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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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SERMON OF A SQUIRREL

March 10, 2024 20:18 - 2 minutes - 1.91 MB

Covid 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've missed about our absence is the leftover Ben and Jerry's ice cream . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

GABRIEL.

March 10, 2024 17:32 - 1 minute - 1.17 MB

A poem for NENO who used to be a traveller with wings upon her feet up untill Gabriel gifting her a daughter with the same name as his immortal horn the beautiful Lily . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

HELL GIRL !!

March 09, 2024 16:49 - 2 minutes - 2.2 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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

MUSTANG MAN

March 09, 2024 07:40 - 2 minutes - 2.36 MB

Mustang men in middle aged look like 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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

OPERATION COVID

March 08, 2024 18:57 - 1 minute - 1.5 MB

A musing about the Boer war ,whilst tens of thousands were dying of disease and starvation because of lord kitchener's scorched earth policy he was heartbroken about losing his pet starling thank heavens he's not here to sort out the coronavirus . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

THE LAUGHING BREXITEER

March 08, 2024 13:13 - 1 minute - 1.31 MB

The Westminster war of brexit has split 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/ravenheart/message

SAMSON

March 08, 2024 10:22 - 2 minutes - 1.97 MB

The loss of a lion's mane is similar to that of a man's hair as it recedes they both become a little timid and tame loosing pride and prowess both these mammals are now out of the mating game . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

ROCKEFELLER

March 07, 2024 20:17 - 1 minute - 1.67 MB

A poem 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 there upon acquiring great weath still retained his beggar man roots and rhetoric. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

MACHO MAN

March 07, 2024 08:31 - 57 seconds - 915 KB

Twenty years ago it came as quite a shock when someone we knew became bisexual especially after they'd been such a lady killer and then became very much a maneater still what seemed a big squeal back then is now an every day done deal . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

LESBIAN MAN

March 05, 2024 17:07 - 1 minute - 1.61 MB

A poem about an angry old man who was released from his angst after he being given a course of oestrogen hormone therapy to combat prostate cancer freeing up his feminine side he's a much happier man now that he's let loose his lesbian libido . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

FRANKENSTEIN

March 05, 2024 10:32 - 2 minutes - 2.06 MB

My words may seem callous and cruel that's because they are taken from the comments emitted by the café clientele who share space with these poor disabled individuals By the grace of good fortune there walk we . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

THE BILL

March 04, 2024 20:50 - 1 minute - 1.82 MB

A musing about the private member's bills passed with British Parliamentary pomposity it sounds like a serious aural atrocity but it's usually diatribed by someone that's spieling through their own suppository . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

SANCTIMONIOUS STAN.

March 04, 2024 17:02 - 1 minute - 584 KB

A poem about a miserable neighbour called stan who once had everything a palace and a kingdom but then unfortunately he lost everything and was reduced to a normal man alas such a tragedy that he should hav't to fall amonst we the mere mortal clan . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

PAPARAZZI

March 03, 2024 19:20 - 2 minutes - 2.5 MB

They serve it up for breakfast all red and raw, The news papers land like a fry up of blood and gore , you need the stomach of a matador to swallow down the cover stories carved out by these carnivores. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

MERCANTILE

March 03, 2024 16:46 - 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 called Mr mercantile . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

MORTAL MACHINE

March 03, 2024 07:26 - 1 minute - 1.73 MB

A poem I wrote for my father, who was born in 1926 and is now similar to a motor car, needing constant tinkering to keep him up and running. I've done my best to capture his gasping Yorkshire accent. He was born in the days of horse and cart, starting work at the age of twelve in the steel mills on the east side of the iron river. He mentioned that not only were the steel drays pulled by the huge shire horses, but during the Second World War, they also used elephants from the zoo due to the...

MA FAT MATE

March 02, 2024 16:35 - 1 minute - 1.7 MB

A poem written about my rolly Polly fat flat mate who lost a massive amount of weight slimming down from 21 stones to 12 becoming ever so serious and slim I've taken his place by becoming fat and happy obviously you do become the company you keep . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

GENTLE GIANTS

March 02, 2024 06:56 - 4 minutes - 3.81 MB

It'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 a curtain death --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

MIDNIGHT THUNDER

March 01, 2024 19:19 - 1 minute - 1.48 MB

A poem about a very beautiful woman called Claudia who's powerful persona ricochete around us like a midnight thunder , on first meeting she would still and seduce ya with her silent stare of medusa . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

ENVY

March 01, 2024 13:03 - 54 seconds - 876 KB

A deadly sin this jade eyed Jekyll our secret  schadenfreude that hides within waiting to hatch out into its true reptilian skin . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

L S D

March 01, 2024 07:50 - 4 minutes - 3.86 MB

The 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 in the form of magic mushrooms so increasing hallucinogenic and conscious brain capability hence where the homo sapiens may have got their synaptic kick start from. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

STONEWALL

February 29, 2024 20:20 - 2 minutes - 2.14 MB

A poem I wrote to commemorate the courage of Christine the first transexual beauty queen who back in 1953 decided bravely to have her gender reassigned to its rightful sexuallity in order that she may be set free from the burden of having to live with her very unwanted masculinity, but it would be a long haul from the first roll of that snowball before the gay community finally made they're stand for equality at the Inn we now know as stonewall. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcast...

TYPHOON IN THE ROOM

February 29, 2024 12:10 - 1 minute - 1.56 MB

A 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 It...

BARKINGHAM PALACE

February 29, 2024 07:48 - 1 minute - 1.76 MB

Another eccentric sketch delving into the life of Thornton Harding Jr., an aristocrat with an intense passion for his pets. He bestows upon them the most peculiar names, like his dog, Greyfriars Warton Benson. It's worth noting that this canine companion is permitted to engage in all manner of activities, including lounging on his master's lap and taking the wheel of his car. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

PRECIOUS PRIDE

February 28, 2024 19:44 - 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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

BEE'S KNEES

February 28, 2024 07:49 - 1 minute - 1.76 MB

The birds and bees are leaving the flowers and trees to join us for the fast food tease lapping up our left overs they'll hardly be floaty lite on the breeze after eating our fast food sleaze. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

SACRED RAIN

February 27, 2024 15:47 - 59 seconds - 953 KB

A 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/ravenheart/message

D I Y

February 27, 2024 07:06 - 2 minutes - 2.14 MB

Buying power tools at the hardware store? well you truly may as well  arm yourself with a weapon of war and become yet another do it yourself casualty score , blood and gore body counts are much higher than in most modern theatres of war ! . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

TRUTH TRAINING

February 26, 2024 17:25 - 2 minutes - 2.37 MB

The 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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

REDEMPTION.

February 25, 2024 16:31 - 1 minute - 1.84 MB

Carrying vicarious redemption on behalf of someone else is a burdensome weight. The preacher's daughter still carries hers every moment of every day ;a beautiful, quiet soul who was given this sin substitution by her callous caretakers. Her atonement isn't due any time soon. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

TATTOO YOU

February 25, 2024 08:14 - 3 minutes - 2.82 MB

What was once a stamp for the tramp or cut of a criminal class its now adorning faces and physique of aristocrat royalty and even the supermodel chic . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

CIDER PARK

February 24, 2024 20:27 - 1 minute - 1.63 MB

Looking at some tramps in cider park I felt sorry for the poor starving pets as their masters swill down cider and they shivered in the cold , the musing is seen or spoken through a dog . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

SIRI

February 24, 2024 15:09 - 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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

BLUE BLOOD

February 23, 2024 19:44 - 3 minutes - 2.97 MB

Blue bloods are quite simply mad !! , they treat normal reality as an inconvenient triviality rules to them don't exist  and the rest of mortality are kept around as fluffers for their pansexuality. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

HANGOVER

February 23, 2024 15:48 - 2 minutes - 2.27 MB

A whale song dream turns out to be the squealing brake drums of a distant dust truck it's sound being distorted by the wind gusting through ginnel and garret thrown bin lids cymbal into that sensitivity sobriety announcing the arrival of your monday mornings anxiety. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

PAPARAZZI

February 23, 2024 11:28 - 1 minute - 1.71 MB

Every 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/ravenheart/message

NAME AND SHAME

February 23, 2024 08:38 - 1 minute - 850 KB

Contemplating the idea of giving your offspring a strong sounding name, something that will inspire them to aspire towards fortune and fame. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

THE GOD FATHER

February 22, 2024 20:11 - 3 minutes - 2.84 MB

A 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 ruling over France's under world for fifty years before being gunned down in Paris for an old corsican vendetta . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

NIGELLA

February 22, 2024 07:00 - 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 stomach acid with a peppermint pill. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

THE OLD COLONIAL.

February 21, 2024 17:23 - 1 minute - 1.86 MB

Old Colonials talk of empire its quite shocking how they used to think of human beings as nothing more than chattels not just the natives but also the white workers and soldiers such as my old father now 95 years of age he told me during his time in India just after the second world War whilst protecting the British Raj who looked upon him also as their SLAVE OF EMPIRE . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

MANEATER

February 21, 2024 12:21 - 2 minutes - 2.89 MB

Krystyna Skarbek was a Polish beauty queen, a countess, and the longest-serving spy in Churchill's SOE. With a life expectancy of 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, 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 she was due to fly out to get married...

DOOM IN THE ROOM

February 21, 2024 07:06 - 1 minute - 1.39 MB

The Doom in the room is an artist's quip for a muse what they don't realise is that there ego's are so burdensome to others and probably havt to be in order for them to achieve . Whilst living with an artist as their muse I was once painted with my own blood she thought it would be a wonderful contrast of colour the stark white canvas being my Anglo-Saxon skin and ones bright red blood being the paint very reminiscent of the old English flag . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcaste...

SCREAMING TOMATOES

February 20, 2024 21:22 - 1 minute - 1.77 MB

An English king's breakfast could  consist  of swine flesh, embryos , fungi ,congealed blood , kippers, herring's, pike , roach various birds venison, cockles , pilchards .    when thinking about the Buddhist belief of  reincarnation  wouldn't it be a devine justice  if these gargantuan gluttonous  came back  as screaming red faced tomatoes in a vegan salad . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

GRETA

February 20, 2024 13:54 - 2 minutes - 2.56 MB

Greta has an almost impossible sales pitch she's to demand that the incredibly rich dumped that expensive pieces of kitsch , they fly to the cop out climate meetings in their lear jets and show not the slightest hesitation of any regrets, her gargantuan glitch is to try to move these people towards the green dream of a beggars itch, but these dinosaurs who block destiny's drawbridge are mega rich and have no intention of surrendering any of their Kardashian kitsch. To quote Churchill sardonic...

SECOND HAND LOVE

February 19, 2024 18:05 - 1 minute - 2.02 MB

As 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://po...

A SPECIAL BREW CREW

February 19, 2024 11:33 - 2 minutes - 1.9 MB

We 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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s...

LUST

February 18, 2024 15:28 - 1 minute - 1.31 MB

A short poem about lust that seemingly deadly sin that if the devil be shamed and the truth told is an instinctive desire that we all carry within . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

SOUL CATCHER

February 18, 2024 11:23 - 1 minute - 1.38 MB

Similar to an Eskimo fishing through a hole in the ice one could easily imagine a soul catcher waiting patiently at the edge of a black hole in order to capture our very essence , then freeze drying us in the absolute zero of infinity giving him our plasma concentrate life , we'd be ready for a re-nucleation or reconstitution, and what better freeze drying facility than the perfectly vacuumed packaging plant of space . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ra...

FEMME FATALE

February 17, 2024 17:09 - 2 minutes - 2.2 MB

The femme fatale overrides all of our rationale her swan song is the sound we hear as our love boat runs aground, the final pheromone is a scent of sulphur we smell as we slowly drowned . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message

SPITTLE AND SPUME

February 17, 2024 08:07 - 2 minutes - 2.45 MB

Listening to these waffling old windbags wheezing about saving our world they quaff down wine squandering ten pounds a glass and then dare to set the price of carbon capture at three pounds a ton and this to save your granddaughter or grandson ?. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message