Meadowhead Bard

Random and surreal poetry satire and short stories.

the-rich

  • “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 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

  • 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

  • Through a Mirror Darkly.

    A news article, that I found interesting, was about two twins that had built the world’s biggest model railway. As a model maker it caught my eye, but I can easily see where others may have found it boring. Practical skills are gradually disappearing and I find that so sad. My answer to yesterdays prompt,… Read more

  • The animal kingdom.

    Spirituality has a massive impact on my life, it is possibly the thing that scares me the most, second to greed, and these two things are linked inextricably. The thought that people can be manipulated and controlled so easily is obnoxious to me. The sooner we learn to control our own destiny the better. It’s… Read more