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Meadowhead Bard

Random and surreal poetry satire and short stories.

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  • Cannon Fodder.

    Retirement. If you’ve always paid up your taxes, With no omissions or laxness, Now that you have retired, As to what you aspired, The governments taken its axes. Meadowhead Bard.       Read more

  • My little bod

    I’ve had it nearly seventy one years, It doesn’t have cogs levers or gears. Often overworked, misused and abused but still never burned out or fused. On each side there’s an arm, At the top two eyes full of charm. At the bottom two feet, still quite fleet The roofs lost its thatch, the hands… Read more

  • The Yahoo

    How do you like your protest songs or poems? Serious, or satirical? I’m not very good at writing serious stuff like Dylan writes, but sometimes a bit of satire, can make a point, and it can stick in the mind like a comedians punch line, or an ear worm. So let me know what you… Read more

  • My hero

    Oh how admire the young woman, I write of in my little tribute. A song from Bob Dylan’s Infidels, could quite easily have been about her. The song I refer to, is of course Licence to Kill, follows a brief extract. “Well he worships at an altar of a stagnant pool, and when he sees… Read more

  • a ghost story.

    Hello readers, today I offer you you a little ghost story, I challenged myself to write a normal type story, well it’s not quite that, but I hope you enjoy it. Todays Dylan quote “ My patron saint is fighting with a ghost, he’s always off somewhere when I need him most” Good Eh? Please… Read more

  • a bit of Yorkshire.

    For those of you not familiar with the Yorkshire dialect, that language within a language! A “wesher” can be a washer (a metal disc with a hole) or a washing machine. With thanks to David Bowie for the timbre of the thing. Domestic Pressure. With domestic life, I just can’t cope, Under pressure, Under pressure.… Read more

  • freedom

    The answers in the heading. Read more

  • letter to America.

    First todays quote from Bob Dylan. ”They’re no good the cards that you’re holding, unless they’re from another world” From Series of Dreams. Letter to America. I thought I’d write a letter “Dear Mr American” What did you see, when you voted for that man? Did you see someone that would always speak the truth?… Read more

  • Me Myself and I

    I spend all of my time with myself, I’m quite good company. But without my wife and friends, I’d be totally lost at see. All my friends with me. I don’t have an iphone, but I’m never alone, I have all my friends with me. I don’t travel abroad, ‘cause I can’t afford, to take… Read more

  • toxic

    What is a musktrump? A musktrump is what happens if you mix two toxic elements together. It results in an explosion, and production of a foul smelling gas. Read more