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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JEANNINE
April 07, 2022 12:53 - 2 minutes - 2.09 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://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
EXODUS
March 06, 2022 13:27 - 1 minute - 1.77 MBWe watch the bloodstained refugee whilst sitting at home drinking wine and eating a takeaway TV , What is happening in Ukraine is yet another terrible tragedy President Putin and America with allies recently reduced the middle East to ruins displacing tens of millions of refugees another tyrannical war game any of us with half a brain can see that it's the blood of the innocent yet again that is spilling down the drain !! . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5...
THE HANGOVER
February 23, 2022 18:05 - 2 minutes - 2.24 MBYour whale song dream turns out to be the huge squealing brake drums of a distant trash truck it's sound being distorted by the wind gusting through ginnel and gantry ; thrown dustbin lids cymbal into the sobriety of your very unwanted monday morning anxiety . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
LILY'S BIRTHDAY TUNE
February 21, 2022 15:37 - 1 minute - 546 KBA little ditty I wrote for lillian's birthday born on the first of may now aged nine . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
SPY GIRL
February 17, 2022 19:12 - 3 minutes - 3.2 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...
SEXUALITY
February 09, 2022 12:08 - 1 minute - 1.85 MBFor someone who's fifty something plus tax and sexually straight it's quite hard to understand all the new sexual genderisations that are now taking place but as they always say let love rule . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
THE MISER'S DAUGHTER
February 07, 2022 18:23 - 1 minute - 1.7 MBA person who's cranial capacity is cast by abject austerity remains of that mind set even though they may elevate themselves to a privileged position of prosperity it will always have the mentality of a miser . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
February 04, 2022 16:34 - 3 minutes - 3.12 MBLiving our lives as nocturnal belfry bats fuelled by booze and nose gay narcotics we'd flutter back at dawn after sharing shrink spiel and serotonin Smarties at all the high octane piss and powder parties in H-gate is there any wonder that we all became neurotic suffering from nervous breakdowns and depression the Spanish au pairs around at that time always sounded and sang similar to Carmen Miaranda rolling their R's like a pair of castanets . All rights reserved --- Send in a voice messa...
TRUTH
January 30, 2022 15:04 - 3 minutes - 3.46 MBThe 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://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
THE SILICONE STASI
January 30, 2022 15:04 - 3 minutes - 3.46 MBThe 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://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
MCQUEEN
December 24, 2021 16:58 - 6 minutes - 6.13 MBSteve McQueen once said he came from the gutter and that he'd not done bad for an orphan boy . Every year he used to go back to the borstal where the bungalow boys beat him back into line he became head boy there then after a fifty different jobs from lumberjack, getaway driver, pimp and gunrunner etc he finally found his niche a Co star James garner called him crazy McQueen, Bruce Lee said he was the toughest son of a gun, and Robert Vaughn admitted he had what you can never train pure natur...
THE LONG DROP
December 21, 2021 21:43 - 2 minutes - 1.97 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://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
ARTIST
December 07, 2021 22:26 - 2 minutes - 2.06 MBA musing about an artist girlfriend from Barcelona Spain , I couldn't understand what she ment by being a spiritual suffragette , sacrificing love and life for her art , I thought her pompous and pretentious born by the silver spoon now after months of lockdown living as a mendicant monk in my own garrett cell of solitary confinement I'm beginning to understand her state of mind . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
SONG FOR JOJO
December 01, 2021 08:27 - 1 minute - 1.82 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://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
THE BELLES ANGELS
November 18, 2021 22:03 - 2 minutes - 1.92 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 . All rights reserved --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
SUSPICIOUS MINDS
October 27, 2021 18:03 - 1 minute - 1.08 MBTwo Haiku Poems. 1 Suspicious minds. 2 Blood river . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
GRAND PRIX
October 27, 2021 18:02 - 2 minutes - 1.91 MBSome people have nerves of real titanium steel fear to them never comes near , where hells angels would fear to tread they run straight in on a code red . Recently I was looking over the shoulder of a petrified passenger I noticed the driver was cruising along at 127 miles per hour then he turned and told his terrified co pilot to "stop jumping you're scaring me to death ". --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
THE RED WINE IDEALIST
October 27, 2021 18:02 - 57 seconds - 907 KBI asked of a dear priestly friend of mine about the catholic communion red wine stating "if it be the blood of Christ how come it strengthens the sinners and weakens the saints" ? he was quite taken aback but then again both of us were rafting on the stuff at the time. The second haiku poem is about a quotation from George Carlin that my artist campanion mentioned to me his quotation or, that cynics are disappointed idealists, I retorted back to save a smattering of honour telling him that id...
PERDITION
October 26, 2021 17:15 - 2 minutes - 1.86 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://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
SWEET AND SOUR
October 26, 2021 17:13 - 1 minute - 1.48 MBA little improvised piece of music composed by myself onto a mobile phone excuse my old piano it's seen better days and so have i , using blues and Chinese fourths hence the title sweet and sour. All rights reserved --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
CHIQUITITA
October 25, 2021 15:05 - 1 minute - 1.38 MBA little ditty for Unis the Philipino irish girl who worked at the Crown Hotel Harrogate she blew the minds and trousers of all male pensioners in the rotary club . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
THE KILLING OF MRS MAPLE
October 25, 2021 06:12 - 1 minute - 1.7 MBA short poem written about the savagery Of humans towards mother nature scaring her face with our callous hands of cruelty but she may shake us as unwanted fleas into infinity and once again reclaim her lost beauty . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
THE TAXI-DERMIST
October 20, 2021 14:13 - 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://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
BISCUITS IN THE RAIN
September 28, 2021 06:41 - 1 minute - 1.33 MBA poem about an artist girlfriend who's Spanish African temperament could turn from being a soft mistral breeze that gently caresses into violent blood raining Scirocco that tares the blossom from the trees slamming doors and smashing flower pots and hearts into pieces washing them down the drain like biscuits in the rain . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
DEGREES
August 16, 2021 11:18 - 2 minutes - 1.94 MBA poem about the complacency of our society which is tantamount to exuding a kind of trendy triviality towards the forth coming temperature rise of two degrees you'd think we were talking about the arrival of a couple of cream teas not the apocalyptic destruction of our human kind . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
TWO CREAM TEAS
August 16, 2021 11:18 - 2 minutes - 1.94 MBA poem about the complacency of our society which is tantamount to exuding a kind of trendy triviality towards the forth coming temperature rise of two degrees you'd think we were talking about the arrival of a couple more cream teas not the apocalyptic destruction of our human kind . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
GRETA THUNBERG
July 08, 2021 17:11 - 2 minutes - 1.97 MBA musing about working with the ever so rich who seem to think themselves so aloof and far above the necessity of saving the planet due to flying high above the clouds in their expensive Lear jets or sailing the islands using thousands of gallons of aviation fuel without any regrets. Never has so much been used by so few . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
THE GUNPOWDER PLOT
July 04, 2021 19:49 - 3 minutes - 3.06 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...
VIRGIN
June 11, 2021 17:44 - 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
MAFIA
April 24, 2021 19:30 - 1 minute - 1.82 MBA poem written 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 . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
A COLD CADAVER STARE
April 10, 2021 14:11 - 2 minutes - 2.22 MBUpon seeing a cold cadaver staring back people tread in fear of the dead circling round as though it be some spectral apparition of dread . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
RAINBOWS END
April 07, 2021 21:34 - 3 minutes - 2.81 MBSetting 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 with your thumb and forefinger for transportation Hitchhiking thousands of miles around the globe taking years and years almost a decade to the point where many of us became wonderless but quite skilled in the art of conversation . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
THE MUSTANG
April 01, 2021 09:07 - 2 minutes - 2.26 MBMustang men in middle aged look like faint mirages of their former selves , once they were war faced warriors now they're warfarin worries , they use to be part of the night fever disco scene today they're scared of cottage pie and cholesterol cream . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
Love Lost
March 29, 2021 19:07 - 1 minute - 1.09 MBA 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 hate . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
The Hangover
March 22, 2021 09:39 - 2 minutes - 2.24 MBYour whale song dream turns out to be the huge squealing brake drums of a distant trash truck it's sound being distorted by the wind gusting through ginnel and gantry ; thrown dustbin lids cymbal into the sobriety of your very unwanted monday morning anxiety . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
THE PROMISED LAND
March 19, 2021 08:42 - 3 minutes - 2.81 MBA poem for Katy on the reception desk who drives ever man crazy by giving them a glimpse of the promised land only then to watch gleefully as they walk into the paradise of her quicksand . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
A Promised Land
March 19, 2021 08:42 - 3 minutes - 2.81 MBA poem for Katy on the reception desk who drives ever man crazy by giving them a glimpse of the promised land only then to watch gleefully as they walk into the paradise of her quicksand . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
THE LADYKILLER
February 23, 2021 19:44 - 2 minutes - 1.88 MBA poem for a dear friend of mine who's charismatic appeal with women is so legendary that it led to him receiving a pseudonym of The Valley Drive Lady Killer even whilst laid on the surgeons slab awaiting a serious operation he was still able to twirl the attention of a young nurse who was at the time wet shaving him of all body hair ready for his open heart surgery. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
LADY KILLER
February 23, 2021 19:44 - 1 minute - 1.78 MBA poem for a dear friend of mine who's charismatic appeal with women is so legendary that it led to him receiving a pseudonym of The Valley Drive Lady Killer even whilst laid on the surgeons slab awaiting a serious operation he was still able to twirl the attention of a young nurse who was at the time wet shaving him of all body hair ready for open heart surgery. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
THE LADYKILLERS
February 23, 2021 19:44 - 2 minutes - 1.88 MBA poem for a dear friend of mine who's charismatic appeal with women is so legendary that it led to him receiving a pseudonym of The Valley Drive Lady Killer even whilst laid on the surgeons slab awaiting a serious operation he was still able to twirl the attention of a young nurse who was at the time wet shaving him of all body hair ready for his open heart surgery. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
THE LADYKILLERS
February 23, 2021 19:44 - 1 minute - 1.78 MBA poem for a dear friend of mine who's charismatic appeal with women is so legendary that it led to him receiving a pseudonym of The Valley Drive Lady Killer even whilst laid on the surgeons slab awaiting a serious operation he was still able to twirl the attention of a young nurse who was at the time wet shaving him of all body hair ready for open heart surgery. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
THE LADY-KILLER
February 23, 2021 19:44 - 1 minute - 1.78 MBA poem for a dear friend of mine who's charismatic appeal with women is so legendary that it led to him receiving a pseudonym of The Valley Drive Lady Killer even whilst laid on the surgeons slab awaiting a serious operation he was still able to twirl the attention of a young nurse who was at the time wet shaving him of all body hair ready for open heart surgery. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
A WHIPPING BOY
February 04, 2021 08:35 - 2 minutes - 1.91 MBA poem about emperors and kings who believe themselves to be devine demagoguery , even as children they had whipping boys to take their punishment and guilt , Sacred scapegoats for them to slaughter ; If a devine deity did arrive on planet earth these mobsters and megalomaniacs would see them quickly murdered . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
MANCHESTER
January 20, 2021 23:02 - 2 minutes - 1.99 MBBig Manchester Pete the hardest looking man you were ever likely to meet his face was made for trick a 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://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
FATE
January 04, 2021 15:14 - 1 minute - 1.66 MBThe 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://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
LOVE LOCKETS .
December 15, 2020 06:49 - 2 minutes - 2.2 MBThinking back to my parents divorce how the lovers fate changes with the opening and closing of Eden's garden gate either becoming a the land of milk and honey or a scorched earth where nothing grows except the barbed thorns of hate . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
JEANINE
November 28, 2020 20:38 - 2 minutes - 2.09 MBA poem written for my father who was born in 1926 and now similar to an old model T ford he needs 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 work 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 dreys pulled by the huge shire horses but during the second world war they also used the might of the elephant...
JANINE
November 28, 2020 20:38 - 2 minutes - 1.99 MBOur green dream karma Queen casts her svelt shadows over the obstinate boulder brained beast lighting her alternative pathway towards a spiritual sentient sanctuary . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
FEUDAL FEW
November 25, 2020 09:53 - 1 minute - 1.65 MBThe British boarding schools were without doubt what built the British Empire, anyone subjected to this kind of brutal cruelty or treatment could easily subjugate a sufferance over anyone else especially another nationality creed which the British empire managed to achieve for a few hundred years . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message
GRETA
November 13, 2020 17:46 - 2 minutes - 1.88 MBA musing about working with the ever so rich who seem to think themselves so aloof and far above the necessity of saving the planet due to them flying high above the clouds in their expensive Lear jets or sailing the islands using thousands of gallons of aviation fuel without any regrets, so much is used by so few in The pursuit of pampering their privileged ego's . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message