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Meadowhead Bard

Random and surreal poetry satire and short stories.

dylan

  • 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

  • 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