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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MR MERCANTILE
September 29, 2022 20:40 - 1 minute - 1.16 MBA 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
THE BEE'S KNEES
September 29, 2022 09:36 - 1 minute - 1.76 MBThe birds and bees have now joined us descending from the flowers and trees you find them at MacDonalds or 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
NINA
September 28, 2022 18:05 - 2 minutes - 2.66 MBA song for Nina If I should compare thee to a wood land tree. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
COVID-19
September 27, 2022 08:09 - 2 minutes - 1.29 MBOur fixation with fear is definitely here we're living like mendicant monk our decadent cafe latte lifestyles are all defunct , this virus hangs about us like the prophecy of Macbeth a new strain of black death this damnable covid-19 has killed what was once a hedonistic dream . Project fear is all we hear bombarded constantly into our ear, we've become farmed fish the human hen all crushed together into purgatory pen pellet fed by auntie Bettie and uncle Ben . --- Send in a voice...
VOODOO
September 22, 2022 08:34 - 3 minutes - 2.9 MBThe 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 traits 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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
SUPERTRAMP
August 29, 2022 09:13 - 2 minutes - 1.04 MBThis is a song I wrote for supertramp a friend who became homeless through drink one of the Montpellier mice , our band of bonhomie brothers who lived with such reckless abandonment to the stage where some would drink your bathroom cabinet dry aftershave aperitifs and cough medicine cognacs all round. Three days a week I take a coffee with the alcoholics I wrote this song whilst looking across at a homeless person living in a doorway of an abandoned gallery and think how fragile we are . All ...
BRAVEHEART
August 25, 2022 17:51 - 1 minute - 1.72 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://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
THE SOUL
August 23, 2022 21:10 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBThe ghost in our mortal machine is like a spiritual symbiotic twin that shares in our secular sin, silently and secretly watching from within it tracks us from womb to tomb an then becomes god's witness to give evidence against us in our celestial court room . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
THE SOUL CATCHER
August 23, 2022 21:10 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBThe ghost in our mortal machine is like a spiritual symbiotic twin that shares in our secular sin, silently and secretly watching from within it tracks us from womb to tomb an then becomes god's witness to give evidence against us in our celestial court room . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
GRANDFATHER
August 22, 2022 11:02 - 2 minutes - 2.01 MBGrandfathers are like old sentinels that stand guard over us in our early infant years , stolid as grandfather clocks their old heavy hearts pendulum their rhythm of life into our new born ears, a mortal metronome that keeps a steady beat to the timpani of our tiny feet. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
MAYDAY
July 18, 2022 15:11 - 2 minutes - 2.64 MBA song I wrote for my goddaughters birthday it's done through the eyes of a mayfly due to her being born on the 1st of may I was trying to tell her live everyday as if it be her last. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
THE FRUITARIAN FUNDAMENTALIST
July 16, 2022 21:38 - 14 minutes - 13.6 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...
EMANCIPATION
July 16, 2022 21:38 - 14 minutes - 13.6 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://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
FANTASTIC PLASTIC
July 06, 2022 09:08 - 2 minutes - 2.12 MBThis is a song i wrote about the catastrophic creations cause through having too much cosmetic surgery leaving so many a patient in the perpetual state of a reconstructive purgatory the surgeons are called the picasso's of the plastique, well they certainly end up with a foot an mouth or a tongue-in-cheek , they sculpture and scalpel at something that once started out as the face of the fantastic but by the final phase come cut you're left with a gargoyle freak. All rights reserved. --- Se...
THE BOOZE BROTHERS
July 06, 2022 03:44 - 3 minutes - 33.7 MBThe booze has dammed the soul of many a Keltic kin once upon a life time ago we were the Gunga Din. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
SUFFRAGETTE
July 05, 2022 12:24 - 3 minutes - 3.18 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 , 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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
Suffragette
July 05, 2022 12:24 - 3 minutes - 3.18 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 , 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
FUDGE FONDUE
July 05, 2022 05:21 - 2 minutes - 3 MBA song I wrote whilst looking 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 some khaki olive coloured bread or maybe a DNA glue that resembles a fudge fondue . All rights reserved --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
LEASE LEND
July 04, 2022 18:21 - 1 minute - 1.69 MBI wrote this little ditty after listening to a dear friend who's a lay preacher telling me that i may not be entering into the kingdom of heaven , i answered by stating that i did not want to go to heaven and he asked why surprised stating did i want to go to hell ? , i mentioned i would be quite happy to remain in limbo or purgatory rather than enter into the either where billions upon billions of souls from our past bitter waring human beings would be residing ; after experiencing the enorm...
THE LONG LOST FRIEND
July 04, 2022 18:21 - 1 minute - 1.69 MBI wrote this little ditty after listening to a dear friend who's a lay preacher telling me that i may not be entering into the kingdom of heaven , i answered by stating that i did not want to go to heaven and he asked why surprised stating did i want to go to hell ? , i mentioned i would be quite happy to remain in limbo or purgatory rather than enter into the either where billions upon billions of souls from our past bitter waring human beings would be residing ; after experiencing the enor...
MUSTANG MAN
July 04, 2022 12:50 - 2 minutes - 2 MBA song I wrote for Big 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 . All rights reserved --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
ELVIS
July 03, 2022 10:31 - 4 minutes - 4.56 MBA song I wrote about the king of rock and roll it's done in the fifties crooning style . He was born into extreme poverty raised in a shotgun shack but managed not only to break out of but also to attack the musical apartheid of America 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
A SONG FOR SUPERTRAMP
July 02, 2022 12:36 - 2 minutes - 2.23 MBThis is a song I wrote for supertramp a friend who became homeless through drink one of the Montpellier mice , our band of bonhomie brothers who lived with such reckless abandonment to the stage where some would drink your bathroom cabinet dry aftershave aperitifs and cough medicine cognacs all round. Three days a week I take a coffee with the alcoholics I wrote this song whilst looking across at a homeless person living in a doorway of an abandoned gallery and think how fragile we are . All ...
ROCKING TO WOKING
July 02, 2022 08:30 - 2 minutes - 2 MBA short song I wrote 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 . All rights reserved --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
LADY KILLER
July 01, 2022 20:01 - 3 minutes - 2.9 MBA song I wrote for a friend of mine who's charismatic appeal with women is so legendary that it led to him receiving a pseudonym of The Lady Killer. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
THE LADY KILLER
July 01, 2022 20:01 - 3 minutes - 2.9 MBA song I wrote for a friend of mine who's charismatic appeal with women is so legendary that it led to him receiving a pseudonym of The Lady Killer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
FEMME FATALE
July 01, 2022 11:03 - 2 minutes - 32.4 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
D I Y
July 01, 2022 08:35 - 3 minutes - 2.98 MBA short song about Buying 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
CATS
June 29, 2022 05:24 - 11 minutes - 10.5 MBA humorous sketch about two cats and a cowered based on real life events. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
SISTER SIRI
June 26, 2022 21:52 - 3 minutes - 1.72 MBA short ditty written for the god Google children who now speak in fluent geek , They say that the earth shell will belong to the meek I think they might mean the. "GEEK " --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
THE HIGHWAY TO HELL
June 24, 2022 19:34 - 3 minutes - 1.55 MBA short song I wrote whilst trapped in rush hour on the M25 you may hear a few cars zooming past forgive the quality , its certainly a highway to hell and your brain boils in its crab faced shell; at night it turns into a Cannon Ball Run a hundred and seventeen miles of MAD MAX fun with motor cycles screaming past like something out of the movie TOP GUN. I say if there's anyone out there with good musical ability who would care to lend me a hand with these songs please give me a email as you ...
HELL'S ANGELS
June 22, 2022 08:23 - 1 minute - 1.8 MBThe Belles Angels a song I wrote for a bunch of hell raising Harrogate girls all leather and lace they murdered every midnight hour slaking an slaughtering sobriety , to all those super sexy Ladies college girls I say God bless you . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
NINJA GIRL
June 19, 2022 18:01 - 3 minutes - 2.92 MBA song I wrote for Nina our 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
PARADISO
June 15, 2022 06:43 - 53 seconds - 851 KBI was having breakfast from a cheap cafe overlooking a piece of small purgatory where a young woman was living on the street under an umbrella in the shop doorway when suddenly she awoke relieved herself on a blue bucket and threw it into the street and then began begging from the passing early morning trade whilst I ate blue berries even though at the moment I am in poverty earning very little money there is always someone to let me know that am in paradise compared to them. --- Send in a...
ANGELINE
June 08, 2022 20:33 - 3 minutes - 2.88 MBBeware Kelts carrying potheen that Irish moonshine can certainly leave you for dead I fell in love with an Irish girl in Montpellier France who brewed her own mountain dew the first time I tried it my legs faltered and I sleep in a corridor of a hotel unable to make it back to my bed. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
THE SOUL CAGE
June 05, 2022 10:13 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBThe ghost in our mortal machine is like a spiritual symbiotic twin that collaborative companion that shares our secular sin so silently from within accompanying us from a womb to the tomb an then ultimately giving evidence at our final doom . software one day maybe so sensitive and bio hybridized to our DNA that it could just become our very own soul cage I almost feel as though my computer tech is reading my mind in some sort of strange tech telepathy they were recently saying that the clone...
AULD LANG SYNE
May 23, 2022 12:50 - 3 minutes - 3.03 MBA song I wrote today after seeing an old Keltic companion I haven't seen for a decade a true blue eyed raven headed Bretagne . The Romans drove them to the furthest reaches of the kingdom so did Edward long shanks hammer of the scots who also stole their ancient kings destiny stone and put it under his own throne Then By the act of supremacy Henry VIII made himself a god figure to rule over all kingdoms , and so you can understand by what they did why the Keltic people feel quite a mistrust...
LOVE'S A FOOL
May 21, 2022 17:02 - 2 minutes - 2.45 MBA cynical love song . My Family members were 1920s dyed-in-the-wool Yorkshiremen who believed that love be measured in pounds Shillings and pence and behind the white picket fence was a work house specially built to keep wain and wence who had a value similar to that of blood stock and foul , children being merely chattels without soul . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
THE KIT-KAT CLUB
May 17, 2022 15:42 - 25 minutes - 24 MBA short story based upon real life events of my childhood at the time they felt terrifying but now looking back they are the source of amusement for writing. Blue bloods are quite simply mad !! , they treat normal reality as an inconvenient triviality , rules to them don't exist and the rest of 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-richards...
SISTER SIRI
May 15, 2022 11:22 - 4 minutes - 4.24 MBA short ditty written for the god children who now speak in fluent geek and worship God Google , They say that the earth will belong to the meek I think they might mean the "GEEK --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
SPECIAL BREW
May 09, 2022 12:30 - 2 minutes - 2.48 MBWe used to be such bonhomie brothers in revelry now like ghosts of the good Life we haunt past each other in the street averting a guilty gaze towards one anothers feet , the spirits and spectres have long since been exorcised by the big dry of sobriety which has turned us all into rational respectable members of society ; today we don't strut so proud or shout too loud , we just shuffle past with eyes cowed and heads bowed. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5...
SONG FOR JO
May 06, 2022 17:31 - 2 minutes - 2.6 MBA song I wrote for a crazy young girl who's beauty could have caused Aphrodite to scream a blue rage of jealously and it was fairly obvious to see her maker man was OCD and once you're under her spell you just can't break free . all rights reserved. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
A VIRGIN DEATH
May 03, 2022 13:26 - 1 minute - 1.4 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 a little pox would have been the least of their worries . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
THE TRAMP
May 02, 2022 14:09 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBA short story based on real life events when I first ever traveled abroad to France and we lived like tramps on the street washing in fountains stealing food from shops as vagrants and vagabonds until somebody came up with a great idea of putting together the tramps brigade who lived on the swamp in cap d'age the next thing we were all assigned duties and discipline --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
GOOD FRIDAY
May 02, 2022 13:28 - 18 minutes - 17.4 MBA short story about crazy maniacs who shared space and spilt blood with me , you should never really put three bisexuals and an asexual under one roof especially if one pushes everything and everyone to the limit of their patience. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
SCOTCH BROTH
April 30, 2022 10:50 - 2 minutes - 1.89 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://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
A SECOND HAND LOVE
April 21, 2022 11:04 - 2 minutes - 2.48 MBAs you get older looking for love is similar to rummaging through a scrap yard come jumble sale you sift an shake through the worn torn fragile and fail usually to no avail things are stretched 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://an...
STALIN
April 18, 2022 19:19 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBA short humorous story I wrote about a man who was carrying a vicarious redemption on behalf of something else a burdensome task which was only relinquished by his death where upon he was given the cold cruel truth by his absent minded time lord who tries to make amends but far too late . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
THE CAT FLAP
April 11, 2022 18:08 - 11 minutes - 10.5 MBA humorous sketch about two cats and a cowered based on real life events. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
M' ALICE IN THUNDERLAND
April 10, 2022 08:28 - 2 minutes - 2.24 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...