The bull ...

Just beyond the gate we could see the cows - 

Amongst them was a bull - 

My heart raced - 

There was the sign on the metal gate, bull in field - 

I remembered the stories I'd heard about bulls - 

Boys were being tossed over tall hedges Alyson had said - 

They smashed gates to pieces Julia said - 

Yet this was the way we had to go - 

Martin scanned the wide field with his binoculars - 

The bull's very muscular he said - 

It's like the Minotaur Alyson said - 

Gingerly, we crossed the field - 

But the bull ignored us, potent, unpredictable, magnificent in his shining skin - 

11.45

Wednesday 27 July 2016

Swinhoe Lakes

Northumbria