Night brings the cows home.

American proverbs
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

We spend more on cows than the poor.

quote by Gordon Brown
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

The Scottish Cow

They call you a cow
When you walk down the street
That doesn't make any sense to me,
As I have been to a farm once before
And cows there, I have seen.
So I would like to know why
You are called that name
And what does it really mean,
As you don't look or act like a cow
But maybe there's something, I haven't seen.
Your daughters bow their head
Whenever they are next to you
As though as they are ashamed,
Is it their fault for that name your called
If not, then who is to be blamed.
Women still point at you
And the men they still smile
Whenever that you walk by
I still don't understand the name your called,
But maybe one day, I will ask you why.

[...] Read more

poem by Randy McClave
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Dead Cow Farm

An ancient saga tells us how
In the beginning the First Cow
(For nothing living yet had birth
But Elemental Cow on earth)
Began to lick cold stones and mud:
Under her warm tongue flesh and blood
Blossomed, a miracle to believe:
And so was Adam born, and Eve.
Here now is chaos once again,
Primeval mud, cold stones and rain.
Here flesh decays and blood drips red,
And the Cow’s dead, the old Cow’s dead.

poem by Robert Graves
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Cursed cows have short horns.

Chinese proverbs
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.

quote by Nikki Giovanni
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Dogs bark and cows chew grass.

Corsican proverbs
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

The cow has no owner.

Maasai proverbs
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

quote by Abbie Hoffman
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

All cows are black in the dark.

Hungarian proverbs
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Harrow before the cow.

Myanmar proverbs
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Harrow before?the cow.

Burmese proverbs
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Kiss till the cow comes home.

quote by Francis Beaumont
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Man cannot be chaste.

One bull can manage ten cows.
One cow cannot stand ten bulls.
A woman is at ease to be chaste.
To be so is man’s distaste
29.05.2001, Berh

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Even ill-natured cows give milk.

German proverbs
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Know Your Mother

A cow knows which her calf is.
A calf knows which its cow is.
God knows me who see not Him.
Instead, I know my mother.

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Horse Draws Man a Cow

'Stupid Cow! ' prospective mother in law hissed
Princess Bride, shimmering 'Old Horse', and giggled
Banishing each other to their hindly quarters
Loving Colt today also a dashing groom hoofed, in bridles

Old Horse to bridled colt, yelling across the lawn
'I taste it! The grass is greener on the other siiiiiide...! '
Stupid Cow fuming, stamping Old Horse's pawn
'That Old Horse can now gallop home! - Go on for a ride! '

Dashing groom huffing, nervous and perplexed
Spectators murmuring behind powdery carnations
Maids exchanging glances perturbed, stupid cow vexed
Uncle Colin eyeing Glenda's mocha rum fondants,

Huffing, perplexed groom accompanied by bestman
An entourage of suited jockeys behind them
Pleading, whispering that it was 'Stupid Cow's day, hun'
As Old Horse neighed all the way home

[...] Read more

poem by Sylvi Sylva
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Cows do not indulge in horseplay.

Jamaican proverbs
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Milkcow Calf Blues

(Robert Johnson)
Tell me, milk cow, what on earth is wrong with you?
Tell me, milk cow, what on earth is wrong with you?
Well, well, you have a new calf, hoo hoo, and your milk is turnin' blue
Your calf is hungry, and I believe he needs a suck
[Spoken:] Now, you know that calf done got hungry
Your calf is hungry, and I believe he needs a suck
Well, now, but the milk is turnin' blue, hoo hoo, and I believe he's outta luck
Now I feel like milkin' and my, cow won't come
I feel like churnin' it and my, milk won't turn
I'm cryin' plea-hease, please, don't do me wrong
You can give-a right milk and butter, now, baby, you-hoo, will stay at home
My milk cow been ramblin', hoo hoo, for miles around
My milk cow been ramblin', hoo hoo, for miles around
She been troublin' some other bull cow, hoo hoo
Lord, in this man's town

song performed by Eric Clapton
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Cows forget that they were calves.

Russian proverbs
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!