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Meadowhead Bard

Random and surreal poetry satire and short stories.

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  • They’re No Good The Cards That You’re Holding, Unless They’re From Another World.

    Title, a line from Bob Dylan’s Series of Dreams. I love the idea that the only way some people can win is if their luck comes from some other world or dimension. It somehow gives weight to the theory that many world leaders and mega Rich are actually aliens, just take a look into the… Read more

  • I Work in a DIY Shop Babe, Can’t Buy a Thrill.

    Title line stolen and mangled from Bob Dylan’s “It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry” Apart from the “F” word, it would have to be “Amazing” It is so over used, a real cliche, “Perfect” is closing in on the rails, but I still think it will be pipped at… 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

  • 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

  • My Name It Ain’t Nothin.

    ”My name it ain’t nothin, my age it means less etc, etc” A line from Bob Dylan’s “With God On Our Side” This is my slant on that line. My Name. My name’s not important, and neither am II’m hear a few years and then I will dieNo illusions of grandeur no false pretensionsI just… Read more

  • Oblivions Gates.

    If I could un-invent anything ? What a question that is. I would love to un-invent Weaponry but where do you start with spears or clubs ? If you want me to be flippant it would be smart phones, if there was a devil, they would definitely have been his work. They’re addictive, manipulative and… Read more

  • 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