If there is one group of farm animals that are eminently watchable but largely ignored in art, it is cattle. Horses and sheep have found their way onto canvas via the brushes of some very famous artists, but few pictures of cows have made it into the nation’s galleries. There is nothing more relaxing than sitting quietly on a sunny day, watch this most graceful of creatures. Conversely, given a cold damp morning as they line up for the milking parlour, their glamour is instantly replaced by mud and muck. However in a photograph this is soon forgotten…
In the Bovine Olympics
They’re having a race,
To see who can eat the most.
They hope that Mo Farah,
Don’t turn up with his ‘barrow’
And pip them all at the post!
They munch at the grass,
Rhythmically not fast,
You can tell that they’re engrossed!
It’s strange to concede,
That as you watch them feed,
They will feed you as a roast!
© Baldock Bard 2013
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