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Meadowhead Bard

Random and surreal poetry satire and short stories.

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  • Bird on a Wire.

    An old girl friend once said to me “If you like Bob Dylan you’ll like Leonard Cohen” That’s true to a certain extent, Cohen has written some beautiful songs, but as some say they can’t tolerate Dylan’s voice, that slow drawl of cohen irks me. Songs such as “Hallelujah” but even more to my taste Read more

  • Down the Highway.

    If I had a freeway billboard, I’d panic, I’d have materialised in the USA, we have motorways where I live. We don’t really have billboards in the UK either just the odd decrepit caravan or trailer advertising some obscure product or service littering up a field. Maybe that decrepit vehicle may have “Just Stop Oil” Read more

  • The Gift of Warmth.

    The gift of warmth would be good. I’m colder than a cold person, in a cold place, with no clothes on and all the windows open. Where did that twisted lyric of the first line of the poem come from ? It’s got to be Dylan, but what is it ? Cold. It’s cold out Read more

  • I’m Not An Old Man, I am A Man That is Old.

    Most certainly not ! Last year I was struggling with the aging process, after four years of the building of the Bentley model diversion, it was like I was waking up four years older, but going from my 60s into my 70s made it worse. Just getting used to that then my burns accident kind Read more

  • Deadly Fungus.

    This isn’t me I’ve written about, but you all know him, her or one of their kind, there’s enough of them out there to go round. Shades of Dylan here again and possibly a bit of Woody Guthrie. I started off thinking of Guthrie’s “Mean Talking Blues” I’m always afraid of plagiarism though, so ended Read more

  • He Not Busy Being Born Is Busy Dying.

    I love that line “He Not Being Born Is Busy Dying” from Bob Dylan’s “It’s alright Ma I’m Only bleeding” from the album Bringing It All Back Home” There’s a hint of Dylan in my verses third line also “ Try imagining a place where it’s always safe and warm, come in she said I’ll Read more

  • Pat Carrot and Billy the Squid.

    GretaThunberg, is still my favourite person, outside my family, and friends, long may she continue the fight. I love cryptic crosswords, but had never noticed an anagram of Greta is “great” How apt is that ? Thank you to the friend who pointed that one out to me. There are a few other famous people Read more

  • Rainy Day Blues.

    Which do I prefer Mountains or the beach, I prefer tho beach and the sea. But when the sea is inland, I’m not so fond. Last Friday and Saturday here in the UK it rained and it rained. I was inspired to write the following based on Bob Dylan’s “Everything Is Broken” Rainy Day Blues. Read more

  • Masterpiece Painted, What Next ?

    “Train wheels runnin’ through the back of my memory, as the daylight hours do retreat. Someday, everything’s gonna be smooth like a rhapsody, when I paint my masterpiece”. From Bob Dylan’s “When I Paint My Masterpiece” From the album Greatest Hits Volume Two” I’ve already “painted” my masterpiece, that being the Bentley model in the Read more

  • Big Bill, Nell, and the Jack of Hearts.

    What excites me at the moment, is also what scares me, Tuesdays 26 August I have my first open mike night. It’s not actually my first public reading, I once took my model cars to a care home, did a talk on them, and some poetry reading. I actually got paid for that and, gave Read more