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Best Milk Cow Poems


Premium Member Elsie the Borden Milk Cow
Borden’s milk had a gorgeous sidekick cartoon cow, Elsie.
In the Midwest we had Elsie dolls, Elsie curtains, Elsie pins.
I wanted Borden’s milk more than anything in the world.
My cousin had it, because her parents bought it.

My parents bought another brand of milk.
Because it was two...

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Categories: milk cow, animal,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Milk Hewn Lives

While the milk cow hastens 
Toward a worn barn,
Gray as the edges of melancholy,
Erasing the spring, breaking through Summer
Like Sunday, wearing her best suit
Rustling on the wings of Saturday’s robins,
Starving for Monday, while her words
Still the grief that comes from knowing
The week behind her will...

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Categories: milk cow, animal, farm,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things