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Meadowhead Bard

Random and surreal poetry satire and short stories.

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  • Do Not Dilute Me Oh My Darling.

    Looking on from some foreign country, it probably looks like we here in the UK are making a pretty good job of holding onto our culture. The trooping of the colour, Black Rod opening parliament, The Edinburgh Tattoo, even fox hunting is refusing to die. All the latter though aren’t where true culture lies, true… Read more

  • The Law is an Ass, and so am I.

    “Fools making laws for the breaking of jaws, and the sound of the keys as they clink, and there’s no time to think” From Bob Dylan’s “No Time to Think” From the album “Street Legal” Enough of the serious of the last week or so, back to my nonsense, but it does have a sting… Read more

  • Not as Advertised.

    I would have my biography titled “Not as Advertised” Because I’m a man, and men are expected to macho, tattoos, swaggering walk, bulging muscles etc, etc. I’m none of the above, I am in the very strictest meaning of the word a “Gentleman” you won’t find aggression or violence here. So on the theme of… Read more

  • Here’s to the People who Built your Wealth and fought your wars.

    The first thing I want to say in answer to this prompt is that it’s ageist. It assumes bloggers parents would have been alive at their age e.g young. At the age I am both my parents had died, my father just two weeks after my mother. They had both worked from the age of… Read more

  • The Law of the Jungle.

    I feel I must apologise my posts have been quite sombre recently. My intention today was for a a bit more of my nonsense, and I did try, honest! I planned and actually started writing about rescinding the law of gravity. Some how though it didn’t work out and the demise of our world won… Read more

  • The House of Stainless Steel

    My little verse today inspired from a Bob Dylan song, “Don’t Fall Apart on me tonight” from the album Infidels. I ain’t too good at conversation, girl, so you might not know exactly how I feel but if I could, l’d bring you to the mountaintop, girl, and build you a house made out of… Read more

  • Swings, Roundabouts and See-Saws.

    I read the fantastic news in our local area magazine, the children’s play area in our local is to be restored. I thought of the swings and roundabouts, and then I thought about the see-saw, which somehow reminded of someone. So the first thing I did was write the following. See-saw Man. His voice is… Read more

  • The Path of Simplicity.

    I used to aspire to be wealthy, in a modest way, I discovered, probably too late, it’s all just an illusion, propagated by the ones who can acquire more wealth than our wildest dreams. Three score years and ten and what legacy do they leave behind, just the lust for more power, more wealth. What… Read more

  • Gob Stopper.

    I’m more of a savoury person myself, but gobstoppers, well I can think of many a person, I would like to feed with them. Ranging from people with foul mouths, to politicians and so called statesmen. Personally I think the word “Statseman” will soon disappear from our dictionaries, because most of the “things” we have… Read more

  • The Pit the Pendulum and the Raven.

    I wonder why the thought of the theoretic Dooms Day Clock popped into my head the other day ? Maybe I ought stop watching the news. The idea of time ticking away whilst the clown princes pull the strings of fools making them dance to a stuccato tune and play their evil games with our… Read more