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ROBIN HOOD
March 26, 2024 19:24 - 4 minutes - 4.44 MBA living monument of mystery Robin Hoods oak is by far the most famous tree in all of ancient history , a thousand years of silent still sophistry , with all its empty holes and hollow the winter winds howl through her creating a mournful sound of sadness and sorrow. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
VANITY
March 26, 2024 06:12 - 4 minutes - 4.14 MBIs vanity a sin or just the selfish substance we need in order to win ?. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
AN EYE FOR AN ( i )
March 25, 2024 20:29 - 1 minute - 1.8 MBA short poem about how AI artificial intelligence is now learning from other Ai algorithms using the deep learning techniques then competing against each other in the AGi' tournament what with all the different i's ranging from sci-fi ,WiFi ,hi-fi , to the secret service abbreviations of SI FBI CIA MI5 MI6 let's hope the deep learning machines know the difference between so many different i's an don't the biblical vindictive lexicon of taking "An eye for an (i) The poem is written in' haiku 5...
SEVEN SHADES OF SIN
March 25, 2024 14:49 - 4 minutes - 4.62 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 we needed while hunter-gathering on the savage African Savannah. Through evolution and ecclesiastical endeavors, we have been trying to adapt our mammalian species to a more sacred, sentient state of being ever since. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
ANN SUMMERS
March 24, 2024 21:47 - 4 minutes - 4.46 MBA musing for a wonderful women we called Ann Summers due to her working there, she asked for a birthday poem and caused me a writer's block which when I tried to explain she cursed me a look of pure disdain so I wrote it as if she was serving me at the Ann summers shop. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
SLOTH
March 24, 2024 17:47 - 2 minutes - 2.1 MBThe sloth is portrayed as the epitome of laziness but this little arboreal adaption turns out to be a perfect green dream a hairy little leaf eating machine that has a zero carbon footprint and could save the world all on its own we would do well to put a little of the sinful slow sloth back in our own fast food life styles in order to try and save our poor planet . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
SPARTACUS
March 24, 2024 08:35 - 3 minutes - 3.64 MBThe third slave uprising in Rome was brutally crushed; a hundred thousand men lay dead on the battlefield, and another six thousand were crucified along the Appian Way, left to rot as carrion crow fodder, serving as a lesson for anyone else inclined to rebel against the might of Rome. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
A NAVY BLUE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN.
March 23, 2024 17:46 - 1 minute - 1.86 MBWe lived our lives like nocturnal belfry bats fuelled by drink our cranial crashes and darkness of depression were common place the only way to fight against them was with serotonin smarties and a daily dose of humour . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
CHLAMYDIA
March 23, 2024 13:27 - 53 seconds - 857 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/ravenheart/message
SHYLOCK
March 22, 2024 06:09 - 1 minute - 1.59 MBA person who is cast in abject austerity remains of the same mind set forever even though they may have risen to a position of privileged prosperity . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
A ROYAL LOVE AFFAIR
March 21, 2024 22:08 - 2 minutes - 1.93 MBA poem I wrote about the sixty three year love affair between a member of the royal family and one her dutiful long standing servants known as G M for short the old Queen mums cool companion. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
WAR
March 21, 2024 07:42 - 1 minute - 1.72 MBA short sketch I wrote about a Christmas bash with the Old deaf relatives cooking programmes and war movies on alternative TV stations with their daughter trying to talk a little sense in between both of them . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
LOVE LETTERS
March 20, 2024 13:59 - 2 minutes - 2.16 MBHidden in her locked silver box were her secret letters of love from a dead American pilot who in a moment of war when passion was in fashion she fed her heart red and raw to his hungry dog of amour . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
A FEUDAL FEW
March 19, 2024 06:17 - 2 minutes - 2.09 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 someone else especially another nationality , the British empire managed to achieve for a few hundred years each school had peculiar traits Eton used to be famous for its flage Friday where boys would be placed onto a birching block and thrashed. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sh...
HOLD THE LINE
March 18, 2024 20:01 - 2 minutes - 2.07 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/ravenheart/message
JAGUAR
March 17, 2024 20:44 - 1 minute - 1.8 MBTo 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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
TODD FOXY FISHER
March 17, 2024 12:49 - 1 minute - 1.61 MBA short poem for Todd's forth birthday his name means the fox although the only thing I've seen him foraging for are lollipops from the ice box. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
BLACK ROD
March 16, 2024 15:25 - 1 minute - 1.69 MBA birthday poem for NENO it's called Black Rod because for the first time in Britain's 1000 year parliament's history the position is now held by a women this spiritual and temporal appointment of power is long overdue for a changing of the guard the willow may look soft and gentle but inside lies her heart of oak . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
SUFFRAGETTE
March 13, 2024 19:06 - 2 minutes - 2.16 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 heavily upon the British empire 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/ravenheart/message
MANCHESTER PETE
March 13, 2024 12:26 - 2 minutes - 1.88 MBA poem for big Manchester Pete, the hardest looking man you'd ever meet, a face made for a trick or treat but inside his heart was softer than a boiled swede of sugar beet . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
WATERLOO
March 12, 2024 21:14 - 2 minutes - 2.58 MBA poem about falling into destitution especially soldiers and sailors who you find in the beggars brigade of most British towns. How easy it be to cast contempt , lest we forget our debt. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
VIRGIN SOLDIERS
March 12, 2024 17:44 - 1 minute - 1.16 MBMusing about Lord Kitchener, whose saber-rattling speeches turned into sermons that garnered rapturous applause in Whitehall and Westminster. Unfortunately, his young, inexperienced soldiers were dying at a rate of 6,000 a day. He had "avoid wine and women" printed into their guidebooks for war, referring to French prostitutes. With a life expectancy of only 17 hours, contracting a little pox would have been the least of their worries. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spot...
HELLS ANGELS
March 12, 2024 08:03 - 1 minute - 1.63 MBThe Harrogate Belles Angels were a group of girls who rode motorbikes wore leather , took drugs and slaked drink but most of all they were stunningly beautiful and highly educated God bless them all. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
SERMON OF A SQUIRREL
March 10, 2024 20:18 - 2 minutes - 1.91 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'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 MBA 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 MBA 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 MBMustang 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 MBA 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 MBThe 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 MBThe 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 MBA 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 KBTwenty 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 MBA 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 MBMy 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 MBA 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 KBA 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 MBThey 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 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 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 MBA 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 MBA 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 MBIt'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 MBA 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
L S D
March 01, 2024 07:50 - 4 minutes - 3.86 MBThe 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 MBA 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 MBA 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 MBAnother 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
BEE'S KNEES
February 28, 2024 07:49 - 1 minute - 1.76 MBThe 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 KBA 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
TRUTH TRAINING
February 26, 2024 17:25 - 2 minutes - 2.37 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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
REDEMPTION.
February 25, 2024 16:31 - 1 minute - 1.84 MBCarrying 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