Poetry
631 episodes - English - Latest episode: 28 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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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...
GUY FAWKES
December 13, 2023 14:13 - 3 minutes - 3.18 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...
THE BILL
December 12, 2023 07:05 - 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
MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE
December 08, 2023 07:38 - 17 minutes - 16 MBA short story about doing a favor for a rich friend who lives in a country estate in the middle of no where . This then turned into a terrifying experience of trying to get back to some semblance of civilization. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
LOVE
November 30, 2023 07:24 - 3 minutes - 3.31 MBThinking back to my parents fate it's hard to see how they once did romantically pass through the eden gate into the land of milk and money where they fell hopelessly in love and felt the urge to passionately procreate , after which they wore the mortgage mask that twenty five year servile task eventually paying back the bank managers seven percent overdraft , they scrimped and scrapped in a steel city strife an then this beleaguered husband and wife decided to search out a big world party a...
THE STATION
November 29, 2023 11:23 - 3 minutes - 3.66 MBLooking at the selection of sapiens on a train station I was wondering if we mixed all of them together as if they were paint in a garden shed, would we all end up resembling something khaki like an olive coloured bread . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
November 26, 2023 07:36 - 2 minutes - 2.01 MBThis is a poem I wrote for an innocent looking girl called Alice who when tempered up turns into a hell's angel of malice she resembles a fairytale princess fresh from a folkloric palace yet soon as she opens her mouth you think she's been drinking from the poisoned chalice with her hands in the air she stands about four feet tall but after a rise through with alcohol she turns into a native neanderthal, forget all about etiquette and protocol this little tomboy is more likely to be found scr...
SUFFRAGETTE
November 22, 2023 07:09 - 2 minutes - 2.34 MBWith courage commitment and candour these extraordinary women did something that had never been done before and that was to bring the age of equality knocking loudly upon the British empires front door. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
PRIDE
November 21, 2023 18:46 - 1 minute - 1.61 MBA prick of our precious pride is all that's needed to derail and deride our sensibility into taking a walk back onto the wild side . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
VANITY
November 19, 2023 07:34 - 1 minute - 1.77 MBIs vanity a sin ? or is it just the selfish substance that we need in order to win . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
THE BEE'S KNEES
November 18, 2023 13:08 - 1 minute - 1.76 MBThe birds and bees have joined us from the flowers and trees you find them at Macdonald's an champagne bars lapping up our left over cream teas they'll hardly be floaty lite on the breeze after feasting on our fat fantastic sleaze . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
SPITTLE AND SPUME
November 17, 2023 17:59 - 2 minutes - 2.36 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
SERMON OF A SQUIRREL
November 17, 2023 13:28 - 1 minute - 1.95 MBCovid 19 as seen through the eyes of a squirrel , watching them fighting for scraps from the dustbins whilst under lock down ,they appear so confident and carefree without us I think possibly the only thing they'd missed about our absence is the leftover Ben and Jerry's ice cream . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
CHLAMYDIA
November 15, 2023 20:04 - 55 seconds - 954 KBA short minute musing about infecting your friends computer's with a virus and how they treat it as though you've infected them with a sexually transmitted STD . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
A MIDWIFE CRISIS
November 15, 2023 13:27 - 1 minute - 1.71 MBA poem about men and their midwife crisis as a matter course men feel the need to try out a new horse so they get a divorce and set off in search of adventure usually riding a Harley-Davidson towards a hot sexual sun and what they think will be some all together brand new fun . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
COCK ROBIN
November 15, 2023 11:11 - 1 minute - 1.58 MBEmblazoned bright upon his breast he carries that noble heraldic crest , tis the colour of blood and fire be it a blessed response to his lovers desire, suspicion states that he was at the passion of christ , an there by thorny crown was blooded an blessed , is this why today he doth still sanctify the arrival of our christmas fest . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
THE LION THING
November 11, 2023 18:23 - 1 minute - 1.99 MBLooking at my Godson watching the Lion king I cast myself back to childhood where I first saw a pathetic lion used as a guard dog in a scrap yard chained toothless clawless and castrated never should these beautiful beast be caged into torment and cruelty for our amusement we should leave them to roam wild and free on their sub-saharan Savannah . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
GLASTONBURY
November 11, 2023 06:50 - 2 minutes - 2.35 MBWhen you're a teenager there's always one of your real tight crew who takes too much powder and drinks too much brew, we use to called him the Glastonbury gladiator , funny but with them having so much testosterone and adrenaline they also make brilliant parents when they come of age after finishing their thirty year teenage rampage . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
COLETTE
November 10, 2023 21:45 - 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...
KARMA
November 08, 2023 14:42 - 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
SYLLABLE SWING
November 04, 2023 11:55 - 1 minute - 1.96 MBWhen children first acquire their tongue they sing along like a fledglings song and on the first day of spring they chirp their rhyming swing which to them is a brand new play thing without any of our restraining ring , their simple melodic crooning needs no interference or fine tuning but unfortunately then school comes along with its lexicon Lego box tongue "dislexicating " what was once a beautiful song leaving that innocent syllable swing broken the veritable birds fragile wing. kids then...
HOLD THE LINE
November 03, 2023 06:39 - 2 minutes - 2.24 MBThe old post office Harrogate is located about a century behind Greenwich mean time, the pensioners there are disciplinarians by design if you slip out of sync or cross the red line then these old soldiers would quickly bark you back into the align. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
SUNBEAM STAIRWAY
October 31, 2023 17:40 - 47 seconds - 760 KBThree Haiku poems WISDOM , SUNBEAM , HEADLINE NEWS. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
CHRISTINE
October 27, 2023 07:06 - 3 minutes - 3.4 MBA song I wrote to commemorate the courage of Christine, the first transgender beauty queen who, back in 1953, bravely decided to have her gender reassigned to its rightful sexuality, in order that she might be set free from the burden of living with her very unwanted masculinity. But it would be a long journey from the first roll of that snowball before the LGBTQ+ community finally made their stand for equality at the pub we now know as Stonewall. --- Send in a voice message: https://podc...
SEVEN SHADES OF SIN.
October 24, 2023 14:34 - 2 minutes - 2.41 MBA preacher man told me that all of us come pre packaged with the seven shades of sin which are basically our primitive seven instincts of survival that were needed whilst hunter gathering on the savage African Savannah, through evolution and ecclesiastical endeavours we have been trying to adapt our mammalian species to a more sentient state of being ever since . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
SALVATION
October 22, 2023 18:09 - 2 minutes - 2.58 MBA little tune i wrote for James who's very devout in his religion each Sunday we usually have a long discussion with him trying to convert me to his Christianity and me remaining with my humble hallowed humanity both of us respectful of each others theistic thoughts. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
VIRGIN DEATH
October 05, 2023 15:57 - 1 minute - 1.35 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
MANCHESTER
September 10, 2023 14:13 - 2 minutes - 2.03 MBBig Manchester Pete the hardest looking man you were ever likely to meet his face was made for a trick or treat but inside he carried a big old heart that was softer than a boiled swede of sugar beet . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
MONSTER MUNCH
August 25, 2023 07:15 - 2 minutes - 2.47 MBA short song I wrote about the monster munch crisps as a love song I did it whilst riding aboard a train the 11.34 from Bicester to London Marylebone station 12.38 recorded in two takes outside McDonald's in double quick time. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
WOKING TO WATERLOO.
July 26, 2023 07:29 - 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
FEMME FATALE
June 21, 2023 06:23 - 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
IMMORTALITY
May 31, 2023 19:16 - 1 minute - 1.9 MBThe only true miracle that we mortal beings are likely to see comes in the form of our genetic immortality that gene transfer continuum better known to you and me as a baby, Throughout the humans brief biological history it has believed in many a different sherman deity an Divinity ranging from Greek gods to our present day Corpus Christi, But when it comes to the real miracle making capability then it's the female of our species that is graced with the life giving fertility. This poem is wr...
GOD GOOGLE
April 12, 2023 21:39 - 30 minutes - 28.7 MBA 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...
IMMORTAL
April 08, 2023 16:15 - 1 minute - 1.02 MBThe only true miracle that we mortal beings are likely to see comes in the form of our genetic immortality that gene transfer continuum better known to you and me as a baby, Throughout the humans brief biological history it has believed in many a different sherman deity an Divinity ranging from Greek gods to our present day Corpus Christi, But when it comes to the real miracle making capability then it's the female of our species that is graced with the life giving fertility. This poem is wr...
TATTOO
April 07, 2023 21:23 - 3 minutes - 3.06 MBWhat 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
GOD GOOGLE
March 24, 2023 07:28 - 47 seconds - 818 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
BOHEMIAN FUGITIVES
March 20, 2023 07:27 - 1 minute - 1.25 MBA 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
MANEATER
February 25, 2023 22:15 - 2 minutes - 2.31 MBKrystyana Skarbek was a polish beauty queen a countess and the longest serving spy in Churchill's war time SOE , with a life expectancy of just six weeks she lasted seven years as a field agent fighting against Nazi tyranny only then to be betrayed by her own trusted powers that be the British who at the end of the second world war with a stroke of their Judas pen turned her into a stateless refugee and also leaked her name to Stalin's newly formed KGB . On the day that she was due to...
STRICTLY COME DANCING
January 28, 2023 08:19 - 1 minute - 1.74 MBHumorous little sketch I wrote for Jeanine who was going to see strictly come dancing live in Leeds I wrote the sketch after listening to two old men complaining about the aches and pains in witherspoons Darlington it's narrated in their yorkshire accents, the photo is from strictly come dancing the same night in Leeds sent by JEANINE . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
OUI
January 19, 2023 21:18 - 40 seconds - 643 KBLe poeme en francais ,the language of love. Forgive my French it's been twenty-five years since I was there. A poem about women should always be in the feminine hence why I use La poeme instead of Le masculine , it sounds and lends it's self much more to L'amour which is masculine in the singular and feminine in the plural , entre l'androgyne et l'ambigute'. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
BUSY BEES
January 19, 2023 17:17 - 1 minute - 1.76 MBThe birds and bees have joined us from the flowers and trees you find them at Macdonald's an champagne bars lapping up our left overs, they'll hardly be floaty lite on the breeze after feasting on our fat fantastic sleaze . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
LIAR
January 14, 2023 21:45 - 2 minutes - 2.2 MBEvery night I usually say to the woman in my little local shop what has happened in your life today ? she usually replies by saying oh not much when I always say to her please you can lie tell me something of interest but she never does. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
LIE
January 14, 2023 21:45 - 2 minutes - 2.39 MBEvery night I usually say to the woman in my little local shop what has happened in your life today ? she usually replies by saying oh not much when I always say to her please you can lie tell me something of interest but she never does. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
THE SEX TRADE
December 12, 2022 08:56 - 2 minutes - 2.13 MBProstitution 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 cigarettes booze and porn for hundreds of years they're all narcotics and 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: ht...
TATTOO YOU
December 11, 2022 09:39 - 3 minutes - 2.82 MBWhat was once a stamp for the tramp or cut of a criminal class is now adorning the faces and physique of aristocrat royalty and supermodel chic . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
MAFIA MAN
November 25, 2022 20:14 - 2 minutes - 2.45 MBA song wrote about a mafia boss who was born in Le panier Marseille the last bastion of Beelzebub , he 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 all rights reserved . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
🌈SALVATION
November 11, 2022 19:39 - 2 minutes - 2.91 MBA little tune i wrote for James who's very devout in his religion each Sunday we usually have a long discussion with him trying to convert me to his Christianity and me remaining with my humble hallowed humanity both of us respectful of each others theistic thoughts. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
🌟🌟EULOGY🌟🌟
November 10, 2022 20:07 - 1 minute - 1.83 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://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
🌟🌟STARGATE🌟🌟
November 10, 2022 19:51 - 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://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message