Pooh liked Autumn. Autumn means walking with a scarf round your neck and sometimes seeing your breath in the air like a silent conversation, and wet leaves underfoot and twigs going crackle or sometimes crack! which can be scary if you aren't holding CR's hand.
So here they are, walking together paw-in-hand down the path in Hundred-Acre Wood, and Pooh is humming a happy hum with words looking for it, rather like inquisitive flies that don't quite land on you, wondering if they should stay or not, and how the other flies feel if two of them land together...
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Very enlightening, Michael. :) Philosophers should study Milne and all his characters in Hundred Acre Woods...and Pooh in particular. Well, and I guess I should change that to 'poets should study Milne.' We can learn a lot. Well done. Raynette
Wonderful! A real delight - because not only am I a huge fan of poetry, but I love Pooh Bear. You made me smile, that's for sure.
Absolutely brilliant, 'Mike'....have you read The Tao of Pooh? Very enlightening...