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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GABRIEL
January 11, 2024 06:43 - 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
SAMSON
January 10, 2024 06:32 - 1 minute - 2.01 MBThe 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 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
BLOOD MOON
January 09, 2024 13:51 - 2 minutes - 2.91 MBA 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 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
PLASTIC FANTASTIC
January 08, 2024 08:07 - 3 minutes - 3.61 MBThis 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 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
THE BLACK DOG
January 07, 2024 18:17 - 1 minute - 1.86 MBWe 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 MBA 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
PAPARAZZI
January 06, 2024 20:30 - 1 minute - 1.85 MBEvery day the paparazzi serve us our blood and gore all freshly sacrificed red and raw no good being a herb eating herbivore what you've really got to be is a cover story carnivore with the stomach of a blood thirsty toreador let's face it the press room's a slaughtermans stable and the editor's desk is nothing more than a butcher's table. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
TWINS
January 06, 2024 20:28 - 42 seconds - 741 KBThe strange phenomenon of dizygotic twin estrangement when nothing of similarity seems to have been shared apart from their identical indifference that mirrored in a perfect reflection towards each other . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
A MOON BEAM DREAM
January 06, 2024 06:08 - 1 minute - 1.28 MBA poem about a cherub child called Lily who arrived so divine and right on time to save us from our our self destruction just as if Gabriel had gifted to us his immortal lily shaped horn . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
SUICIDE SNAILS.
January 05, 2024 20:16 - 1 minute - 1.39 MBA poem written about the suicidal tendencies of snails, that started out as jellyfish swimming freely in the wide-open sea. Now, I can understand why, bonded onto terra firma, they may suffer from depression or suicidal tendencies, throwing themselves to their deaths under our feet on every garden path or rain-wet street. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
L S D
January 05, 2024 07:08 - 4 minutes - 3.86 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...
A TYPHOON IN THE ROOM
January 03, 2024 13:45 - 1 minute - 1.67 MBA poem written for a crazy young woman who I fell hopelessly in love with during the summer of 1992 whilst working in the South of France aboard yachts in the port of Antibes . Together we stayed in a huge stone pile called the chateau Laval courtesy of Jack et Michelle Olga was a green-eyed goddess with olive skin and a temper that she'd borrowed from the dog cerberus , I was a dotting fool but hay to everyone who's ever suffered from the lightning strike of love at first sight or as the I...
FRANKENSTEIN
January 03, 2024 07:48 - 2 minutes - 2.15 MBMy words may seem a little callous and cruel that's because they are the comments I've collected and collated from the café clientele who share their space with these disabled individuals , by the grace of good fortune there walk we . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
THE CENOTAPH
January 02, 2024 21:17 - 2 minutes - 2.8 MBA poem I wrote about our cenotaph , every town in Britain has one of these grisly reminders to the great war and then ever war there after .At first they were a pilgrimage for the patriotic to come and worship their glorious dead but now they're used by so many different swathes of society as a place to rebel, and then there's the drunks and drug addicts who seem to favour and gravitate towards these ancient monuments almost similar to those druids who worship in the circle of Stonehenge. -...
GENTLE GIANTS
January 02, 2024 13:21 - 3 minutes - 3.81 MBIt's about time the human realised that a tree is flesh and blood not just timber or a price of wood , these beautiful living entities give us shelter shade and our lifesaving breath ,without them we are condemning our selves to curtain death --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
SEX SLAVES
January 02, 2024 10:48 - 2 minutes - 3 MBToday there are approximately forty million slaves ten million of which are sex slaves, as before these poor poverty stricken women are used as weapons of war I was reading how some had been sold for as little as a packet of cigarettes . In the west girls become slaves working out of suburban back bedrooms or cellars they account for a third of all organised crime profits billions of dollars. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
RAG AND BONE
January 02, 2024 07:32 - 3 minutes - 3.33 MBA song 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
KISS OF DEATH
January 01, 2024 22:37 - 58 seconds - 1000 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
HANGMAN
January 01, 2024 20:01 - 1 minute - 2 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
WHIPPING BOY
January 01, 2024 19:55 - 1 minute - 1.97 MBEmperors Popes and Kings believe themselves to be the devine demagoguery even as children they had whipping boys to take away their punishment and guilt scapegoats for them to stripe and slaughter If the true devine deity did arrive on planet earth these mobsters and megalomaniacs would soon see them quickly murdered . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
GROUND ZERO
January 01, 2024 08:19 - 2 minutes - 2.27 MBThe crisis of covid-19 has caused our fast spinning world to slow to a seizing after trillions of dollars of quantitative easing it still feels like the whole world has been hit by some dreadful physical freezing now everybody waits with bated breath for the chancellor of the Exchequer to begin his terrible squeezing an just when the pandemic feels over winter arrives and again people start coughing an sneezing gasping an a wheezing . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify...
SCOTCH BROTH
December 31, 2023 23:41 - 2 minutes - 2.1 MBA poem i wrote for the fire and brimstone preacher who baptised me in an ice water stone trough a wild religious Celt with raven hair alabaster skin and husky dog blue eyes a true blood line of the ancient Bretagne . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
KANGAROO
December 31, 2023 09:17 - 1 minute - 1.9 MBThe English aristocrats are completely crazy. One member of the aristocracy used to ride around his country estate on a giraffe-drawn carriage, and as a child, he had giant tortoises. He kept every type of animal in his house. This is a funny sketch about Thornton Harding the Junior and his obsession with exotic pets. He's building a kangaroo netball team. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
THE WIND
December 29, 2023 17:32 - 54 seconds - 938 KBA short poem about the wind a vandal hell bent on destruction. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
THE PATH TO PERDITION
December 28, 2023 16:59 - 1 minute - 1.81 MBAll Medieval religions outlawed usury as a sin , profit of any kind wasn't allowed it still stands as a judgement against you , the pathway to Perdition is going to be littered with alot of Gods righteous as well as the Devil's detritus . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
MAN TRIBE
December 26, 2023 08:16 - 1 minute - 2 MBBack in the sixties heavy industry was extremely hard work the way the men eased their brutal burden was with non-stop humourous quirk today its seen as a social deride that one must hastily hide .humour has become a malignant tumor cut away by political correctness until its now all but a rumour . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
SILK PURSE SOW'S EAR
December 25, 2023 23:10 - 1 minute - 1.86 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
EQUINOX
December 24, 2023 13:48 - 1 minute - 1.79 MBBlue September skies signals the end of Summer's lease the autumn equinox in one day changes everything tilting time and tugging tide , it's as though our seasons of life has suddenly died . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
BLUE BLOOD
December 23, 2023 22:19 - 2 minutes - 2.17 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
EARTH, WATER , WIND AND FIRE
December 23, 2023 20:31 - 57 seconds - 915 KBThe four main elements to life if we do not learn to respect them as ancient cultures did then they will cease to respect us . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
EULOGY
December 23, 2023 07:51 - 1 minute - 2 MBA eulogy for Dave a wonderful man who I knew for forty years. Grandfathers are like old sentinels that stand guard over us in our early infant years , stolid as grandfather clocks their old heavy hearts pendulum the rhythm of life into our new born ears a mortal metronome that keeps a steady beat to the timpani of our tiny pattering feet. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
LILY'S BIRTHDAY SONG
December 22, 2023 22:10 - 2 minutes - 2.04 MBA little ditty I wrote for lillian's birthday who was born on the first of may now aged nine .all rights reserved --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
A LOVE HONEY SPUNK BUNNY
December 22, 2023 18:47 - 2 minutes - 2.95 MBA song for a love honey we called Ann Summers due to her working there, she asked me for a birthday card poem and caused me a writer's block which when I tried to explain she cursed me a look of pure disdain , so I wrote this along the lines of a frigid flustering fool that she'd doubtless be serving at the Ann summers shop. Katie looks at all men with indifference and always takes fun from them , Bravo darling it's all we deserve. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.co...
CAT FLAP
December 22, 2023 09:46 - 2 minutes - 2.59 MBA musing written for lily age 9 and her cat Sean who's got terribly fat due to been neutered, he's put on a lot of weight I've narrated it in a yorkshire accent due to Sean being born and raised in Harrogate . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
THE TAXI DRIVER
December 22, 2023 08:09 - 1 minute - 1.68 MBA musing about a taxi-dermist cabbie who wouldn't stop spieling about his slaughterhouse side line job, my friend and I could see and smell the blood by the time he'd finished our short journey. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
THE BODY OF JOHN DOE
December 21, 2023 22:30 - 1 minute - 1.55 MBEvery experience of adult behaviour through the innocent eyes of a child is quite terrifying now as an adult even death is placed into a calm casual context your maker might as well be a baker. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
A short story 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 , as the super computer takes over completely and begins to do a billion tweeks a minute to everything mapping the brain body and everything else in our universe maybe one day soon a connection with the great unknown will happen but would we humble humans even know let's face it the vacuum seal of space or infini...
REFUGEE
December 20, 2023 15:11 - 2 minutes - 2.53 MBFrom Bonaparte to Lionheart from the mayflower to the superpower all Nations have produce refugees at one time or another we're all to blame for this ever increasing burden of shame --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
ANN SUMMERS
December 20, 2023 11:20 - 1 minute - 1.8 MBA musing for a women we called Ann Summers due to her working there she asked for a birthday poem and caused me a writer's block which when I tried to explain she looked at me with utter disdain so I wrote it along the lines of if I bumped into her serving at the Ann summers shop Katie scowls at all men with indifference and takes fun from them Bravo darling It's no more than we deserve. Art work by Steven Richardson . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/st...
LINDSAY
December 20, 2023 08:53 - 1 minute - 1.28 MBA poem I wrote for the everso beautiful Lindsay who is leaving after 11 years she brought her LGBT spirit and colour into our drab fifty souls of grey community bombing us daily with vivid wondrous paintings she takes with her an extraordinary feng shui losing her is like the loss of a perpetual summer's day , artist are the community take them away and you kill it's soul you're left with empty plastic people with tarmac tongues and concrete craniums. --- Send in a voice message: https://p...
EMANCIPATION
December 20, 2023 07:31 - 2 minutes - 2.29 MBWalking into a very expensive veggie vegan boutique i listened to the sermon of a spiritual salesman , it felt as if you we're about to adopt his precious vegetables , this high priest of the Celtic druids so worshipped his wild woodland produce I got to feeling that my blood would be sacrificed under an oak tree named Zeus after i touched a sacred sprig of his mistletoe obviously punishable on pain of death . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-rich...
THE DOGS OF WAR
December 19, 2023 20:10 - 1 minute - 1.45 MBA comprehensive piece discusses the mercenaries known as the "Dogs of War" who engage in conflict for financial gain across the globe. Africa has long struggled with the presence of such militants, and even today, they continue to sow chaos worldwide, including in regions like Israel, Palestine, Russia, and Ukraine. These "Dogs of War" are hired by numerous superpowers, and their growing numbers have started to turn against those who once trained and supported them – including countries suc...
LIQUID SIN
December 19, 2023 13:38 - 1 minute - 1.99 MBThe high functioning alcoholic starts the day with a liberal libation of liquid sin, beneath their Celtic cream coloured skin once beat the heart of Gunga Din . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
STEVE MCQUEEN
December 17, 2023 08:21 - 6 minutes - 5.56 MBSteve McQueen once said he came from the gutter and that he'd not done bad for an orphan boy , after a fifty different jobs from lumberjack, getaway driver, pimp and gunrunner etc he finally found his niche . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
THE COUNTESS
December 16, 2023 21:47 - 2 minutes - 2.89 MBKrystyna Skarbek was a Polish beauty queen, a countess, and the longest-serving spy in Churchill's wartime Special Operations Executive (SOE). With a life expectancy of just six weeks, she managed to last seven years as a field agent, fighting against Nazi tyranny, only to be betrayed by her own trusted powers, the British. At the end of the Second World War, with a stroke of their metaphorical Judas pen, they turned her into a stateless refugee and leaked her name to Stalin's newly formed ...
SACRED RAIN
December 14, 2023 21:55 - 59 seconds - 1.01 MBA 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 ARTIST
December 13, 2023 19:56 - 2 minutes - 1.9 MBA Musing about my artist girlfriend from Barcelona, Spain, I couldn't understand what she meant by being a spiritual suffragette. Sacrificing love and life for her art, I thought her to be pompous and pretentious, born with a silver spoon up her sleeve. Now, after months of lockdown, living as a mendicant monk in my own garret 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...