My First Poetry

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 As a child I don't recall reading Winnie the Pooh, what I recall is the two children's verse books written by A.A. Milne: When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six. I still have my copy of When We Were Very Young (no idea where the other one went, perhaps my mother sold it at a garage sale? Now I will go look at eBay and Amazon to see if I can find one.) These were short poems with illustrations by the same artist who did the Winnie the Pooh illustrations and they included some poems about Winnie. I loved the rhythmn, rhymes and ideas conveyed. Perhaps they inspired to write my first poems. It certainly was an enjoyment that lead to my love of poetry later in life. 

Here are the first and last verse of "Nursery Chairs"

   One of the chairs is South America,

      One of the chairs is a ship at sea,

   One is a cage for a great big lion,

      And one is a chair for Me.


  Shall I go off to South America?

    Shall I put out in my ship to sea?

 Or get in my cage and be lions and tigers?

    Or-shall I be only Me?



Comments

  1. Jo AnneNovember 18, 2021 at 12:51 PM

    I have When We Were Very Young still. My daughter and I enjoyed it together while she was growing up, and I could never part with it.

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  2. Richard WeigandFebruary 4, 2022 at 2:32 AM

    I have both those books and love them!

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