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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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🌟🌟LUST🌟🌟

November 10, 2022 10:50 - 1 minute - 1.31 MB

A 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://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

🌟🌟JAGUAR🌟🌟

November 09, 2022 20:22 - 1 minute - 1.8 MB

In the swinging sixties it was to own a car especially a Lady Gaga jaguar, then you were truly nouveau rich a make believe millionaire the fake faux movie stars . Members of my family and their friends were just this usually their balloons burst into bankruptcy debt and divorce, too much money in young hands is like mixing desire with hell fire . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

JAGUAR

November 09, 2022 20:22 - 1 minute - 1.8 MB

To own a car in the swinging sixties was extremely rare especially for young people but if it was a jaguar then you were the nouveau rich make believe millionaires the fake faux movie stars . Members of my family and their friends were just this usually their balloons burst into bankruptcy debt and divorce, too much money in young hands its like mixing desire together with hell fire . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

🌈SUFFRAGETTE

November 08, 2022 21:13 - 6 minutes - 5.85 MB

With 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 , legions of suffragettes issued their declaration of war against the centuries of bigotry slaughtering dead the fat old British empires dinosaur . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

🌈NIGELLA

November 08, 2022 19:50 - 1 minute - 1.74 MB

A musing about a greasy spoon girl Nigella from the Favela , If cook's could kill then this greasa girl is definitely licensed to grill !! she's always standing by ever ready to kill your sense of humour with sarcasm or ease the stomach acid with her peppermint pill. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

🌟NIGELLA🌟

November 08, 2022 19:50 - 1 minute - 1.74 MB

A musing about a greasy spoon girl Nigella from the Favela , If cook's could kill then this greasa girl is definitely licensed to grill !! she's always standing by ever ready to kill your sense of humour with sarcasm or ease the stomach acid with her peppermint pill. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

🌟🌟NIGELLA🌟🌟

November 08, 2022 19:50 - 1 minute - 1.74 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://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

🌈THE MORTAL MACHINE

November 07, 2022 22:49 - 5 minutes - 4.75 MB

A poem I wrote for my father who was born in 1926 and now similar to an old model T ford motor car he needs constant technicians and tinkering and maintenance to keep him up and running . I've done my best to copy his gasping Yorkshire speech he was born in the days of horse and cart starting work at the age of twelve down in the steel mills on the east side of steel river , he mentioned that not only were the steel dreys pulled by the huge shire horses but during the second world they also u...

⭐THE MORTAL MACHINE⭐

November 07, 2022 22:49 - 5 minutes - 4.75 MB

A poem I wrote for my father who was born in 1926 and now similar to an old model T ford motor car he needs constant technicians and tinkering and maintenance to keep him up and running . I've done my best to copy his gasping Yorkshire speech he was born in the days of horse and cart starting work at the age of twelve down in the steel mills on the east side of steel river , he mentioned that not only were the steel dreys pulled by the huge shire horses but during the second world they also u...

⭐REVOLUTION⭐

November 07, 2022 21:52 - 2 minutes - 2.33 MB

Sooner than later we as a species will have to address our crazy situation of over population , due to land perishing and pollution in the final stages we may very well end up as refugees building our own blood lined barricades of revolution . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

🌈REVOLUTION

November 07, 2022 21:52 - 2 minutes - 2.33 MB

Sooner than later we as a species will have to address our crazy situation of over population , due to land perishing and pollution in the final stages we may very well end up as refugees building our own blood lined barricades of revolution . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

🌟SECOND HAND LOVE🌟

November 07, 2022 20:34 - 1 minute - 1.85 MB

As you get older looking for love is similar to rummaging through a jumble sale you sift an shake through the worn an torn fragile and fail usually to no avail things are stretched completely out of shape almost befitting the proverbial grey whale instead of the once sleek male or female then suddenly there it is the right one for you the little bunny rabbits bob tail an together you dovetail perfectly as you'd been handmade by thomas chippendale . --- Send in a voice message: https://anch...

🌈SECOND HAND LOVE

November 07, 2022 20:34 - 1 minute - 1.85 MB

As you get older looking for love is similar to rummaging through a jumble sale you sift an shake through the worn an torn fragile and fail usually to no avail things are stretched completely out of shape almost befitting the proverbial grey whale instead of the once sleek male or female then suddenly there it is the right one for you the little bunny rabbits bob tail an together you dovetail perfectly as you'd been handmade by thomas chippendale . --- Send in a voice message: https://anch...

🌈GLADIATOR

November 07, 2022 18:34 - 3 minutes - 3.64 MB

After the third slave uprising was crushed by Rome a hundred thousand men lay dead on the battlefield and another six thousand slaves were crucified along the appian way and left to rot as carrion crow fodder they were there as a lesson for anyone else minded to rebel against the might of Rome ; the appian way at that time was the main freeway into the capital city . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

🌟GLADIATOR🌟

November 07, 2022 18:34 - 3 minutes - 3.64 MB

After the third slave uprising was crushed by Rome a hundred thousand men lay dead on the battlefield and another six thousand slaves were crucified along the appian way and left to rot as carrion crow fodder they were there as a lesson for anyone else minded to rebel against the might of Rome ; the appian way at that time was the main freeway into the capital city . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

GLADIATOR

November 07, 2022 18:34 - 3 minutes - 3.64 MB

After the third slave uprising was crushed by Rome a hundred thousand men lay dead on the battlefield and another six thousand slaves were crucified along the appian way and left to rot as carrion crow fodder they were there as a lesson for anyone else minded to rebel against the might of Rome ; the appian way at that time was the main freeway into the capital city . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

🌟SAMSON🌟

November 07, 2022 16:32 - 1 minute - 1.86 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 sexual game . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

🌈SAMSON

November 07, 2022 16:32 - 1 minute - 1.86 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 sexual game . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

🌟🌟SAMSON🌟🌟

November 07, 2022 16:32 - 1 minute - 1.86 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 sexual game . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

🌈TATTOO YOU

November 07, 2022 13:25 - 3 minutes - 2.82 MB

What 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

🌟TATTOO YOU🌟

November 07, 2022 13:25 - 3 minutes - 2.82 MB

What 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

🌟🌟ENVY🌟🌟

November 07, 2022 07:12 - 2 minutes - 1.99 MB

The green eyed monster of sin is a secret schadenfreude which we keep hidden within usually it's only seen in children as they rival for survival and parental attention the lowly leftover instinct from our anthropic ascension ; however this terrible trait can also be witnessed late when the male asserts it's dominance in the procreation fate. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

🌈ENVY

November 07, 2022 07:12 - 2 minutes - 1.99 MB

The green eyed monster of sin that secret schadenfreude which we keep hidden away so deep within usually it's only seen in children as their rival for survival and parental attention the lowly leftover instinct of our anthropic ascension , however this terrible trait can also be witnessed later in our lives when when the male begins to assert it's dominance as the procreation stage arrives . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

🌟ENVY🌟

November 07, 2022 07:12 - 2 minutes - 1.99 MB

The green eyed monster of sin that secret schadenfreude which we keep hidden away so deep within usually it's only seen in children as their rival for survival and parental attention the lowly leftover instinct of our anthropic ascension , however this terrible trait can also be witnessed later in our lives when when the male begins to assert it's dominance as the procreation stage arrives . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

🌟BLOOD MOON🌟

November 06, 2022 22:32 - 3 minutes - 3.11 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://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

🌈BLOOD MOON

November 06, 2022 22:32 - 3 minutes - 3.11 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://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

BLOOD MOON

November 06, 2022 22:32 - 3 minutes - 3.11 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://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

🌟🌟WAR🌟🌟

November 06, 2022 18:10 - 1 minute - 1.78 MB

A short sketch written about a Christmas bash spent with my old deaf dementia ridden relatives , cooking programs and war movies with talking between both parents and TV channels can become very exasperating. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

🌈WAR

November 06, 2022 18:10 - 1 minute - 1.78 MB

A short sketch written about a Christmas bash spent with my old deaf dementia ridden relatives , cooking programs and war movies with talking between both parents and TV channels can become exasperating. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

🌈HELLS ANGELS

November 06, 2022 17:17 - 1 minute - 1.63 MB

The Belles Angels a poem I wrote for a bunch of hell raising Harrogate girls all leather and lace they murdered every midnight hour slaking an slaughtering sobriety swapping saliva an syphilis , to all those super sexy Ladies college girls I say God bless to you all . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

🌟🌟VICE🌟🌟

November 04, 2022 20:58 - 2 minutes - 2.13 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 took control of this sexual slavery let's face facts  the chancellor's been selling cigarettes and booze for hundred years they're both narcotics so don't allow the criminals any vice take over all their operations save these girls any more torture legalise their profession too . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

VICE

November 04, 2022 20:58 - 2 minutes - 2.13 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 took control of this sexual slavery let's face facts  the chancellor's been selling cigarettes and booze for hundred years they're both narcotics so don't allow the criminals any vice take over all their operations save these girls any more torture legalise their profession too . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

LOONEY TOON

November 04, 2022 17:03 - 1 minute - 1.89 MB

A short song I wrote for my god children who love to alternate things to risky rhetoric especially in cartoons and almost all things their word play being a speciality children always push the boundaries of imagination and give chancy candid connotations as if they're the most natural notions of naivety. . , all rights reserved. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

🌟🌟HELL GIRL🌟🌟

November 02, 2022 20:10 - 2 minutes - 2.1 MB

A musing for Lily's tenth birthday with leather jacket to match my own design of cause -- mother not too keen I have a sneeking suspicion she'd like one too by ten years of age kids of today are silicone valley sage a decade old an they're ready to fledge the family fold far too cool for school they just let their TiK ToK Rule !! . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

HELL GIRL !!

November 02, 2022 20:10 - 2 minutes - 2.1 MB

A musing for Lily's tenth birthday with leather jacket to match my own design of cause - mother not too keen I have a sneeking suspicion she'd like one too . By ten years of age kids of today are silicone valley sage a decade old an they're ready to fledge the family fold , far too cool for school they just let TiK ToK Rock and Rule !! . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

🌟O C D🌟

November 02, 2022 12:52 - 2 minutes - 2.49 MB

This is a musing I wrote after listening to my father who'd 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 its perhaps due to the cour d'esprit 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 realined to the measured metronome of the military kind in...

PROFUMO

November 01, 2022 22:10 - 3 minutes - 3.33 MB

In 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 the spy game 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 portrait ...

🌟🌟PROFUMO🌟🌟

November 01, 2022 22:10 - 3 minutes - 3.33 MB

In 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...

🌟🌟PRIDE🌟🌟

October 30, 2022 22:10 - 1 minute - 1.48 MB

A prick of our precious pride is all that's needed to derail and deride our sensibility into taking a walk back onto its wild side . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

SNAKE BITE

October 29, 2022 18:20 - 2 minutes - 2.55 MB

A song I wrote in the old music hall traditiion of two verse chorus which is similar to the church stanza chorus stanza chorus I've also sang it in the baritone barber shop of a beggers opera style like that of my father who born in 1925 still bursts into song similar to a Mississippi minstrel . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

WINE TASTING

October 29, 2022 08:14 - 1 minute - 2.01 MB

A musing about wine , If ever you're invited to a sommelier's soiree then you'll find that a lot of the wine tasting terminology sounds quite bizarre almost perverse at times a lot of the men sound as if pontificating about their ex lovers with phrases such as necking a couple of Frenchie's or being tanned across the tonsils, all leathered and meaty, smoking a chocolate cigar a fast finisher a cheeky sharpener foxy and flamboyant very strange but they all have real meaning that the sommelier ...

🌟🌟SIRI🌟🌟

October 28, 2022 21:20 - 1 minute - 1.48 MB

When you turn on a virtual assistant Alexa , Siri or Cortana , for the first time even as an adult but especially as a child it feels like You've turned into a God or Goddess of wisdom children will almost certainly give up on any parental guidance and move into a cyber space or a Walt Disney crack house world . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

THE MORTAL

October 24, 2022 20:01 - 2 minutes - 2.79 MB

A little tune I wrote from a poem using the as an assimilation to getting old with various parts of our anatomy wearing out with the passage of time. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

JEANINE

October 24, 2022 11:42 - 3 minutes - 3.44 MB

A song I wrote for Nina in lock down with covid and the kids a little soft swing Whilst you do your thing hell what else do you do whilst in Morrisons café. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

J F K

October 18, 2022 17:31 - 2 minutes - 2.66 MB

A song about emperors and kings who believe themselves to be the devine demagoguery If a devine deity did arrive on planet earth these mobsters and megalomaniacs would see them quickly murdered . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message

A FEUDAL FEW

October 11, 2022 17:28 - 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 nationality or creed which the British empire managed to achieve for a few hundred years each school had peculiar traits, Eton for instance use to be famous for its flage fridays where in the library boys would be placed onto a specially constructed birching block and duly thrashed ....

BREXITEER

October 09, 2022 13:25 - 2 minutes - 2.82 MB

The 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

VIRGIN

October 06, 2022 16:44 - 1 minute - 1.23 MB

A 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://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

OXFAM

October 04, 2022 12:32 - 2 minutes - 2.8 MB

The 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 ...

MR MERCANTILE

September 29, 2022 20:40 - 1 minute - 1.16 MB

A short poem written about the money monsters in the city of London thay feed the needy to the greedy down on London's squire mile all the while with their wry smirk and smile hence why this rapacious reptile is called Mr mercantile . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message