Meadowhead Bard

Random and surreal poetry satire and short stories.

football

  • TALKING ABOUT FOOTBALL. the CAT WAS TALKING BACK. “I saw someone under my kitchen table, talking to an old tom cat, they were talking about football, the cat was talking back” A line from a Tom Paxton song “Wasn’t that a party ?” I guess that would be American football. It doesn’t matter to me,… Read more

  • I’m loving this prompt, it’s given me the opportunity to have a go at two of my pet hates, which in a weird sort of way amount to the same. Professional football whilst fine as a game, has turned into a moronic tribalistic, charade ruled by money. Then tribalism on the world stage with warmongers… Read more

  • A Stark Comparison.

    I would like to take this opportunity to draw a comparison. A comparison between a professional football player, that has the skill to kick a ball up and down a field, one who often exhibits aggression, is vastly overpaid and worshiped. To a fireman, firewoman, surgeon, or nurse. These people save lives nearly everyday, are… Read more

  • Smoke and Mirrors.

    The English women’s football team have won the European cup, of course it’s not a typical day! But, you know what? Nothing has changed, in a few days all the hoo-ha will have died down, and all the greed, violence and wars will magically reappear. Of course I’m not that naive, I know we all… Read more

  • I Know Nothing,

    I’m an authority, on knowing I don’t know everything, about anything, I would never say I know more than anyone else, that I do know. I also know, that people who know everything never do, and people that know nothing, know they know nothing, so they do know something. So I know that I’m right,… Read more