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⭐TYPHOON IN THE ROOM⭐
November 06, 2022 22:31 - 3 minutes - 2.93 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...
⭐COVID 19⭐
November 06, 2022 17:51 - 2 minutes - 2.02 MBThe fear is now definitely here , our café laite life styles are over and we are living in isolation cells similar to the Trappist monk our beautiful secular society is all but defunk.
⭐THE BODY OF JOHN DOE.⭐
November 06, 2022 15:18 - 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.
⭐THE BILL⭐
November 06, 2022 14:19 - 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 .
⭐WRATH⭐
November 06, 2022 10:35 - 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 .
⭐MANEATER⭐
November 06, 2022 07:26 - 2 minutes - 1.04 MBKrystyana 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 lasted seven years as a field agent fighting against Nazi tyranny only then 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 that she was due to fly out to be married...
⭐ARTIST⭐
November 05, 2022 18:43 - 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 purgatory point of view .
⭐SILK PURSE SOW'S EAR⭐
November 05, 2022 07:52 - 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 .
⭐GUY FAWKES⭐
November 04, 2022 16:53 - 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...
CORONAVIRUS
October 31, 2022 19:29 - 1 minute - 1.76 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
NIRVANA
October 19, 2022 18:51 - 2 minutes - 2.69 MBA song about setting 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 wonderlust with our own wanderlust , but we did become quite skilled in the art of conversation due to spending so much time spieling with strangers , way b...
J F K
October 18, 2022 17:38 - 2 minutes - 2.65 MBA song about emperors and kings who believe themselves to be the devine demagoguery If a devine deity did arrive on planet earth these mobsters and megalomaniacs would see them quickly murdered . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
RAG AND BONE
October 16, 2022 13:45 - 3 minutes - 3.52 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 after acquiring great wealth he still retained his beggar man roots and rhetoric. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
BREXITEER
October 09, 2022 13:36 - 2 minutes - 2.83 MBThe Westminster war of brexit has spilt 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
OXFAM
October 04, 2022 13:14 - 3 minutes - 2.83 MBThe Oxfam shop or as we call it "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 ...
M'ALICE IN THUNDERLAND
October 01, 2022 21:02 - 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...
NINA
September 28, 2022 15:49 - 2 minutes - 1.21 MBA slow smoochy song for Nina ,I thought I'd possibly compare thee to a woodland tree x --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
COVID-19
September 27, 2022 09:33 - 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 . 10 ENVY  The green eyed mo...
A MIDWIFE CRISIS
September 26, 2022 07:09 - 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 .
CAIN AND ABEL .
September 23, 2022 07:29 - 3 minutes - 1.72 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/ravenheart/message
VOODOO
September 22, 2022 08:45 - 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/ravenheart/message
STARGATE
September 01, 2022 15:56 - 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 .
GRANDFATHER
August 03, 2022 17:00 - 2 minutes - 2.1 MBThese old sentinels guard over us in our early years stolid as grandfather clocks their old hearts pendulum the rhythm of life into our ears a blood metronome beat sounding to the timpani of our tiny feet .
LILY'S BIRTHDAY SONG
July 31, 2022 11:57 - 2 minutes - 2.04 MBA little ditty I wrote for lillian's birthday who was born on the first of may now aged nine .all rights reserved --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
THE FLOOD
July 25, 2022 19:28 - 18 minutes - 17 MBUnfortunately this was based on real life events within hours of a small miss demeanor involving a flood the Chinese whispers got to work and in the gossiping café's of old H-gate every transformation took place looking back it's quite amusing how things can get so convoluted with each conversation people love scandal --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
STALIN
July 11, 2022 18:09 - 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/ravenheart/message
FEMME FATALE
July 04, 2022 20:37 - 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/ravenheart/message
ELVIS
July 03, 2022 10:46 - 4 minutes - 4.57 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/ravenheart/message
EMANCIPATION
July 01, 2022 18:20 - 2 minutes - 2.39 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 sign papers of adoption the high priest of the Celtic druids absolutely worshipped his wild woodland produce , I got the uneasy feeling that my blood was going to be sacrificed under the oak tree called Zeus after i touched a sacred sprig of his mistletoe obviously a crime punishable by death .
THE GUNPOWDER PLOT
June 30, 2022 12:04 - 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...
SISTER SIRI
June 26, 2022 21:53 - 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/ravenheart/message
THE HIGHWAY TO HELL
June 24, 2022 19:59 - 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...
NINJA GIRL
June 19, 2022 18:14 - 3 minutes - 2.92 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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
PARADISO
June 15, 2022 10:47 - 1 minute - 976 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...
AULD LANG SYNE
May 23, 2022 13:28 - 3 minutes - 3.16 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 t...
THE KIT-KAT CLUB
May 18, 2022 21:12 - 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/ravenheart/message
THE TRAMP
May 02, 2022 13:54 - 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
THE MUSTANG
April 10, 2022 21:13 - 2 minutes - 2.26 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.
JEANNINE
April 10, 2022 18:59 - 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 .
SCOTCH BROTH
April 10, 2022 08:29 - 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 .
SPY GIRL
March 14, 2022 21:29 - 2 minutes - 2.52 MBKrystyana 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 lasted seven years as a field agent fighting against Nazi tyranny only then 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 that she was due to fly out to be married...
CHRISTINE
March 14, 2022 15:06 - 3 minutes - 2.83 MBA song 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 pub we now know as stonewall.
DIY
March 14, 2022 14:46 - 2 minutes - 2.24 MBBuying power tools at the hardware store? well 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 modern theatres of war ! .
SEXUALITY.
March 13, 2022 21:17 - 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 .
EXODUS
March 06, 2022 13:56 - 1 minute - 1.77 MBWe watch the bloodstained refugee whilst sitting at home with wine and 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 !! .
LESBIAN MAN.
March 02, 2022 18:34 - 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 .
THE MISER'S DAUGHTER
February 26, 2022 21:23 - 1 minute - 1.7 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 .
SNAKE BITE
February 20, 2022 11:08 - 3 minutes - 2.81 MBA song I wrote in the old music hall traditiion of two verse chorus which is similar to the church stanza chorus stanza chorus I've also sang it in the baritone barber shop of a beggers opera style like that of my father who born in 1925 still bursts into song similar to a Mississippi minstrel .
RAGMAN ROCKEFELLER.
February 15, 2022 17:53 - 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.
THE BOOZE BROTHERS
February 13, 2022 20:28 - 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.