'round
I have to leave today
if only
for a while
like
his mother leaving for a walk
around the Hundred Acre Wood
and he asking before
would you like
me
to go with you with her replying
no
but when I return
greet me as if
I had been away
a long time
no mother or
another
to whom to say
that
to
or hear that from
though
needing to leave
also
to return
in a later hour
of this day
having gone around
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Christopher Milne tells the story of the walk and the question in The Enchanted Places. This Christopher better known as Christopher Robin. (And I nearly forgot mentioning that his name was how I got my own. Christopher, not Robin but for him, anyway, my mom really liking the stories.)
photograph by Lukasz Szmigiel on Unsplash
Practice over Years
(makes imperfect)
Silly
Practice
Silly
Bear
Silly
And old
Bear
Retired on honey
To the house of Mister
Sanders
(second S
backward like
Z
or zed for
England)
And could I live there
With all the honey
And all
The company
I am
(after all)
Silly
And old
And have configured
Me
To be
A bear of very
Little brain
Which is
In
No way
The way that I was named
My mother being
Very smart
And who liked the stories
And so named me for
The keeper
So to say
Of
The bear
Rabbit
The owl
And without doubt
The Piglet
Silly
One
By one
No doubt
But we shall all have tea
And that
(without doubt)
Is smart
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Photo by Luke Galloway on Unsplash
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Prayers for Alan Alexander
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Yesterday was A. A. Milne’s birthday
I didn’t know
And didn’t learn
Before posting time
(which sounds like horses
on the track
sorry, horses)
Anyway and, oh, bother
For not knowing
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Nothing new to pray for
Regarding supplication,
I suppose,
Except that A. A. be welcomed
Into heaven
And his boy who died some years
After and for us
Some years
Ago
And that both and all
Go on to play in
The Hundred Acre Wood
Until it’s time for honey
Then rest upon the bridge,
Followed by
Trudging up the stairs
To bed
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C L Couch
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Sunset in the forest.
Photo by Marek Piwnicki on Unsplash
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(x = space)
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Public Bear
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Pooh
Has entered
The public domain
Welcome, Pooh
And Piglet
Tigger
Rabbit
Kanga and Roo
Owl
And the blond boy
With buckles on his shoes
Who made a world
So that our world
Might be
Prettier
And kinder
And we can hope
A little wiser
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(Public Domain)
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Play Day Stood in a Hundred-Acre Wood
It’s a dark and rainy day
But Christopher Robin wants to play
If Pooh and Piglet can find a brolly
Then all will have fun, and all will be jolly
They shall have tea and toast and honey
Much more fun than pots of money
Then they’ll go home by Mister Sanders
Having good times from all their wanders
And England shall have a sunny day
When Christopher Robin will want to play
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Christopher (Robin) Couch
Photo by Mary Sill on Unsplash
Mister Sanders Speaks
I may not know much
But I can wonder
Why the sky is blue
And my balloon is green
And will I reach the tree
With all the honey
Why there is a name on my home
Of someone I don’t know
Who counted out
The hundred acres of our wood
And why does Piglet
Help me in all the plans I make
Despite the fact that
I am of small brain
He is so good, my human friend
He could come by more often
Maybe find a way to keep
The tail on the donkey
So that we could
Hunt the Heffalump
And play
And find more honey
And better still,
Eat more honey
Christopher Robin Couch
(Pixabay)
The Enchanted Namesake
I read the story long ago
I wrote the author
He never wrote back
But then how many
Contacts were there like mine
To say the name
Was mine as well
Did he ever take it as an indictment
As if to say,
It’s not my fault
I had my troubles, too, with it
Please leave
Me alone
On the jacket was the mention of
A bookstore
Which sounds pretty good
To me
A good life for which
I’d wish him well,
Of course
Well, I thought the name was silly until
It wasn’t
And the English teacher
Liked in fact
Having a literary character
For a name
As well as
A real person
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Thee Bee of Mee
inspired by a typo
Tut-tut rain, Christopher Robin
Says because he wants to fool the
Bees into distraction so that his
Mud-cloud bear might swipe honey
From their tree; the bear so-loved
Is grasping a balloon, and bear
And balloon are lifted up toward
A relished but unplanned
Reward of something sweet and
Lasting ‘til the next time the bear
Wants honey—I love the stories
And was named for the bear’s
Boy, who also went down to
The palace with Alice
Paraphrase
Of A A Milne—life by
Christopher Robin
And by me
Tut-tut rain, we say
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