19, 2024 19:31 - 2 minutes - 2.63 MBSetting off on a world tour in the late seventies was nothing like it is today there were no mobile phones or multimedia just the odd phone box for calls your thumb and forefinger were used for hitchhiking thousands of miles around the globe taking years and years almost a decade to the point where many of us became wonderless with our own wanderlust but we did become quite skilled in the art of conversation due to spending so much time speaking with strangers back when you had the safety of ...
GRETA
March 17, 2024 13:19 - 3 minutes - 2.94 MBGreta has an almost impossible sales pitch she's to demand that the incredibly rich dumped that expensive pieces of kitsch , they fly to the cop out climate meetings in their lear jets and show not the slightest hesitation of any regrets, her gargantuan glitch is to try to move these people towards the green dream of a beggars itch, but these dinosaurs who block destiny's drawbridge are mega rich and have no intention of surrendering any of their Kardashian kitsch. To quote Churchill sardonic...
TIK TOK ROCK
March 15, 2024 11:29 - 2 minutes - 2.16 MBA tune for my godson Todd who's five years old it was inspired by listening to him talking about his modern dance class which involves quite a lot of acrobatics including parkouring from the kitchen table onto the floor then spinning round on his back hissing loudly like a fried egg or an angry snake. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
ROAD RAGE
March 14, 2024 07:48 - 1 minute - 1.69 MBSimmer the sapien inside a tin can especially in a stop start traffic jam and they quickly revert back to primitive man and that includes pacifists and your little old gran . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
SPRING CLEANING
March 12, 2024 17:08 - 57 seconds - 1000 KBA poem for Lily who mother is always in a constant Spring clean dusting and polishing until everything in the house begins to gleam, then again she could be addicted to the smell of Mr sheen or has she been drinking far too much caffeine, perhaps it's something to do with the covid vaccine that's turned her into this dopamine drama queen, what about the lack of vitamin b12 is she missing the red meat protein she's never quite been the same since she read the vegan magazine, oh for heaven's sa...
PROFUMO
March 12, 2024 08:04 - 3 minutes - 3.65 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...
BIG JUDD
March 11, 2024 20:01 - 1 minute - 1.91 MBMale prowess in the 1970s and 1980s of British northern towns usually ment you had to attempt to drink a liquid suicide to verify your masculine side to your alcoholic man tribe . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
A 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
MERCANTILE
March 09, 2024 16:46 - 1 minute - 1.27 MBA short poem written about the money monsters in the city of London they feed their need and greed down on London's squire mile all the while with a wry smirk and smile hence why this rapacious reptile is called Mr mercantile . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
ENVY
March 08, 2024 22:42 - 1 minute - 1.36 MBThe green-eyed monster of sin, that schadenfreude which we keep hidden away so deep within, its usually only seen in children as they exert their will to win ; the lowly leftover instinct of our anthropic ascension. However, this terrible traite can also be witnessed later in our lives when males begin to assert and dominate as the sexual stage arrives and our species needs to procreate . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
REVOLTING
March 08, 2024 18:55 - 36 seconds - 582 KBTwo haiku poems , TEAR DROP shows how a Tsunami can start from the slightest ripple. REVOLTING, another haiku poem on how if you distract someone with something revolting it can avert a revolution ie Rome's Colosseum or today's violent multimedia sedate the sapiens savagery and let the status quo grow . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
MIDNIGHT THUNDER
March 08, 2024 17:42 - 1 minute - 1.61 MBA poem about a very beautiful woman called Claudia who's powerful persona and laughter use to roll around us like a midnight thunder. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
A PROMISED LAND
March 08, 2024 12:17 - 1 minute - 1.38 MBA verse dedicated to Katy at the reception desk, who entices every man with a glimpse of paradise and a promised, only then to revel in glee as they step into her quagmire of quicksand. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
A NAVY BLUE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
March 07, 2024 18:05 - 2 minutes - 1.9 MBLiving our lives as nocturnal belfry bats fuelled by booze and nose gay narcotics we'd flutter back at dawn after sharing shrink spiel and serotonin Smarties at all night high octane piss and powder parties in H-gate is there any wonder that we all became navy blue neurotics suffering from nervous breakdowns and depression. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
ROBIN HOOD
March 07, 2024 06:48 - 2 minutes - 2.35 MBA living monument of mystery , Robin Hood's oak is by far the most famous tree in all of ancient history a thousand years of silent sophistry , with all its empty holes and hollows the winter winds howl through creating a mournful sound of sadness and sorrow. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
STARGATE
March 06, 2024 16:05 - 1 minute - 1.99 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
THE WOKING TO WATERLOO
March 06, 2024 09:54 - 6 minutes - 5.99 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
BARKINGHAM PALACE
March 06, 2024 06:58 - 1 minute - 1.93 MBAnother crazy sketch about the life of Thornton Harding the junior an aristocrat who is mad about his pets he calls them by the strangest names such as his dog Greyfriars Warton Benson the junior who i might add is allowed to do anything even attempting to drive the car. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
THE GOD FATHER
March 05, 2024 18:22 - 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
MEDUSA
March 05, 2024 15:05 - 2 minutes - 2.39 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
THE MUSTANG MEN
March 05, 2024 11:55 - 2 minutes - 2.37 MBThe Mustang Men were Wild tameless stallions with sports cars suntans and gold medallions , once they were war faced warriors now they're warfarin worries they part of the night time disco scene , now they're scared of cottage pie and cholesterol cream . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
THE LAUGHING BREXITEER
March 05, 2024 07:23 - 1 minute - 1.43 MBThe Westminster war of brexit has spilt a lot of blood onto the backbenchers but who will win the feudal few or the milky middle class crew . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
BLOOD RAIN
March 04, 2024 20:49 - 1 minute - 1.33 MBA poem about an artist girlfriend who's Spanish African temperament could turn from a soft mistral breeze that gently caressed your skin to violent blood rain Scirocco that rip's the blossom from trees slamming doors and smashing flower pot hearts into pieces washing them down the drain like biscuits in the rain . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
LUST
March 04, 2024 19:02 - 1 minute - 1.43 MBA poem about lust the seemingly deadly sin that if the devil be shamed and the truth be told is an instinctive desire that all of us do so hold . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
GEMINI
March 04, 2024 17:01 - 1 minute - 1.74 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
A LOVE AFFAIR
March 04, 2024 13:43 - 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
BLUE GIN
March 04, 2024 10:15 - 1 minute - 1.66 MBA short sketch about a friend who was constantly in and out of dry out clinics and the Shrink clink where he would telephone us to explain what his psychiatrist was doing and then in exasperated tormented tones shout "it's nothing to do with the drink " he called his depression Belfry the black bat. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
THE MINUTE PAST MIDNIGHT TRAIN
March 03, 2024 18:50 - 2 minutes - 2.36 MBA poem about leaving the steel town of Sheffield at the age of nineteen , I stood wondering why the train left at the minute past midnight until I heard a hundred steel whistles blew from the industrialised Armageddon of the east end , at a minute past midnight when the steel sirens had finished the train guard blew his whistle and I never looked back the same could be said to teenagers today free yourselves from the silicon slavery of the technology totalitarianism !!. --- Send in a voice...
WOKING TO WATERLOO
March 03, 2024 16:47 - 1 minute - 1.56 MBA short poem about riding aboard the busiest train in Europe, the 7:32 from Woking to Waterloo. One hundred million passengers a year pass through Waterloo, which creates both terrifying and tantalizing flesh-to-flesh points of view. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
GRANDAD
March 03, 2024 07:32 - 1 minute - 2 MBGrandfathers are like old sentinels that stand guard over us in our early infant years, as stolid as grandfather clocks. Their old, heavy hearts pendulum their rhythm of life into our newborn ears, a mortal metronome that keeps a steady beat to the timpani of our tiny feet. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
BLIND DATE
March 03, 2024 07:28 - 1 minute - 1.98 MBMusing about an old friend who has now divorced and gone back onto the dating sites, looking for lust, not realizing that his old sex pistol has long since turned to rust. Men of a certain age with faint hearts and feeble flesh really need to be careful while looking for a piece of freshness. I told one friend that his dating site, 'Bumble,' might be better called 'Crumble' due to the dusty dispositions of its clients. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/...
WHITE DEATH
March 02, 2024 14:51 - 1 minute - 1.97 MBA musing about my father's experience aboard a super cruise liner where he and most of the old poeple on board contracted some terrible infection that almost killed them and this was before the Covid Cruise Lines came along , interestingly you can see how you could end up with a Marie Celeste where everybody aboard ends up dead. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
SCREAMING TOMATOES
March 02, 2024 10:52 - 1 minute - 1.63 MBAn English king's breakfast could consist of swine flesh, embryos , fungi ,congealed blood , kippers, herring's, pike , roach various birds venison, cockles , pilchards . when thinking about the Buddhist belief of reincarnation wouldn't it be a devine justice if these gargantuan gluttonous came back as screaming red faced tomatoes in a vegan salad bar . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
CIDER PARK
March 02, 2024 06:55 - 1 minute - 1.77 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
DEATH
March 01, 2024 20:10 - 2 minutes - 2.26 MBUpon seeing a cold cadaver staring back people begin to timidly tread in fear of the dead circling round as though it be some spectral apparition of dread . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
MACHO MAN
February 29, 2024 20:20 - 1 minute - 1.67 MBTwenty years ago it came as quite a shock when someone we were living with became bisexual especially as they'd been such a lady killer and then became a maneater still what seemed such a big squeal is now an every day done deal . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
WATERLOO
February 28, 2024 17:40 - 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
DOOM IN THE ROOM
February 28, 2024 11:01 - 1 minute - 1.5 MBLiving as an artist's muse, you can understand the expression of "The Doom In The Room." What artists don't realize is that their egos can be so burdensome to everyone else. Probably, this is how they have to be in order for them to achieve what they do. This is usually why their muses are always so miserable. While living with an artist as a muse, I was painted with my own blood; She thought it to be a wonderful contrast of the color red splashed onto a stark white canvas, which was my Anglo...
O C D
February 27, 2024 15:49 - 1 minute - 1.46 MBThis is a musing I wrote after listening to my father, who had been conscripted into the British army during the Second World War. You can quite easily see why, by year twenty three, most members of the military have gone completely mad with OCD. It's perhaps due to the esprit de corps of the British army, which has a relentless marching rhythm beating to the sweet spot tempo of 120 from day one. Your heart, soul, body, and mind are recalibrated and realigned to the measured metronome of th...
COVID
February 26, 2024 17:15 - 2 minutes - 2.14 MBThis invisible foe of fear is here our café laite life styles are over we're living like trappist monk in self isolation cells our secular society has all but been defunk . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
SILK PURSE , SOW'S EAR
February 25, 2024 21:42 - 1 minute - 1.71 MBA musing about two relatives who should never have entered into a doomed relationship due to their persuasions and personalities being planets apart—one a reclusive miser and the other an extravagant extrovert. Perhaps now, with the internet, we might make a much better match.com or sexual selection of it with God Google's precision and profiling us to the last detail of our mortal minutiae. It should make for some interesting pairings that are not left to the seven senses of the sapien. -...
OXFAM
February 25, 2024 08:15 - 2 minutes - 2.78 MBThe Oxfam shop or as we call it "The dead man's drop" is an essential part of our high street culture we all of us at some stage find ourselves sifting through their silt as if stroking and smelling the scents and spirits of our past relatives like some lost and found bric-a-brac burial ground we old elephants come to rummage around amongst the bones and skin of our not so long ago departed kin. Unfortunately all the objects mentioned in this musing is what I have purchased and given away to ...
ODE TO A TOAD
February 24, 2024 20:03 - 1 minute - 1.42 MBPaint me warts and all said Olivier Cromwell who had the skin of an old toad after his death he was hung at Tyburn then decapitated his head was put on a pole outside Westminster palace the parliament he'd spilt so much blood to put in place . I have used some archaic English which is still used in many Yorkshire rural communities to this very day. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
HELLS ANGELS
February 23, 2024 08:40 - 1 minute - 1.63 MBThe Belles Angels a bunch of hell raising Harrogate girls all leather an lace with lipstick an curls they murdered the midnight hour an slaughtered sobriety swapping sex an saliva like a real lady Godiva , to all those super sexy Ladies college girls I say God bless to you all . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
SHYLOCK
February 22, 2024 07:02 - 1 minute - 1.73 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 SPECIAL BREW CREW
February 21, 2024 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.9 MBFor 20 years, we used to revel in bonhomie at our favorite haunt, the Montpellier Quarter in Harrogate. We were known as the Montpellier Mice, who were eventually picked off by the birds of prey. The pubs we frequented, the Blues Bar and The Slut and Fetish, are now a thing of the past. Today, we find ourselves caught in the big dry. We lost quite a few friends to that old and filthy drink, but unfortunately, we survived. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sh...