Screenshot

Meadowhead Bard

Random and surreal poetry satire and short stories.

  • Do You Remember, That Little Word Please ?

    Sometimes I think I live in a country of parrots and apes. Now over to the Judge of all that’s crass, banal and inane “The winner is “Can I get…..”It doesn’t really surprise me that much to hear younger people saying it, their minds alas often still quite malleable, but to hear older people saying… Read more

  • I Walk On Pins and Needles, I Hope My Tongue Don’t Slip.

    “Children cry for mother I tell them, “Mother took a trip” Well, I walk on pins and needles I hope my tongue don’t slip” A line from Bob Dylan’s song “Call Letter Blues” an out-take from his album Blood On the Tracks” later to appear on the out|take album Biograph. Call Letter Blues most likely… Read more

  • Sit Down My Love.

    This is a strange one, it sort of came to me as if I was talking to myself, then I realised it’s what my wife would say if she expressed herself in as wordy way as I. I have had three close encounters with the holder of the scythe. our motorhome once overturned on the… Read more

  • Crosswords and Cross Words.

    It’s Sunday today, I have written Mondays post, but tomorrow I’m doing a trial for a new job, so won’t have time to write, so I’m sorry it has to be a repeat. More Than Five Things I do For Fun. Burning logs on my fire, satisfying my desire, watching corrupt politicians get fired,Kicking dry… Read more

  • The Great Escape.

    If I could erase a movie from my mind and watch it afresh, it would be the following. Can you guess what it is from my abridged version. The Great Escape. Flop, flop, frogman’s flippers on tile, Benjamin this is not your styleLaze around the pool all day, have you no ambition, you don’t know… Read more

  • Little Red Wagon, Little Red Bike.

    I strikes me these prompts are aimed at modern people, with modern distorted beliefs, which bend and twist minds into thinking in a capitalist, consumerist, way, the must have more way. It’s quite simple really “”You do what you must do, and you do it well” a line from Bob Dylan’s “Buckets of Rain” From… Read more

  • The Book That Took Me By Surprise.

    Never a particular fan of Ben Elton, a friend recommended his novel “Stark” A story of the words collapse the super wealthiest failed attempt to escape into space. THE BOOK THAT TOOK ME BY SURPRISE. I was laying on the floor, stars swimming in my eyesI must admit that book took me by surpriseI was… Read more

  • Dancing Mickey’s

    I remember when I was a kid. In the Sheffield outdoor market, a trader selling toys, I can hear him now, his spiel “Come and get your dancing Mickey’s everyone a dancer!” Two for the price of one today, the second I wrote a while ago, based arround Strictly Come dancing, a British tv show… Read more

  • Genie in a Bottle.

    My dear friend in India says “People nowadays have such a short attention span because of the instant gratification of the screen” but you dear readers are going to prove her wrong. Not only are you going to read today’s poem from beginning to end, but you are going to find someway of ordering my… Read more

  • Ghengis Khan and His Brother Don.

    “Genghis Khan and his brother Don, Couldn’t keep on keeping on, we’ll climb that bridge after it’s gone, after we’re way past it”. From Bob Dylans “You Ain’t Going Nowhere” Greatest Hits Volume 2 album. Please note the line including the Name Hitler says “UNDER HATED” HISTRIONICS. Vlad the Impaler was over rated, Hitler under… Read more