WHAT ROUGH BEAST ...

Issue 50 of Lighten Up Online, a webzine that specialises in humorous verse, featured two of my poems this month: The Vegan Lion and the poem you'll find below which was submitted to LUPO's competition on the theme of 'Beastly Exchanges'.
Light verse is not greatly respected in literary circles but poetry, like Heaven, is a house with many mansions so there's always space to be found for a skittish sonnet or hilarious haiku.  
My ten-line poem rhymes outwards from the two central lines.

SHE DIDN’T UDDER A WORD …

Some friendly overtures fall flat.

How now brown cow! I called out loud

and rapped the gate but was ignored. 

How now! Again, with dulcet tone,

I importuned the brindled beast,

expecting, well, a moo at least

but she was on her moo-bile phone,

an i-phone zombie in the sward,

so I cleared off, expression cowed,

denied the chance of bovine chat.