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THE PROMISED LAND
January 07, 2024 11:49 - 1 minute - 1.38 MBA poem for Katy on reception who drives ever man crazy by giving them a glimpse of the promised land only then to watch gleefully as they walk towards her straight into a paradise of quicksand . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
REVOLUTION
January 06, 2024 14:46 - 2 minutes - 2.33 MBSooner than later we as a species will have to address our crazy situation of over population , due to land perishing and pollution in the final stages we may very well end up as refugees building our own blood lined barricades of revolution . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
CORONA
January 05, 2024 20:15 - 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 --- Send in a voice message: h...
VOODOO DAWN
January 05, 2024 13:04 - 1 minute - 1.76 MBIf ever you should take a drink with a witch make sure you leave the very same night before the break of day or the dawn of light by which time you might just find yourself in a very unfortunate plight of being subjected to her JuJu cat's emasculation bite that leaves you as some sort of strangely sculptured hermaphrodite . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
ODE TO A TOAD
January 05, 2024 07:09 - 1 minute - 1.42 MBPaint me warts and all said Olivier Cromwell who had the skin of an old toad after his death he was hung at Tyburn then decapitated his head was put on a pole outside Westminster palace the parliament he'd spilt so much blood to put in place . I have used some archaic English which is still used in many Yorkshire rural communities to this very day. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
D I Y
January 04, 2024 11:55 - 3 minutes - 2.98 MBA short song about Buying power tools at the DIY hardware store You may as well arm yourself with a weapon of war casualties around the world run into the hundreds of thousands the body counts are higher than in most modern theatres of war. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
COVID 19
January 03, 2024 16:20 - 2 minutes - 2.02 MBThis poem is about our fixation with fear, which I must add is definitely here. We're all living like mendicant monks; our decadent café latte lifestyles are all but defunct. This virus hangs about us like the prophecy of Macbeth, creating constant hysteria as though it were a new strain of black death. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
THE CENOTAPH
January 02, 2024 21:15 - 3 minutes - 3.2 MBA poem I wrote about our cenotaph , every town in Britain has one of these grisly reminders to the great war and then ever war there after .At first they were a pilgrimage for the patriotic to come and worship their glorious dead but now they're used by so many different swathes of society as a place to rebel, and then there's the drunks and drug addicts who seem to favour and gravitate towards these ancient monuments almost similar to those druids who worship in the circle of Stonehenge. -...
THE LONG DROP
January 02, 2024 18:30 - 1 minute - 1.84 MBWilliam marwood's long drop solution, brought about a revolution in the British Empires approach for delivering and dispatching a more humane method of execution . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
EQUINOX
January 01, 2024 19:47 - 1 minute - 1.65 MBBlue September skies signals the end of Summer's lease the autumn equinox in one day changes everything tilting time and tugging tide , it's as though our season of life has suddenly just died . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
BRAVEHEART
January 01, 2024 12:48 - 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 . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
GUY FAWKES
December 28, 2023 19:32 - 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...
REFUGEE
December 28, 2023 18:29 - 2 minutes - 2.53 MBFrom Bonaparte to Lionheart from the mayflower to the superpower all Nations have produce refugees at one time or another we're all to blame for this ever increasing burden of shame --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
OUI
December 28, 2023 17:32 - 48 seconds - 764 KBLe poeme en francais the language of love. Forgive my French it's been twenty-five years since I was there. A poem about love and women should always be in the feminine form hence why I use La poeme instead of Le masculine ,it sounds and lends it's self much more to L'amour which of course can be masculine in the singular or feminine in the plural. Entree L"androgyne et l"ambiguite' --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
MONSTER MUNCH
December 28, 2023 08:47 - 2 minutes - 2.47 MBA short song I wrote about the monster munch crisps as a love song I did it whilst riding aboard a train the 11.34 from Bicester to London Marylebone station 12.38 recorded in two takes outside McDonald's in double quick time. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
A LOVE HONEY SPUNK BUNNY
December 27, 2023 07:31 - 2 minutes - 2.95 MBA song for a love honey we called Ann Summers due to her working there, she asked me for a birthday card 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 this along the lines of a frigid flustering fool that she'd doubtless be serving at the Ann summers shop. Katie looks at all men with indifference and always takes fun from them , Bravo darling it's all we deserve. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.co...
THE PATH TO PERDITION
December 26, 2023 21:04 - 1 minute - 1.47 MBAll Medieval religions outlawed usury as a sin , profit of any kind wasn't allowed it still stands as a judgement against you today the road 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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
LIAR
December 25, 2023 23:14 - 2 minutes - 2.2 MBEvery night I ask the women at my local shop what has been happening I usually get same boring response from a middle class mind full of meandering mediocrity then I tell her she can lie to save us both the boring reply. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
THE PRODIGAL SON
December 22, 2023 16:10 - 3 minutes - 3.14 MBIt's very difficult to understand the parable of the prodigal son but remember what you're dealing with is someone just above a bowery bum who will squander everything and leave you in distress and destitution then he will move on to find more money to squander into piss powder and prostitution . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
WOKING TO WATERLOO.
December 13, 2023 19:56 - 2 minutes - 2.19 MBA poem about the busiest train in the whole of Britain and Europe the 7.22 to from Woking to Waterloo a hundred million passengers pass through Waterloo each year which makes for some terrifying or tantalising flesh to flesh point's of view . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
PRODIGAL SON
December 12, 2023 20:29 - 1 minute - 1.25 MBA poem written for a sibling son whose quest for frolic and fun wedge hatred in-between his brothers love by what he'd gone and done , it's difficult to understand the parable of the prodigal son especially if you're looking through the eyes of the other hard working one who through restraint and strive hath managed with diligent life toiled and tilled the farm in order to fill empty bellies and winter barn now back without a crumb returns the squandering sibling pun doubtless to take the fam...
VIRGIN DEATH
September 14, 2023 13:23 - 1 minute - 1.44 MBA musing about Lord Kitchener who's Sabre rattling speeches come sermons raised rapturous 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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
NAME AND SHAME.
September 04, 2023 13:47 - 1 minute - 850 KBA musing about giving your offspring a strong sounding name something that will inspire an aspire them towards fortune and fame . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
GOD GOOGLE.
August 02, 2023 06:14 - 50 seconds - 792 KBGod Google. A short poem I wrote about the neo omnipresent computer algorithm that seems almost all controlling and God like in its invisible presence . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
STRICTLY COME DANCING
January 28, 2023 08:26 - 1 minute - 1.58 MBHumorous little sketch I wrote for Jeanine who was going to see strictly come dancing live in Leeds I wrote the sketch after listening to two old men complaining about the aches and pains in witherspoons Darlington it's narrated in their yorkshire accents, the photo is from strictly come dancing the same night in Leeds sent by JEANINE . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
THE BODY OF JOHN DOE.
January 18, 2023 07:58 - 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://anchor.fm/ravenheart/message
GRANDAD
January 11, 2023 12:41 - 1 minute - 1.83 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 . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ravenheart/message
LOVE'S A FOOL
November 25, 2022 13:56 - 2 minutes - 2.45 MBA cynical love song . My Family members were 1920s dyed-in-the-wool Yorkshiremen who believed that love be measured in pounds Shillings and pence and behind the white picket fence was a work house specially built to keep wife wain or wench who had a value similar to that of blood stock and foul , children being merely chattels without soul . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
O C D
November 17, 2022 12:20 - 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 ...
SALVATION
November 11, 2022 19:55 - 2 minutes - 1.32 MBA little tune i wrote for James who's very devout in his religion each Sunday we usually have a long discussion with him trying to convert me to his Christianity and me remaining with my humble hallowed humanity both of us respectful of each others theistic thoughts. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
GOOD FRIDAY
November 08, 2022 10:59 - 18 minutes - 17.4 MBA short story about crazy maniacs who shared space and spilt blood with me , you should never really put three bisexuals and an asexual under one roof especially if one pushes everything and everyone to the limit of their patience --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravenheart/message
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
TRUTH
October 06, 2022 11:10 - 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.
RUBY
October 05, 2022 11:32 - 1 minute - 1.6 MBRuby's a teenage dream queen that's been hand made in heaven to a cat walking cool talking size number seven , she glares an glints guilty as a guillotine , her temper is a mix of gunpowder an nitroglycerin.
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