Animal Cow Poems

He wears thick gloves when he strings the barbed wire,
fashioning a thorny fence from prickly metal spines,
reminding me that cattle like to know the boundaries,
the...

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Dolphin is winning it! The Picklemeister said.
You are crazy! Cow is right up there, way ahead!
Racing to the finish with a final enormous bound.
Spectators so...

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Herbert did not say much about his proficient reading cow.
But she read at an eighth-grade level, none of us knew how.
We saw her reading the...

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Madame Mystic Moo is a cosmos Queen
We know her to be kind, she is rarely mean.
She shows us the way with her crystal ball.
A true...

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The cow waltzes around the lamp post three times

MOOOO!

Cow’s milk
Mother’s milk
The milk of human kindness

Why did you not love me mother?
Why did you demean me...

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I know I might sound crazy
and perhaps I am insane,
but my trip to the farm
exploded on my brain.
I know that I know, that I know
I...

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Leaking through the worn, gray boards, like a trickle from a dream. Where gentle thoughts raised prayers through the loft, tiers spilled out tears, remembering...

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how do you like my thongs? the corpulent cow asked me.
I heard my children behind her chuckle with a loud tee-hee-hee.
They were looking at her...

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Betsy, the sweet girl, was such a beauty
Never slack on milk, she did her duty
Pouring out her supply, like a fountain
Feeding on the rye across...

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She kisses away the weariness,
Burdens – inklings of the mystery
Birthed by her dream, hope
Remembered in the evening when
The calf nuzzled – her nourishing, nurturing
Gentle as...

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Darling diva cow puts on airs, said Ruth Could.
Weird for her usual smell is nicotine putrid.
No one can stand the stench of her pores or...

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Poised on a farm in Carolina
Not labeling yields “made in China”
There lived a cow and goat
With milk they couldn’t promote
Because their best milk caused angina




Funny,...

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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...

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You ask her she said, giving me a bit of a poke.
I don’t even know her name I said to this brazen folk.
She might not...

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