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Poetry

Steven Richardson

Written and narrated by Steven Richardson Short stories #Poetry #Piano #Comedy #Politics #Religion #Books #Art #Music #Spiritual #Gender #Psychology #Education

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2:33

CAT FLAP

Poetry ·

2020/10/04

A musing for lily age 9 about her cat Sean who's got incredibly fat and stuck in his cat flap due to him being neutered and new front door being fitted without him being measured.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

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0:48

THE RED WINE IDEALIST

Poetry ·

2020/10/03

I asked of a priest who I was living with for a decade "If it be the blood of Christ, how come it weakens the saints and strengthens the sinners" at the time he was a little taken aback but then again we were both floating on red wine at the time. The second poem was in response a friend of mine who used a George Carlin quotation "the cynic is a diapointed idealist", I retorted by saying most idealists pontificate from the privileged position of having their freedom. --- Send in

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2:19

COVID CONFUSION

Poetry ·

2020/09/27

Wearing masks in the covid-19 is causing terrible confusion whilst at a recent coffee bar I was listening to two old English people speaking from behind masks with the young Portuguese /Spanish girl the simple order turned into a comedy of errors or Covid Confusion --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

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1:46

EQUINOX

Poetry ·

2020/09/22

A blue September signals the end of Summers lease and the equinox changes everything including time and tide it's like the season of life has suddenly died. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

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2:19

TRAVELLING MAN

Poetry ·

2020/09/20

Setting off on a world tour in the seventies was nothing like today no mobiles or telephones just your thumb and finger for transport we hitch hiked thousands of miles around the world . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

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2:14

GROUND ZERO

Poetry ·

2020/09/16

The financial crisis of covid-19 has caused devastation around the world it almost feels like some sort of political pretension, monopoly money trillions of dollars in quantitative easing and financial freezing, but it's nothing new the bank of England was built out of this sort of financial collapse issuing what they called consoles obviously to console the souls of the then terrified investors. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

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2:29

TATTOO

Poetry ·

2020/09/14

What was once the stamp of a tramp or cut into criminal class is now adorning the face and the feet of royalty ,aristocrat and the supermodel chic. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

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2:12

YOU'VE CROSSED THE LINE.

Poetry ·

2020/08/30

A musing about walking into the old post office Harrogate which was like stepping back into another time, i fell out of sync and was quickly brought back in to line as though I'd committed a serious crime. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

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1:58

THE LION THING

Poetry ·

2020/08/27

Looking 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 castrated, so cruel it died of pneumonia because of cold and cruelty terrible how man leaves these beautiful beasts from the Savannah to suffer in a cage. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

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1:32

A VIRGIN DEATH

Poetry ·

2020/08/26

A poem about lord Kitchener's sabre rattling speeches/sermons,his soldiers were dying at the rate of 6000 a day aged between 16-18, he had printed into their war guide books that they must avoid wine and women meaning 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://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

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2:08

BLUE BLOODS

Poetry ·

2020/08/24

Blue bloods are quite simply mad , they treat normal reality as some sort of bland banality rules don't exist and the rest of the mortality is merely kept around to entertain them in constant joviality. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

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1:43

ROAD RAGE.

Poetry ·

2020/08/23

A musing about road rage and how it affects all of us even the elderly and how when we're boiling in a tin can we quickly revert back to using our primitive brain stems --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

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1:42

TEN CIGARETTES TILL DAWN

Poetry ·

2020/08/22

If you partner starts wearing black leather reading Mein Kampt and Le Marquis Dr Sade order yourself a stab proof vest. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

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1:53

PERDITION

Poetry ·

2020/08/19

All 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 litered with alot of the righteous as well as the rotten. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

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1:52

BIG JUDD.

Poetry ·

2020/08/12

In 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 and to most people I would think almost incomprehensible. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

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1:58

LIQUID SIN

Poetry ·

2020/08/11

8 am Early morning in the Witherspoon's bar , high functioning alcoholics start the day with a little liquid sin within their cream coloured Celtic skin once beat the heart's of Gunga Din. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

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2:11

AMBRE SOLAIRE.

Poetry ·

2020/08/10

A poem for supertramp who had a unique way of curing his halitosis by drinking your bathroom cabinet bare mixing aftershave aperitifs but I say beware beware of the AMBRE SOLAIRE. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

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1:55

SERMON OF A SQUIRREL.

Poetry ·

2020/08/09

Covid 19 . As seen through the eyes of a squirrel. Watching the squirrels fighting for scraps from the dustbins whilst under lock down ,they appear so confident without us I think possibly the only thing they'd miss about our disappearance would be the leftovers of Ben and Jerry's ice cream. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

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1:38

MACHO MAN

Poetry ·

2020/08/08

20 years ago it came as quite a shock when someone we knew became bisexual especially as they'd been such a lady killer and then became such a man eater, still what then seemed such a big squeal is now an every day done deal. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

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1:00

SCREAMING TOMATOES.

Poetry ·

2020/08/06

An English king's breakfast could consist of swine flesh, various embryos fungi ,congealed fried blood , kippers, herring's, pike , roach snipe bird, woodcock, venison, cockles or pilchards . Thinking about the Buddhist belief of reincarnation wouldn't it be a devine justice if these gargantuan gluttonous came back as screaming red tomatos. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson5/message

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