Sunny and Careless
Posted: May 17, 2010 Filed under: books, haiku, Uncategorized | Tags: A.A. Milne, Christopher Robin, haiku, Winnie-the-Pooh Leave a comment »“Christopher Robin came down from the Forest to the bridge, feeling all sunny and careless, and just as if twice nineteen didn’t matter a bit, as it didn’t on such a happy afternoon, and he thought that if he stood on the bottom rail of the bridge, and leant over, and watched the river slipping slowly away beneath him, then he would suddenly know everything that there was to be known…”
–from The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-The-Pooh by A.A. Milne
sunny afternoon—
slipping away suddenly
everything known
