Best Heifers Poems

I was a city born and city bred young fellow,
whose shoes had mostly only touched concrete and tar.
Oh yes I had seen grass, but out on a footy ground
and my entertainment was drinking at a nightclub bar.

As a city bred young bloke I had never...

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From Noonlight to Moonlight 
I'll chance to mention a jaunt once took, along a sloping ridge; coming up steady o'er jakes ravine, cross the creaking pinewood bridge, tethering up the hosses, to a half charred lightening stricken tree; we gazed right down the 'scarpment at...

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Princes dart to take cups and cups run away very very fast. Fear not a well trodden cat and bear not a bead or a pillow when journeying across the lands. Knock at wooded glades. Taste the dew from a Moulton cup and throw two...

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The date’s been set and many will attend
Just the penguin will be wearing his tux
A “come as you are” I did extend 
So expect to see antlers on the bucks

In the heart of Sherwood Forest we’ll meet
Guests will include many from Noah’s ark
Each one I...

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The legacy of a Cowboy,
Can be written in a song;
About the misty mountain passes,
Where the Cowboy’s life belongs;

About the days spent in the saddle,
Punching cattle and mending fence;
At home with mother nature,
Living life in his defense;

All the nights spent under stars,
With the campfire burning low;
Riding...

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I was heading to the bunkhouse, after a wild night on the town
dancing & romancing & one too many round
Back in my wild & woolly days, one more rowdy Saturday night
full of cheap beer & whiskey & the necessary fight
I set Ol' Gus on auto...

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Everything's about satisfying our personal pleasures
Creating our own little oasis with a bed of feathers
But sometime's thorns
Disrupt the norms
Instead of cats and dogs, our pets are heifers


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Farmer Frank
raises redickilous
alliterative animals at
Farmer Frank's 
Furry, Feathery Funny Farm:
  Comedical Cows
  Daffious Donkeys
  Punnious Pigs
  Tongue-in-cheeky Turkeys
  Chortifiable Chickens
  Showoffitty Sheep
  Buffoonic Bulls
  Offbeaten Ostriches
  Goofian Goats
  Hilaric Horses
  Slapstickitty Steer
  Riotful...

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One Saturday some years ago, at a market in Rokeby,
a voice was calling from behind and then caught up with me.
It was Shaun O’Malley at the rear that stopped me for a chat,
dressed in a pair of dungaree’s and probably Irish hat.

“How are you Shaun?”...

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Malnourishment is the song from the pans whose empty hold could offer no more products to be boiled and whirled. They were quite sad having been bought then hung. Hung. Sparkly signalling stale sales. Stale sales were akin to an arguing restaurant and bistro. Whose...

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Cubbie worker…

So you worked on an out station on Cubbie…
Saw the cattle tracks and also the sheep …
You were only a poor boundary rider …
On your straw bed the hut you did sleep…

The Manager ate in the dining room ….
Jackaroo's, silk shirts and ties were...

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Fragrant, warm breezes usher in the Spring,
As flowers awake with faces glowing.
Newly arrived birds bring the songs they sing.
My eyes and ears, see and hear Spring growing.
The farmer's mares and heifers, drop their young,
As he surveys big fields he now must sew.
He tastes sweet Nature's...

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Bright bubbles. Such twirling crystalized hue. In Smokey paper eating wrappers. And dwelling not on a letter. Swelling in importance. Self importance. Ok then play circle bubbles in a packed out front room. Pong is pinging today and a pinny is not a vital asset...

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The implosion of a thought is neither a shred or a shard. In fact it is surely a pulsation of a wisdom whirlpool? Really? How rather radical. And amusing to the laughs of the rhombuses who gather with rhinos to celebrate the correct correspondence from...

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Drunken fairies flutter by hedges,
Friesian heifers graze grass to the edges
Of fields where tufts of meadow grass grow,
Smothering weeds and roots below....

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