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Meadowhead Bard

Random and surreal poetry satire and short stories.

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  • It’s Alright Ma I’m Only Bleeding.

    I’ve top and tailed my poem today with two verses from Bob Dylan’s “It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding”) I physically wept the other night when I saw the picture of that awful insane orange “man” (Too good a word) posing as Jesus Christ. I was afraid before, now I’m very afraid, in fact terrified!… Read more

  • The Family Thief.

    It’s just over a year ago now, I was in hospital with my burns, I was in a mess, but it didn’t stop my sons girlfriend, now soon to be daughter in law coming to visit me. Jenny is the best thing to happen to us, for a long, long while, we love her to… Read more

  • Mama’s and Leonie’s

    We live in Sheffield UK, the home of the Crucible Theatre where the world snooker championships are held. About 100 Metres up the road from the Crucible is our favourite restaurant, Mama’s and Leonie’s. It was opened in 1968 the same year my old classic car was built. But the best thing about Mama’s and… Read more

  • Norman is an Island.

    I started writing this about petty little tech troubles, but it’s ended up a pretty good bit of nonsense, that actually makes sense. In a nonsensical way. Apologies for the naughty bit at the end, bottom, oh I don’t know, whatever you want to call it. Norman is An Island Norman is an island, so… Read more

  • Trying Hard

    I’m trying hard to stay afloat, I’m about to loose one of the things I love most, working in a little DIY shop. So today just a new silly little poem, and something from the archive. One thing from the latter “Soon to be in-law daughter” She wasn’t quite that at the time of writing,… Read more

  • An Analogy.

    We don’t call them High Schools in the UK. When I was at school kid it would have been Secondary Modern. Not really a place of learning, just somewhere where one had to go, on the pretext of learning. I thought I’d lost the little story below, it was one of the first things I’d… Read more

  • Andy Honks

    This is about positive change, but it isn’t about me thankfully. I think I’ve already covered positive change in a previous post. When one works in a shop, as both my wife and I do, there are always certain customers that, how can I say? “Not too good at personal hygiene” so we always have… Read more

  • Pennythick the Clown.

    Being dyspeptic and not being able to smell one’s worms probably. Can be helpful sometimes, for example today’s prompt, I am not going to write about exercise? that would be boring, so I’m going to write about exorcism instead. After all I can never see “How to exorcise demons” coming up on the prompt. What… Read more

  • In Debt We Are Swimming.

    If the story of life was written as a book, I would read it over and over again, and probably still not understand it. One thing though I would learn is never pay more for anything than you have to, especially if it makes others rich for doing basically nothing. When I was a kid,… Read more

  • A Nonviolent Book.

    One of my favourite books is called “The Trustee From the Toolroom” by Neville Shute” The main protagonist shares my first name, he is also a model engineer as am I, so it would be easy to shoehorn myself into that character. You have two for the price of one today, my planned poem (The… Read more