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Poetry

630 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months 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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THE FEUDAL FEW

February 07, 2024 20:53 - 2 minutes - 1.97 MB

The British boarding schools were without doubt what built the British Empire, anyone subjected to this kind of cruelty or brutal treatment could easily subjugate a sufferance over someone else especially another colour or creed which the British empire managed to achieve for a few hundred years . These Schools each had peculiar painful traits, Eton for instance use to be famous for its flagellation fridays where in the library boys would be placed onto a specially constructed birching block ...

LOST LOVE

February 07, 2024 07:43 - 1 minute - 1.63 MB

A poem written for a woman who lost the love of her life then tried to replace and replicate it only to end up living in a dreadful union of strife . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

AMBRE SOLAIRE

February 05, 2024 08:48 - 5 minutes - 5.22 MB

A poem for super tramp who had a very good cure for his halitosis panting out perfumed breath after drinking your bathroom cabinet dry , Slaking down aftershave aperitifs . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

SECOND HAND LOVE

February 04, 2024 18:05 - 6 minutes - 5.98 MB

As you get older looking for love is similar to rummaging through a jumble sale you sift an shake through the worn and torn fragile an forlorn usually to no avail due to people male or female being stretched to the size of an old grey whale . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

THE SOUL

February 04, 2024 10:37 - 1 minute - 1.94 MB

"The ghost in our mortal machine is like a spiritual symbiotic twin, a collaborative companion that shares in our secular sin. Silently and secretively, it hides within our sapien skin, accompanying us from the womb to the tomb, and then ultimately giving evidence on the day of our doom. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

HELL GIRL

February 03, 2024 12:31 - 2 minutes - 2.1 MB

A musing for Lily's tenth birthday, with a leather jacket to match my own design of course; Mother isn't not too keen, but I have a sneaking suspicion she'd like one too. By years ten , kids of today are Silicon savvy sage a decade of age and they're ready to fledge the family fold, far too cool for school, they just let god Google TikTok rule!!. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

MA FAT MATE

February 03, 2024 06:08 - 1 minute - 1.59 MB

A poem written about my rolly Polly fat flat mate who lost a massive amount of weight becoming ever so serious and slim , I on the other hand have taken his place becoming fat and happy obviously morphing to the company I've kept . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

SIRI

February 02, 2024 17:18 - 1 minute - 1.6 MB

When 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 new god or goddess of the wisdom channel. Children of the future will almost certainly rely less on parental guidance and instead immerse themselves in 'Space-book' while being comfortably cocooned in their futuristic homes, perhaps resembling something of a Walt Disney Crack House. --- Send in a voice message: https://podc...

SPARTACUS

February 02, 2024 07:54 - 3 minutes - 3.95 MB

The third slave uprising in Rome was brutally crushed; a hundred thousand men lay dead on the battlefield, and another six thousand were crucified along the Appian Way, left to rot as carrion crow fodder, serving as a lesson for anyone else inclined to rebel against the might of Rome. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

NAME AND SHAME

February 01, 2024 16:45 - 1 minute - 1.68 MB

A 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

VOODOO DAWN

February 01, 2024 06:32 - 1 minute - 1.91 MB

If 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

SLOTH

January 31, 2024 22:06 - 2 minutes - 2.17 MB

The 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

LOVE LETTERS

January 31, 2024 07:19 - 2 minutes - 2.35 MB

Hidden 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

BLUE TATTOO

January 25, 2024 07:37 - 3 minutes - 3.06 MB

What was once a stamp for the lowly tramp or the cut of a criminal class is now adorning the faces and physique of the aristocrat royalty and supermodel chic . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

CUCKOO

January 21, 2024 21:02 - 1 minute - 1.04 MB

In medieval times quacks were dressed to resemble large birds wearing a huge beaks they believed the soul was delivered and despatched by avian transmigration i.e stalk''s babies , Ravens , omens, Cuckoo's madness . I suppose to the superstition of the ancients cancer begins as a small egg shaped lump and then hatches out of its embryonic stage into a vulturous flesh eating bird . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

COVID 19

January 21, 2024 19:35 - 1 minute - 1.76 MB

This poem is about our fixation with fear, which I must add is definitely here. We're all living like mendicant monks; our decadent café latte lifestyles are all but defunct. This virus hangs about us like the prophecy of Macbeth, creating constant hysteria as though it were a new strain of black death. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

NATASHA

January 21, 2024 18:33 - 1 minute - 1.9 MB

The only true miracle that we mortal beings are likely to see comes in the form of our genetic immortality—the gene transfer continuum, better known to you and me as a baby. Throughout human history, we have believed in many different deities and divinities, ranging from Greek gods to our present-day Corpus Christi. But when it comes to the real miracle-making capability, it's the female of our species that is graced with life-giving fertility. This poem is written for a close friend of m...

FIFTY SHADES OF GREY

January 21, 2024 10:41 - 1 minute - 1.45 MB

When 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

BOHEMIAN

January 20, 2024 08:23 - 1 minute - 1.36 MB

A poem written for two old Bohemians who through reckless behaviour in a younger year did so destroy the fragile entity of love , and are now left with just the ghost of her to haunt their old empty hearts . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

FATE ON A PLATE

January 19, 2024 18:01 - 1 minute - 1.54 MB

The macabre story about a great grandmother who's ashes were made into a bone china plate by her broken hearted lover , this practice of using powdered human bone in pottery still continues to this day with artists such as Crow and Kraft who call it crafting cremains . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

REDEMPTION

January 18, 2024 19:03 - 1 minute - 1.84 MB

To 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

THE TRUTH

January 18, 2024 18:07 - 2 minutes - 2.61 MB

The 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

LESBIAN MAN

January 18, 2024 10:46 - 1 minute - 1.76 MB

A poem I wrote about an angry old man I know who was freed from his angst after receiving estrogen hormone therapy for prostate cancer. It liberated his feminine side as well , and now, he's a much happier person since they've unleashed his lesbian libido. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

A SONG FOR NINA

January 17, 2024 20:14 - 2 minutes - 2.39 MB

A song I wrote for Nina's birthday she's lock down with covid and the kids a soft swing song to say we all do love you take care xx --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

GODFREY

January 17, 2024 18:49 - 1 minute - 1.63 MB

A musing about the craziness of the Boer war and how lord Kitchener was more obsessed with his missing pet starling showing terrible emotional distress whilst all around him in the Boer war hundreds of thousands of people were dying of disease and starvation due to his scorched earth policies especially women and children in the first ever concentration camps with conditions worse than those of the ones in Nazi Germany , thank heavens he's not here to sort out the coronavirus . --- Send in...

THE IMMACULATE CREATION

January 17, 2024 16:11 - 1 minute - 803 KB

a musing about an artist girlfriend and her crazy cultural crew,  their works of art or gestation periods of genius seem to carry similar traits and time scales to those of real pregnancies . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

GLUTTONY

January 17, 2024 08:37 - 1 minute - 2.01 MB

I was quite horrified to read that humans are responsible for the slaughter of three billion animals each day. I wrote the poem in a pompous manner after listening to a hunter talking about his blood sports. He believed it to be his righteous privilege to kill, similar to royalty who once regularly indulged their palates with the flesh of endangered species. Some are still doing so today by buying licenses from secret, corrupt African auction houses. In many poor countries, gluttony and obe...

JAGUAR

January 16, 2024 22:18 - 1 minute - 1.96 MB

In the swinging sixties, it was fashionable to own a car, especially a Lady Gaga Jaguar. Then, you were truly nouveau riche—a make-believe millionaire, the fake faux movie stars. Members of my family and their friends were just like this. Usually, their balloons burst into bankruptcy, debt, and divorce. Too much money in young hands is akin to mixing desire with hellfire. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

ELVIS

January 16, 2024 08:06 - 3 minutes - 3.19 MB

A 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 it but also began to attack the musical apartheid of America as 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

SOUL CATCHER

January 15, 2024 19:13 - 1 minute - 1.5 MB

Similar 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

THE OLD COLONIAL

January 15, 2024 16:14 - 1 minute - 1.87 MB

Old Colonials talk of empire its quite shocking how they used to think of human beings as nothing more than chattels not just the natives but also the white workers and soldiers such as my old father now 95 years of age he told me during his time in India just after the second world War whilst protecting the British Raj who looked upon him also as their SLAVE OF EMPIRE . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

THE MORTAL MACHINE

January 15, 2024 11:57 - 1 minute - 1.89 MB

A poem written for my father, who was born in 1926 and is now similar to an old Model T Ford, needing constant tinkering and maintenance to keep him running. Also, I've done my best to copy his gasping Yorkshire speech. Born in the days of the horse and cart, he started working at the age of twelve down in the mills on the east side of a steel river. He mentioned that not only were the steel drays pulled by the huge Shire horses, but during the Second World War, they also used the might of ...

THE MORTAL MACHINE

January 13, 2024 22:07 - 5 minutes - 5.38 MB

A poem I wrote for my father, who was born in 1926 and is now similar to a model T motor car, needing constant tinkering to keep him up and running. I've done my best to capture his gasping Yorkshire accent. He was born in the days of horse and cart, starting work at the age of twelve in the steel mills on the east side of the iron river. He mentioned that not only were the steel drays pulled by the huge shire horses, but during the Second World War, they also used elephants from the zoo due...

SANCTIMONIOUS STAN

January 13, 2024 14:41 - 1 minute - 1.26 MB

A poem about a miserable old man who people nick named stan he once had a palace and a kingdom then unfortunately lost everything and was reduced to that of a normal man , alas such a tragedy to fall down amonst we the mere mortal clan . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

SEX

January 13, 2024 09:30 - 2 minutes - 2.34 MB

Prostitution is one of the oldest professions in the world which was here before the four angels of Samuel, it's about time the government had the bravery to take control of this modern day slavery let's face facts  the chancellor's been selling narcotics i.e cigarettes an booze for hundreds of years so why allow the criminals any vice take over all their operations and save these poor girls any more torture legalise their profession too . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.sp...

LADYKILLER

January 12, 2024 22:20 - 4 minutes - 4.48 MB

A poem for my dear friend, whose charismatic charm with women is so legendary that he earned the nickname "The Valley Drive Lady Killer." Even while lying on the surgeon's table, awaiting a serious operation, he still managed to captivate the attention of a young nurse who was shaving his body in preparation for his open-heart surgery. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

STONEWALL

January 12, 2024 17:57 - 2 minutes - 2.33 MB

A poem I wrote to commemorate the courage of Christine the first transexual beauty queen who back in 1953 decided bravely to have her gender reassigned to its rightful sexuallity in order that she may be set free from the burden of having to live with her very unwanted masculinity. but it would be a long haul from the first roll of that snowball before the gay community finally made they're stand for equality at the pup we now know as stonewall. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcast...

ROBIN RED B

January 12, 2024 16:39 - 46 seconds - 798 KB

Legend has that the Robin gained his red breast from pulling the thorns out of the crown of Jesus at his crucifixion to ease his suffering --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

NIGELLA

January 12, 2024 14:54 - 1 minute - 1.9 MB

A 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

REVOLUTION

January 12, 2024 08:12 - 2 minutes - 2.53 MB

Sooner than later we as a species will have to address our crazy situation of over population due to land perish and pollution in the final stages we may well end up as refugees building flood barricades ready for the rain storm revolution . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

GABRIEL

January 11, 2024 06:43 - 1 minute - 1.17 MB

Janine 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

SAMSON

January 10, 2024 06:32 - 1 minute - 2.01 MB

The loss of a lion's mane is similar to that of a man's hair; as it recedes, they both become timid and tame, loosing pride and prowess both these mammals are now out of the game . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

HANGOVER

January 09, 2024 21:16 - 2 minutes - 2.33 MB

A 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

NIRVANA

January 09, 2024 17:38 - 2 minutes - 2.63 MB

Setting 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 ...

BLOOD MOON

January 09, 2024 13:51 - 2 minutes - 2.91 MB

A little swing jazz tune written for a friend who has an extremely high sex drive it uses the feminine and the masculine tense due to the person in question being bisexual he once called him self a sexual psychopath. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

BLACK ROD

January 08, 2024 22:16 - 1 minute - 1.84 MB

A 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

PLASTIC FANTASTIC

January 08, 2024 08:07 - 3 minutes - 3.61 MB

This is a poem I wrote about the catastrophic consequences of having too much cosmetic surgery, leaving many patients in a reconstructive purgatory. The surgeons are often referred to as the Picasso's of plastic, but they can end up with foot-in-mouth or tongue-in-cheek . Sculpting with scalpel the face fantastic, but sadly you're left with a gargoyle freak. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

SYLLABLE SWING

January 07, 2024 22:08 - 2 minutes - 2.69 MB

When 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

THE BLACK DOG

January 07, 2024 18:17 - 1 minute - 1.86 MB

We use to live our lives like nocturnal belfry bats fuelled on drink and drama, cranial crashes of darkness and depression were common place an the only way to fight against them was with serotonin smarties and a daily dose of humour and laughter . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

LEVITICUS

January 06, 2024 22:16 - 1 minute - 1.14 MB

A poem I wrote for a terribly crippled girl called Daniella she lived in agony all her life but there wasn't a day I didn't see her gorgeous smile or hear her wonderful laughter , she has a soul so big and beautiful it certainly casts long shadows of perfection over my own Quasimodo anima and many others . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message