Question

poetry identification about beef and cattle

Answer 1

Do you mean:
- you want me to identify a specific poem (paste a line or description), or
- you want examples of poems about cattle/beef, or
- you want an original poem on that theme?

I can do any of those. If you have lines from a poem, paste them and I’ll try to identify the poem and author. If you want examples or an original piece, say which (and tell me a preferred style: short, comic, elegiac, pastoral, modern, sonnet, etc.).

If you’d like, here’s a short original poem about cattle to get started:

Rough hide low and luminous at dusk,
hooves mark the field like slow-time drums.
They bend to grass—simple liturgy—
chew the day into a sweeter shape.

A farmer’s shadow moves between them,
hands remembering the old language:
the names of fences, the weight of weather,
how the herd remembers his steadiness.

When winter comes they stand like questions,
warm breath clouding the thin sky;
even in the bright ledger of beef and sale
there is a slow, soft sovereignty.

Tell me which direction you prefer.