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SUICIDAL SNAILS
January 20, 2024 17:43 - 1 minute - 1.39 MBA poem written about the suicidal tendencies of snails, that started out as jellyfish swimming freely in the wide-open sea. Now, I can understand why, bonded onto terra firma, they may suffer from depression or suicidal tendencies, throwing themselves to their deaths under our feet on every garden path or rain-wet street. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
THE MORTAL MACHINE
January 20, 2024 08:24 - 2 minutes - 2.03 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...
ENVY
January 19, 2024 17:18 - 1 minute - 1.17 MBThe green-eyed monster of sin, that schadenfreude which we keep hidden away so deep within, its usually only seen in children as they exert their will to win ; the lowly leftover instinct of our anthropic ascension. However, this terrible traite can also be witnessed later in our lives when males begin to assert and dominate as the sexual stage arrives and our species needs to procreate . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
THE LAST BOHEMIAN
January 19, 2024 12:47 - 11 minutes - 11.3 MBA eulogy I wrote for a dear friend of mine who to me will always be the last bohemian . He was an artist for more than 65 years a prolific painter who sold his selling his work into the top galleries of London. A very impressive figure who change my life forever with his mindful mentoring I became a much better person through knowing him . The work pictured is a self portrait of himself he was just as colourful in real life , Godbless you Rob and I'll see you on the other side. --- Send in...
EARTH, WATER ,WIND AND FIRE.
January 19, 2024 07:04 - 57 seconds - 915 KBThe four elements of life, if we do not lean to respect them as ancient cultures did them they will cease to respect us. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
THE MORTGAGE MASK
January 18, 2024 14:32 - 1 minute - 1.07 MBThinking back to my parents fate, it's hard to see how they once passed romantically through Eden's Gate into the land of milk and money where they fell hopelessly in love and felt the urge to passionately procreate. After doing so they then wore a miserable mortgage mask , that twenty-five-year servile task, eventually paying back the bank manager's seven percent overdraft. They scrimped and scraped in a steel city strife, and then this beleaguered husband and wife decided to search for a bi...
O C D C
January 18, 2024 11:24 - 2 minutes - 2.49 MBThis 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 ...
IMMORTALITY
January 18, 2024 08:38 - 2 minutes - 2.75 MBThe only true miracle that we mortal beings are likely to see comes in the form of our genetic immortality that gene transfer continuum better known to you and me as a baby, Throughout the humans brief biological history it has believed in many a different sherman deity an Divinity ranging from Greek gods to our present day Corpus Christi, But when it comes to the real miracle making capability then it's the female of our species that is graced with the life giving fertility. This poem is wr...
A MOON BEAM DREAM
January 17, 2024 21:17 - 1 minute - 1.22 MBA poem about a cherub child called Lily who arrived so devine and right on time to save us from our self destruction just as if Gabriel that had gifted to us his Lily shaped horn . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
BIG JUDD
January 17, 2024 20:15 - 1 minute - 1.74 MBIn the 1980s Yorkshire towns were all male prowess, which usually ment attempting a liquid suicide of drink each night to show your tribe what a man you were It ended with some terrible casualties, the Yorkshire accent is extremely harsh at times and to most people I would think almost incomprehensible. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
A MIDLIFE CRISIS
January 17, 2024 15:08 - 1 minute - 1.71 MBA poem about men and their midwife crisis as a matter course men feel the need to try out a new horse so they get a divorce and set off in search of adventure usually riding a Harley-Davidson towards the sun and what they think will be some all new sexual fun . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
PRECIOUS PRIDE
January 17, 2024 13:09 - 1 minute - 1.48 MBA prick of our precious pride is all that's needed to derail and deride our sensibility into taking a walk back to its wild side. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
WRATH
January 17, 2024 11:54 - 1 minute - 1.61 MBThe last update of a human brain was in the mid to late stone age hence why we still carry the trait of wrath some believe it's one of the seven deadly sins whilst others say it be just a left over instinct from the sapiens savage days of survival . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
WHITE DEATH
January 16, 2024 16:36 - 1 minute - 1.8 MBA musing about my father's experience aboard a super cruise liner where he and most of the old Badgers contracted some terrible infection that almost killed them and this was before the Covid Cruise Lines came along, interestingly you can see how you could end up with a Marie Celeste . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
FANTASTIC PLASTIC
January 16, 2024 14:24 - 2 minutes - 2.18 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...
JEANINE
January 16, 2024 10:45 - 3 minutes - 3.43 MBA 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/ravenheart/message
GROUND ZERO
January 16, 2024 08:07 - 2 minutes - 2.17 MBThe COVID-19 crisis has caused our fast-spinning world to slow to a halt. Even after trillions of dollars of quantitative easing, it still feels like the whole world has been hit by some dreadful physical freezing. Now, everybody waits with bated breath for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to begin his terrible squeezing. Just when the pandemic feels over, winter arrives, and people start coughing and sneezing, gasping and wheezing. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.c...
STEVE MCQUEEN
January 15, 2024 21:20 - 6 minutes - 6.06 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...
SYLLABLE SWING
January 15, 2024 19:15 - 1 minute - 1.63 MBWhen children acquire their first language they sing like a fledgling on the first day of spring with that easy natural swing which to them is a brand new play thing without any restraining ring , their simple melodic crooning needs no interference or fine tuning but unfortunately school comes along with its lexicon tongue "dislexicating " what was once a beautiful song leaving that innocent syllable swing broken as a birds wing the kids then become too frightened to fly and drag their disloc...
TRUTH
January 15, 2024 15:59 - 3 minutes - 3.26 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
CAT FLAP
January 15, 2024 13:43 - 2 minutes - 2.39 MBA musing written for lily age 9 and her cat Sean who's got terribly fat due to been neutered, he's put on a lot of weight I've narrated it in a yorkshire accent due to Sean being born and raised in Harrogate . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
COCK ROBIN.
January 15, 2024 11:58 - 1 minute - 1.58 MBEmblazoned bright upon his breast he carries that noble heraldic crest , tis the colour of blood and fire be it a blessed response to his lovers desire, suspicion states that he was at the passion of christ , an there by thorny crown was blooded an blessed , is this why today he doth still sanctify the arrival of our christmas fest . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
JOHN DOE
January 14, 2024 22:29 - 1 minute - 1.44 MBEvery experience through the innocent eyes of a child can be quite terrifying now as an adult even death is placed into a casual calm context your maker might as well be your baker. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
TAXI DRIVER
January 14, 2024 18:27 - 1 minute - 1.57 MBA musing about a talkative taxi driver who would insist on talking about his part time profession as a slaughter men come taxi-dermist my frightfully far back friend and I were able to see and smell the blood by the end of our short journey . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
KISS OF DEATH
January 14, 2024 15:04 - 50 seconds - 785 KBA poem come prayer for a baby who died at birth and never got a chance of life , if ever you've been close to someone who's lost a new born then you do feel if it were possible you would gladly swap your old soul to save a new born foal . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
GLUTTONY
January 14, 2024 08:21 - 1 minute - 1.84 MBI was quite horrified to read that the human is responsible for the slaughter of three billion aninmals each day , i wrote the poem in a pompous manner after listening to a hunter talking about his blood sports, he belived it tobe his righteous privalage to kill similar to royalty who once regularly pleasured their pallets with the flesh of endangered animals with some still doing so today after buying a licence from secret African auction houses in many of these poorer countries gluttony and...
A CROWN OF THORNS
January 13, 2024 22:22 - 48 seconds - 829 KBLegend has that the Robin gained his red breast from pulling the thorns out of the crown of Jesus at his crucifixion to ease his suffering --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
MAN TRIBE
January 13, 2024 14:42 - 2 minutes - 1.94 MBBack in the sixties heavy industry was extremely hard work the way the men eased their brutal burden was with non-stop humourous quirk today its seen as a social deride that one must hastily hide .humour has become a malignant tumor cut away by political correctness until its now all but a rumour . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
CHRISTINE
January 13, 2024 12:08 - 3 minutes - 3.4 MBA song I wrote to commemorate the courage of Christine, the first transgender beauty queen who, back in 1953, bravely decided to have her gender reassigned to its rightful sexuality, in order that she might be set free from the burden of living with her very unwanted masculinity. But it would be a long journey from the first roll of that snowball before the LGBTQ+ community finally made their stand for equality at the pub we now know as Stonewall. --- Send in a voice message: https://podca...
LIQUID SIN
January 13, 2024 08:58 - 3 minutes - 2.8 MBThe high functioning alcoholic starts his day with a liberal libation of liquid sin, beneath their Celtic cream coloured skin once beat the heart of Gunga Din . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
FATE ON A PLATE
January 13, 2024 08:16 - 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 the 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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
ELVIS
January 12, 2024 22:22 - 3 minutes - 3.03 MBA poem for the king of rock and roll he was born into extreme poverty raised in a shotgun shack but managed not only to break out of that but also to attack the 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/ravenheart/message
THE LION THING.
January 12, 2024 14:40 - 2 minutes - 1.97 MBLooking at my Godson Watching the Lion king I cast my mind back to childhood and when I saw a pathetic beast a lion that was used as a pet in a scrap yard chained, toothless, clawless and castrated, it died of pneumonia because of cold and cruelty terrible how we bring these beautiful beasts to suffer in our cold climates to become a caged curiosity . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
REVOLTING
January 12, 2024 08:10 - 36 seconds - 582 KBTwo haiku poems , TEAR DROP shows how a Tsunami can start from the slightest ripple. REVOLTING, a poem on how if you distact someone with something revolting it can avert a revolution ie Rome's Colosseum or today's violent multimedia , keep the sapien sedated by letting them slake on sadism . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
ROAD RAGE
January 11, 2024 15:32 - 4 minutes - 4.17 MBA musing about road rage and how it affects all of us , simmer the sapien inside a tin can especially in a stop start traffic jam and it quickly reverts back to primitive man and that includes pacifists and your little old Gran . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
OXFAM
January 11, 2024 14:28 - 2 minutes - 2.54 MBThe Oxfam shop or "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 friends and fa...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
January 11, 2024 11:29 - 1 minute - 1.18 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...
LOVE .
January 11, 2024 08:55 - 3 minutes - 3.09 MBThinking back to my parents fate it's hard to see how they once did romantically pass through the eden gate into the land of milk and money where they fell hopelessly in love and felt the urge to passionately procreate , after which they wore the mortgage mask that twenty five year servile task eventually paying back the bank managers seven percent overdraft , they scrimped and scrapped in a steel city strife an then this beleaguered husband and wife decided to search out a big world party a...
BLIND DATE
January 11, 2024 07:49 - 1 minute - 1.97 MBA musing about an old friend who has now divorced and gone back onto the Mating sites looking for lust not realising that his old sex pistol has long since turned to rust , men of curtain age with faint hearts and feeble flesh really they need to be extremely careful I told one chum that his Bumble dating site might be better if it was called crumble due to the flaking dusty disposition of its clients. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
A WHIPPING BOY
January 11, 2024 06:44 - 1 minute - 1.82 MBA poem about emperors pope's and kings who believe themselves to be the devine demagoguery even as children they had whipping boys to take away their punishment and guilt, sacred scapegoats for them to stripe and slaughter ; If a devine deity did arrive on planet earth these mobsters and megalomaniacs would soon see them quickly murdered . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
KHAMA
January 10, 2024 20:04 - 2 minutes - 1.99 MBOur green 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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
BOHEMIAN FUGITIVES.
January 10, 2024 14:15 - 1 minute - 1.37 MBA poem written for two old Bohemians who through reckless behaviour in younger year did so destroy the fragile entity of love and are now left with just the ghost of her to haunt their empty old hearts . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
LINDSAY
January 10, 2024 11:28 - 1 minute - 1.28 MBA poem I wrote for the everso beautiful Lindsay who is leaving after 11 years she brought her LGBT spirit and colour into our drab fifty souls of grey community bombing us daily with vivid wondrous paintings she takes with her an extraordinary feng shui losing her is like the loss of a perpetual summer's day , artist are the community take them away and you kill it's soul you're left with empty plastic people with tarmac tongues and concrete craniums. --- Send in a voice message: https://p...
PROFUMO
January 10, 2024 06:33 - 3 minutes - 3.33 MBIn 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 ...
THE SOUL
January 09, 2024 18:40 - 2 minutes - 1.89 MB"The ghost in our mortal machine is like a spiritual symbiotic twin, a collaborative companion that shares in our secular sin. Silently and secretively, it hides within our sapien skin, accompanying us from the womb to the tomb, and then ultimately giving evidence on the day of our doom. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
SPRING CLEANING
January 08, 2024 22:12 - 2 minutes - 1.97 MBHer mother is always in a constant Spring clean dusting and polishing until everything in the house begins to gleam, then again she could be addicted to the smell of Mr sheen or has she been drinking far too much caffeine, perhaps it's something to do with the covid vaccine that's turned her into this dopamine drama queen, what about the lack of vitamin b12 is she missing the red meat protein she's never quite been the same since she read the vegan magazine, oh for heaven's sake someone pleas...
ARTIST
January 08, 2024 15:45 - 2 minutes - 2.06 MBA Musing about my artist girlfriend from Barcelona, Spain, I couldn't understand what she meant by being a spiritual suffragette. Sacrificing love and life for her art, I thought her to be pompous and pretentious, born with a silver spoon up her sleeve. Now, after months of lockdown, living as a mendicant monk in my own garret cell of solitary confinement, I'm beginning to understand her purgatory point of view . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenh...
SILK PURSE SOW'S EAR
January 08, 2024 12:34 - 1 minute - 1.71 MBA musing about two relative's who should never have entered into a doomed relationship due to their persuasions and personalities being planets apart one a reclusive miser and the other an extravagant extrovert ; perhaps now with the internet we might make a much better match.com or sexual selection of it with God Google's precision and profiling us to the last detail of our mortal minutiae it should make for some interesting parings that are not left to the seven senses of the sapien . --- ...
KANGAROO
January 07, 2024 14:50 - 1 minute - 1.74 MBA sketch about Thornton Harding the Junior's obsession with exotic pets , from a kangaroo netball team to a badger for the bedroom and an otter for the bathroom the aristocracy are mad one also had a giraffe dray and rode around his estate as a child on a giant tortoise. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
STAR TREK
January 07, 2024 13:46 - 1 minute - 1.84 MBA musing about our Star Trek scientists who make it sound like our intergalactic fate is just a walk to the subway or through a nearby subatomic Stargate . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message