About the Poem

Cows are big four-legged animals that stand around aimlessly in fields. If you creep up on a cow and give it a big shove, the cow falls over. Ergo, the sport of cow tipping. So what on earth is fly tipping?

Style

Rhyming poem

Length

8 lines

Key Stage

KS1, KS2, KS3

Author

Paul Curtis

Huntin’ Shootin’ And Tippin’

There was a craze not long ago
A kind of country pursuit
A sport known as cow tipping
Perpetrated by callow youth

Now due to the recession
There is a new craze to report
A rural epidemic, fly tipping
It’s popular but not much of a sport.