 Poetry: August 16, 2017 Issue [#8448] |
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This week: A. A. Milne Edited by: Stormy Lady  
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Wind on the Hill
by A. A. Milne
No one can tell me,
Nobody knows,
Where the wind comes from,
Where the wind goes.
It's flying from somewhere
As fast as it can,
I couldn't keep up with it,
Not if I ran.
But if I stopped holding
The string of my kite,
It would blow with the wind
For a day and a night.
And then when I found it,
Wherever it blew,
I should know that the wind
Had been going there too.
So then I could tell them
Where the wind goes...
But where the wind comes from
Nobody knows.
The Morning Walk
by A. A. Milne
When Anne and I go out a walk,
We hold each other's hand and talk
Of all the things we mean to do
When Anne and I are forty-two.
And when we've thought about a thing,
Like bowling hoops or bicycling,
Or falling down on Anne's balloon,
We do it in the afternoon.
On January 18th, 1882, John Vine Milne and his wife Sarah Maria Heginbotham, welcomed their third son Alan Alexander Milnes into their family. The family lived in Hampstead London. John Milne was a schoolmaster at the Henley House. When Milne was of age he attended his father school. It was here that Milne was taught by H. G. Wells, among other teachers. Milne went on to study at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Milne graduated with a a degree in mathematics in 1903.
After graduation Milne went to work as an Assistant Editor for the “Punch.” The “punch,” was where he published some of his first writings. It was while working at the magazine that Milne met Dorothy de Selincourt. Dorothy was the Goddaughter of “Punch,’ editor Owen Seaman. The two then married in 1913. The following year World War I started. Milnes joined the army in 1915 and was sent to France. IN 1916 while fighting at the front lines, Milnes fell ill. After he recovered he was placed at Fort Southwick, incharge of a signalling company. Milne was discharged from the army in 1919.
After his service in the army, Milne resigned from the “Punch,” to focus on writing. It was in 1923 Milne published his children's poem 'Vespers' it was published in Vanity Fair. this was the first poem to feature his son Christopher Robin. In 1924, after the success of ‘Vespers’ Milne published “When We Were Very Young.” It was a book of children's poems, which included a poem of a Teddy Bear. This was the first unofficial appearance of the beloved Winnie the Pooh. The book was a success, selling over 50,000 within the first eight weeks. The following year at Christmas, Pooh became an official character with Milne’s contribution to an issue of the Evening News. It was the the bedtime story Milne made up for his son about the adventures Christopher and his Teddy Bear had. The Milne’s family then moved to a cottage at Cotchford Farm in Sussex, which later provided the setting for Milne’s Pooh books.
The earlier published bedtime story formed the first chapter of Milne’s book entitled ‘Winnie-the-Pooh,’ published in 1926. This book was followed by the verses 'Now We are Six' published in 1927 and 'The House at Pooh Corner' published in 1928. With the success of Winnie the Pooh, Milne announced that ‘The House at Pooh Corner,’ would be the last Christopher Robin’s book. He had hoped to shield his son from any more publicity after the success of first two books. Milne’s was said to have never read the published Pooh stories to his son.
Although grateful for the Pooh stories success Milne often resented the fact that his literary fame was based on children’s books. He went on to write several other plays and novels, none that reach the same success of Winnie the Pooh. Milne’s published two more books of poetry ‘Behind the lines,’ in 1940 and ‘The Norman Church,’ in 1948. Milne plays included ‘Toad of Toad Hall’ in 1929 and ‘The Ugly Duckling,’ in 1941 and many others.
Sadly in 1952, Milne had to have an operation on his brain that would leave him an invalid. After he recovered from the operation he went home to Cotchford Farm in Sussex. He spent the last part of his life battling his illness and died on January 31st, 1956.
Market Square
by A. A. Milne
I had a penny,
A bright new penny,
I took my penny
To the market square.
I wanted a rabbit,
A little brown rabbit,
And I looked for a rabbit
'Most everywhere.
For I went to the stall where they sold sweet lavender
("Only a penny for a bunch of lavender!").
"Have you got a rabbit, 'cos I don't want lavender?"
But they hadn't got a rabbit, not anywhere there.
I had a penny,
And I had another penny,
I took my pennies
To the market square.
I did want a rabbit,
A little baby rabbit,
And I looked for rabbits
'Most everywhere.
And I went to the stall where they sold fresh mackerel
("Now then! Tuppence for a fresh-caught mackerel!").
"Have you got a rabbit, 'cos I don't like mackerel?"
But they hadn't got a rabbit, not anywhere there.
I found a sixpence,
A little white sixpence.
I took it in my hand
To the market square.
I was buying my rabbit
I do like rabbits),
And I looked for my rabbit
'Most everywhere.
So I went to the stall where they sold fine saucepans
("Walk up, walk up, sixpence for a saucepan!").
"Could I have a rabbit, 'cos we've got two saucepans?"
But they hadn't got a rabbit, not anywhere there.
I had nuffin',
No, I hadn't got nuffin',
So I didn't go down
To the market square;
But I walked on the common,
The old-gold common...
And I saw little rabbits
'Most everywhere!
So I'm sorry for the people who sell fine saucepans,
I'm sorry for the people who sell fresh mackerel,
I'm sorry for the people who sell sweet lavender,
'Cos they haven't got a rabbit, not anywhere there!
Thank you all!
Stormy Lady
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Willow Creek
As I descend along Willow Creek I got cold chills.
I can't explain how I was summoned against my will.
Headstones in the center of this island beckoned me.
I'll compare it to a lighthouse to a sailor lost at sea.
The murky water was so cold it chilled to the core
I made my way from boat on to the sandy shore.
I tie up the boat tightly to a large fallen tree.
The fog became so thick I could hardly see.
I had never noticed the headstones before.
Though I know about these waters, for sure.
I saw prints of something with claws in the soil.
My nerves are now shaken, I feel I could hurl.
The fog lifted just in time for me to see.
The fresh new open grave in front of me.
The name on the new headstone made me moan
For the name on that headstone was my own.
I made my way out of there leaving boat and all
As I rushed through grass so thick and tall.
My boat is still there: as I left it was just a blur.
That was the day I somehow walked on the water!
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The words are:
hummingbird, lilacs, poppies, echo, breeze, lace, picnic, field
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