Everyone pooh-poohs me
Are they simply too blind to see
the takeover of America by the likes of Mamdani
Bernie Sanders, Omer, Tlaib, and AOC
who’ll raise our taxes sky-high and ration our heat
defund police, empty prisons onto streets
Three cheers for ‘union’ – of teachers, that is
grant them more pay hikes for brainwashing kids
And what of the immigrants who came here for freedom
~ nowhere to be found now except in museums
Leftovers from a child's dream
where Christopher Robin and his crew
imagined a world of Tigger and Pooh,
when innocents thrived and saw only good
gentle, soft gestures within the wood
where time along still and quiet stood.
Bring back those days of wonderment
when my children could pursue their dreams
and life itself could laugh and sing,
no AI, no Tik Tok challenges
just pure imagination and carefree dalliances
let me be a child once more.
Winnie-the-Pooh, from Hundred Acre Wood,
Love living there, carefree, doing a lot of good,
But his pastime favorite was eating and being funny,
Sitting and slurping globs and globs of delicious honey.
I dragged this cig, my brain went far gaga,
The same cigarette brand that brought me joy;
A puff, and I slipped into a pooh-Bah,
One short drag became enough to destroy.
My legs wobbled, the world around me spun,
I heaved heavily, yet relief slept still;
The fun I sought had never yet begun,
In its stead, I commenced a mental drill.
As I puffed a new cig to chase a fad,
Deeper curiosity did arouse.
How can a mere cigar torture so bad,
A dream taught me the thought in intense drowse.
Later I learned the cig was laced with crack~
The closest I came being a junkie;
That pal later picked madness in bump's track,
Why I never became a crack flunkey.
Often Piglet and Winnie the Pooh
head out to the zoo
a slight detour and they come up to a beehive
for sweet honey it sure is worth a dip and a dive
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Pak Piglet slowly sidled up to Pooh
To whisper: just I’m making sure of you,
He took his friend’s front paw
In hand with glee and awe--
A selfish friendship Pooh will one day rue.
__________________________
Happenings |33.07.2025| friendship
Note: In Sanskrit there is a term for selfish friendship: badarayana sambandha. Pakistan thanked Trump for ending their conflict with India that badly mauled them. Trump did next to nothing though. Grateful, Pak assured him to nominate for Nobel peace prize and offered his family a lucrative deal in crypto currency. Trump Invited Pak army chief to White House for dinner and praised the country profusely. The two scratching each other’s back, as a children’s tale goes: aho roopam aho dhvanim!
- Credit (Pooh and Piglet theme): AA Milne, The House at Pooh Corner.
My bestie is missed a lot
But he's always in my heart
Never forgetting memories
And everything he means to me
I'm sending happy birthday wishes
Loaded with lots of hugs and kisses
Up to heaven straight to you
Happy birthday sweet kind pooh
I hope your special day is grand
With a big heavenly band
Serenading you with love
In your new home up above
I just got some sad news
Which is giving me the blues
My bestie nicknamed pooh bear
Went very far away from here
I can't believe he passed away
From a stroke late yesterday
My friend from the very start
Will always be in my heart
My guardian angel from above
Who gave me laughs, caring, and love
Never forgotten he will be
With me for eternity
Memories precious and rare
Of this cuddly happy bear
Will last forever never fading
Up in heaven he is waiting
Sending us all happiness
Pooh bear you will be so missed
“Pooh”
Winnie’s squeezed sigh was rather prehensile
butt Oh bother! was the scoop by Walter Winchell
bears do do do in the woods
but the buzz to bee understood
is it’s trees that make number two pencils
loo paper and turd
remain in the toilet bowl ~
who forgot to flush?
Winnie the Pooh is invited
A fictional figure, a child’s
Friend and now a king’s witness
No sword heaved from a stone
A cuddly toy bear among the elite
More important than you or me
More relevant, than economy.
A leader living a child’s fantasy
The king’s clothes of equal absurdity
Yet the reality, covered in pomp
Advisers see nothing wrong or
Too sycophantic; just go along
A coronation, sing his favourite hymn
Poor bonny prince, lonely, soul.
Imaginary friends answering the call
Crowning a commonwealth leader
What would your friends think?
Carry a teddy to the office on Monday
Unemployment the following week
Yet the king will sit on his throne
His wife and Pooh to share his power,
Riches, palaces and home. Reassures
The country's confidence in the few.
God save our 2.2 king and of course, Pooh.
David Cox 29/04/23
She Dog was not thrilled when the interloper appeared.
Whoo Pooh was a cute little thing and not all dog-eared.
Master was yelling, “Whoo Pooh this and Whoo Pooh that!”
Whoo Pooh was bouncy, exuberant, wiggly and rather fat.
Whoo Pooh followed She Dog all over the house
He acted like she was her hero; she felt like a louse.
One day Whoo Pooh called She Dog “mama” one day.
From there on in, they were besties, I have to say!
Pooh, plush with his turned-up snout,
pleased; peeked out the wide window.
He prompt a mouth sigh, breathed out,
placid with life, holding his pillow.
Seized by magic of nature
and buzzing noise, means there's bees.
Out the door happy creature,
beehives beneath limbs and shade of trees.
Pooh and Cricket walk, a trail
laced in rainbow wildflowers.
A sniff they took, and a snail
slowly crawl out look for spring showers.
Fluttering butterfly lands
on Pooh's nose, twas so funny.
A bouquet and snail in hands,
towards home with jugs full of honey.
2/6/2022
Nursery Rhyme
I arrive at work, need the loo
Bowl’s splattered with gloopy brown poo
Can’t folk use the brush
Just after they flush
It’s something that I’d always do!
*happened at work this morning
01/13/22
Winnie the Pooh
Always would stew
About getting honey
To put in his tummy.
Piglet,
His tail a small ringlet
Was a godsend
To his anxious bear friend.
9/10/21
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