Poetry

By Steven Richardson

What's Poetry about?

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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Poetry episodes:

06.14.2024
STARGATE
A musing about the Star Trek scientists who make our intergalactic fate sound like a subway ride through a station Stargate . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
03.25.2024
TITANIC
Being at sea aboard huge luxury vessels is very glamorous. As a skipper-come-captain, it is easy to be wined and dined each evening by billionaires with the finest foods and drinks. The only drawback is that you steadily become an...
03.25.2024
DIY
Buying power tools at the hardware store? 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...
03.24.2024
FIFTY SHADES OF GREY
When you reach fifty, plus tax, and still see yourself as a sexy silver fox with those ash-gray locks, you might want to forget about the fifty shades of grey, and perhaps put your old sex pistol away. --- Send in...
03.22.2024
RAGMAN ROCKEFELLER
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 after acquiring great wealth he still retained his beggar man...
03.19.2024
NIRVANA
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 your thumb and forefinger were used for hitchhiking thousands of...
03.17.2024
GRETA
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...
03.15.2024
TIK TOK ROCK
A tune for my godson Todd who's five years old it was inspired by listening to him talking about his modern dance class which involves quite a lot of acrobatics including parkouring from the kitchen table onto the floor then...
03.14.2024
ROAD RAGE
Simmer the sapien inside a tin can especially in a stop start traffic jam and they quickly revert back to primitive man and that includes pacifists and your little old gran . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
03.13.2024
ENVY
A poem written about that green eyed monster of sin the secret schadenfreude that we all keep hidden away within , usually it's only seen in young children as they rival for survival craving their parents attention a lowly leftover...
03.12.2024
SPRING CLEANING
A poem for Lily who 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...
03.12.2024
PROFUMO
In 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 their spy games were ; one was sacrificed as a scapegoat and...
03.11.2024
BIG JUDD
Male prowess in the 1970s and 1980s of British northern towns usually ment you had to attempt to drink a liquid suicide to verify your masculine side to your alcoholic man tribe . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
03.11.2024
GOOGLE
A little poem I wrote about our Neo Omnipresence that seems almost God like in its power and control , the all seeing eye that invisible entity watching over everything we say and do. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
03.09.2024
MERCANTILE
A short poem written about the money monsters in the city of London they feed their need and greed down on London's squire mile all the while with a wry smirk and smile hence why this rapacious reptile is called...
03.08.2024
ENVY
The 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...
03.08.2024
REVOLTING
Two haiku poems , TEAR DROP shows how a Tsunami can start from the slightest ripple. REVOLTING, another haiku poem on how if you distract someone with something revolting it can avert a revolution ie Rome's Colosseum or today's violent...
03.08.2024
MIDNIGHT THUNDER
A poem about a very beautiful woman called Claudia who's powerful persona and laughter use to roll around us like a midnight thunder. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
03.08.2024
A PROMISED LAND
A verse dedicated to Katy at the reception desk, who entices every man with a glimpse of paradise and a promised, only then to revel in glee as they step into her quagmire of quicksand. --- Send in a voice message:...
03.07.2024
A NAVY BLUE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
Living our lives as nocturnal belfry bats fuelled by booze and nose gay narcotics we'd flutter back at dawn after sharing shrink spiel and serotonin Smarties at all night high octane piss and powder parties in H-gate is there any...
03.07.2024
ROBIN HOOD
A living monument of mystery , Robin Hood's oak is by far the most famous tree in all of ancient history a thousand years of silent sophistry , with all its empty holes and hollows the winter winds howl through...
03.06.2024
THE WOKING TO WATERLOO
Riding aboard the busiest train in Britain the 7.32 woking to Waterloo a hundred million passengers a year pass through Waterloo which makes for some terrifying or tantalising flesh to flesh points of view . --- Send in a voice message:...
03.06.2024
BARKINGHAM PALACE
Another crazy sketch about the life of Thornton Harding the junior an aristocrat who is mad about his pets he calls them by the strangest names such as his dog Greyfriars Warton Benson the junior who i might add is...
03.05.2024
THE GOD FATHER
A poem about a mafia boss who was born in Le panier de Marseille the last bastion of Beelzebub who then rose to become France's ultimate crime Capo Di Capo lasting fifty years before being gunned down in Paris for...
03.05.2024
MEDUSA
Her 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/steven-richardson5/message
03.05.2024
THE MUSTANG MEN
The Mustang Men were Wild tameless stallions with sports cars suntans and gold medallions , once they were war faced warriors now they're warfarin worries they part of the night time disco scene , now they're scared of cottage pie...
03.05.2024
THE LAUGHING BREXITEER
The 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/steven-richardson5/message
03.04.2024
BLOOD RAIN
A poem about an artist girlfriend who's Spanish African temperament could turn from a soft mistral breeze that gently caressed your skin to violent blood rain Scirocco that rip's the blossom from trees slamming doors and smashing flower pot hearts...
03.04.2024
LUST
A poem about lust the seemingly deadly sin that if the devil be shamed and the truth be told is an instinctive desire that all of us do so hold . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
03.04.2024
GEMINI
Growing up in a witches coven with all of them casting spells over everything and everyone I couldn't understand the horoscope stars then or now , they were always fighting for the Sorceresse's supremacy . --- Send in a voice...
03.04.2024
A LOVE AFFAIR
A 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...
03.04.2024
BLUE GIN
A short sketch about a friend who was constantly in and out of dry out clinics and the Shrink clink where he would telephone us to explain what his psychiatrist was doing and then in exasperated tormented tones shout "it's...
03.03.2024
THE MINUTE PAST MIDNIGHT TRAIN
A poem about leaving the steel town of Sheffield at the age of nineteen , I stood wondering why the train left at the minute past midnight until I heard a hundred steel whistles blew from the industrialised Armageddon of...
03.03.2024
WOKING TO WATERLOO
A short poem about riding aboard the busiest train in Europe, the 7:32 from Woking to Waterloo. One hundred million passengers a year pass through Waterloo, which creates both terrifying and tantalizing flesh-to-flesh points of view. --- Send in a voice...
03.03.2024
GRANDAD
Grandfathers are like old sentinels that stand guard over us in our early infant years, as stolid as grandfather clocks. Their old, heavy hearts pendulum their rhythm of life into our newborn ears, a mortal metronome that keeps a steady...
03.03.2024
BLIND DATE
Musing about an old friend who has now divorced and gone back onto the dating sites, looking for lust, not realizing that his old sex pistol has long since turned to rust. Men of a certain age with faint hearts...
03.02.2024
WHITE DEATH
A musing about my father's experience aboard a super cruise liner where he and most of the old poeple on board contracted some terrible infection that almost killed them and this was before the Covid Cruise Lines came along ,...
03.02.2024
SCREAMING TOMATOES
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...
03.02.2024
CIDER PARK
Looking at some tramps in cider park i feel sorry for the poor starving pets as their masters swill down cider and they shiver in the cold , the musing is seen and spoken through the eyes of the dog...
03.01.2024
DEATH
Upon seeing a cold cadaver staring back people begin to timidly tread in fear of the dead circling round as though it be some spectral apparition of dread . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
02.29.2024
MACHO MAN
Twenty years ago it came as quite a shock when someone we were living with became bisexual especially as they'd been such a lady killer and then became a maneater still what seemed such a big squeal is now an...
02.28.2024
WATERLOO
A poem about falling into destitution especially ex soldiers and sailors who you find in the beggars brigade of most British towns and how easy it is , "lest we forget " that we are all in their debt. ---...
02.28.2024
DOOM IN THE ROOM
Living as an artist's muse, you can understand the expression of "The Doom In The Room." What artists don't realize is that their egos can be so burdensome to everyone else. Probably, this is how they have to be in...
02.27.2024
O C D
This is a musing I wrote after listening to my father, who had 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...
02.26.2024
COVID
This invisible foe of fear is here our café laite life styles are over we're living like trappist monk in self isolation cells our secular society has all but been defunk . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson5/message
02.25.2024
OXFAM
The 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...
02.24.2024
ODE TO A TOAD
Paint 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...
02.23.2024
HELLS ANGELS
The Belles Angels a bunch of hell raising Harrogate girls all leather an lace with lipstick an curls they murdered the midnight hour an slaughtered sobriety swapping sex an saliva like a real lady Godiva , to all those super...
02.22.2024
SHYLOCK
A person who's cranial capacity is cast by abject austerity remains of that mind set even though they may elevate themselves to a privileged position of prosperity it will always have the mentality of a miser . --- Send in a...
02.21.2024
THE SPECIAL BREW CREW
For 20 years, we used to revel in bonhomie at our favorite haunt, the Montpellier Quarter in Harrogate. We were known as the Montpellier Mice, who were eventually picked off by the birds of prey. The pubs we frequented, the...

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Poetry episodes:

STARGATE

TITANIC

DIY

FIFTY SHADES OF GREY

RAGMAN ROCKEFELLER

NIRVANA

GRETA

TIK TOK ROCK

ROAD RAGE

ENVY

SPRING CLEANING

PROFUMO

BIG JUDD

GOOGLE

MERCANTILE

ENVY

REVOLTING

MIDNIGHT THUNDER

A PROMISED LAND

A NAVY BLUE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

ROBIN HOOD

THE WOKING TO WATERLOO

BARKINGHAM PALACE

THE GOD FATHER

MEDUSA

THE MUSTANG MEN

THE LAUGHING BREXITEER

BLOOD RAIN

LUST

GEMINI

A LOVE AFFAIR

BLUE GIN

THE MINUTE PAST MIDNIGHT TRAIN

WOKING TO WATERLOO

GRANDAD

BLIND DATE

WHITE DEATH

SCREAMING TOMATOES

CIDER PARK

DEATH

MACHO MAN

WATERLOO

DOOM IN THE ROOM

O C D

COVID

OXFAM

ODE TO A TOAD

HELLS ANGELS

SHYLOCK

THE SPECIAL BREW CREW