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Meadowhead Bard

Random and surreal poetry satire and short stories.

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  • Mood Swings and Roundabouts

    This is a complicated subject, I will try and keep the intro short as posible. “Black, black, Bible black” a quote “ish” from Dylan Thomas’s “Under Milk Wood” Then from my favourite Dylan (Bob) the words “Most of the time” where he sings of a lost love and doesn’t think about her “Most of the… Read more

  • The Hammer Song

    I am asked by the prompt “What skill would I like to instantly acquire?” First of all a song called “If I Was a Carpenter” came into my mind, but that wasn’t right, what I was actually remembering was a Pete Seeger song. I looked it up, I thought it was called “”If I Had… Read more

  • Diet of Madness.

    I haven’t grown this year, I’ve shrunk! I lost weight after My cancer then five year or so later put it back on whilst in hospital and recovering from burns. I got back down to 11.5 st just before we came away, so now I’m enjoying putting a little back on. A good old favourite… Read more

  • Run Rabbit Run.

    We are the many that feed the few, and you know what? Most of us can’t even see it, they have the wool so firmly over our eyes. So yes, if I could speak to my 20 year old self, although even that may have been a bit late, I’d say “Get out now”. I… Read more

  • Putting Up Bounderies.

    I quite like to challenge myself, firstly with coming up with a twist on the prompt, then turning the whole thing around. Being nearly 72 now I no longer have now my parents, and one brother who was nine years older than I died four years ago, nevertheless the below still works in principal. This… Read more

  • How sweet the World Without the Monsters.

    Sometimes I write these things, then think, should I call the asylum now and have them take me in, but then again it’s writing it down that keeps me sane, maybe! HOW SWEET THE WORLD WITHOUT MONSTERS. Mars bars are only small, they fit into a GalaxySo to think people could live there is surely… Read more

  • How Do I Get a Meme?

    I genuinely didn’t know what a meme was. I had to look it up. So, please Mr prompt Ai thing person, can we have some prompts for wrinklies? MEME What’s a meme something obscene?Or something with which my windows to clean?Is it two Me’s a name from over seas?Some kind of animal nobody sees? Will… Read more

  • Pulling a Habit Out of a Hat

    I am being asked “What tradition from another country should we adopt?” I trawled the internet for some interesting ones, and asked our dear Prime Minister to choose. Traditions I wrote a letter to Prime Minister Starmer“What do you think would make England calmer?In Spain they like throwing ripe tomatoesIn India coconuts on heads with… Read more

  • When in England

    Historian Alan Clarke coined the phrase “Lions led by donkeys” The phrase originally relating to poor leadership in the First World War. The phrase is still relevant now though, England is indeed led by incompetent’s, but I suppose that’s better than being led by an orange faced clown, or a mad monk. WHEN IN ENGLAND… Read more

  • Here’s a Little Song I Wrote.

    The song “Don’t Worry Be Happy” by Bobby McFerrin always makes me smile, it carries a philosophy that only the lucky few can implement. What gave me the idea for todays poem though was a verse from another Bob Dylan song “Dirge” From his album “Planet Waves” SING A SONG OF FREEDOM. Sing your song… Read more