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Meadowhead Bard

Random and surreal poetry satire and short stories.

  • Land of the Free, Not!

    I’m not just singling out America here, no land is truly free. LAND OF THE FREE, NOT! I did it for America It is the promised landI did it for America with the Bible in my handI did it because I’m the saviour I believe this to be trueI did it because I’m an honest… Read more

  • Shaped By the Shape of Things To Come.

    SHAPED BY THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME. I’m shaped by cruelty, injustice, ignorance and strifeI’m shaped by my brothers, friends parents and wifeI’m shaped by truth, justice, inhumanity and loveI’m shaped by violence, resistance fits me like a glove I’m shaped by things I’m not, of these there are a numberI’m shaped by the… Read more

  • Shaped By the Shape of Things To Come.

    SHAPED BY THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME. I’m shaped by cruelty, injustice, ignorance and strifeI’m shaped by my brothers, friends parents and wifeI’m shaped by truth, justice, inhumanity and loveI’m shaped by violence, resistance fits me like a glove I’m shaped by things I’m not, of these there are a numberI’m shaped by the… Read more

  • The Fly

    Is a fly classed as an animal? Answers on a postcard please. The Fly I would like to be the fly on the wallPresidents, warmongers I could hear them allBe in earshot of all their petty plansKnow what it’s like to be an idiot and understandUnderstand, how small a mind can beSo infinitesimally small it… Read more

  • Tech Knowingly.

    My old car is 58 years old, and can still do its job of getting from A-B .Ok so it runs on petrol and isn’t that efficient, but how many cars would have been scrapped during that period? Using how many resources and causing how much pollution? TECH KNOWINGLY In twenty years I won’t be… Read more

  • The Instruction Book

    Iv’e had on a few serious posts last couple of days, and my ratings have gone down, I can understand that, most people don’t really want to know what’s happening in the world they’d rather hide behind a screen Also, football is a particularly good distraction at the moment, on that note here’s a bit… Read more

  • Yes

    I Learn I learn to crawl, I learn to walk, I learn to eat I learn to talkI learn to do what I am told, when to gamble and when to foldI learn to turn and go forward, when to comply, when to be awkwardI tow the line, I drink the wine, let all believe… Read more

  • The Words Head and Wall Spring to Mind

    I’ve got this habit of banging my head against the wall, it’s no good for me, but I do it to try and help us all. It’s been hotter than a roast potatoes armpit today in the UK, if roast potatoes have armpits that is. I know roast peppers don’t or it would be them.… Read more

  • Child of the 50s

    Obviously, there are countries much worse off than the UK, terrible atrocities for the gain of power, wealth and that all consuming monster called growth. I live in the UK though so I just write about the country I know, everywhere else I can only generalise. CHILD of the FIFTIES. I’m a working class child… Read more

  • Room 101.

    I abandoned the planned post for today, religiously it was contentious. So Mr Prompt is asking for sequels of books, here goes. I can cope with the ending of the tale Ahabs crew deserved to drown,But I think Ishmael should have befriended Moby Dick, took him into townPainted him orange, got him on Twitter, he… Read more