Winnie-the-Pooh (and friends), a found poem
by Louise Carson
‘I only came to oblige. But here I am.’
And ‘You’re the only one who seems to understand –
about tails.’
‘It’s a remarkable thing. It is my house…
The wind must have blown it here…
Here it is as good as ever. In fact, better in places.’
‘Me, having a real birthday.’
‘Getting Tigger down,’ said Eeyore, ‘and not hurting anybody.
Keep those two ideas in your head, Piglet, and you’ll be alright.’
‘Enjoy yourself.’
‘I am,’ said Pooh.
‘Some can,’ said Eeyore.
Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, ‘Why?’
and sometimes he thought, ‘Wherefore?’ and
sometimes he thought, ‘Inasmuch as which?’
‘It just shows what can be done
by taking a little trouble,’ said Eeyore.
‘I’m not asking anybody.
I’m just telling everybody.’
‘Poetry and hums aren’t things which you get.
They’re things which get you.’
ABOUT THE CREATOR
Louise Carson lives in a bungalow surrounded by gardens. She paid for it by teaching music. Now she just writes. Her poems have been selected for Best Canadian Poetry in 2013, 2021, and 2024, and her most recent books are The Truck Driver Treated for Shock, haiku, Yarrow Press, and The Cat Crosses A Line, Signature Editions.