Extra-Glad (as taught by Winnie-the-Pooh and crew)

Have you enjoyed the extra-glad happiness and humour of Pooh lately?

(another child-care perk, Winnie-the-Pooh stories and movies!) 

It’s funny how the honey-pot, when it has been refilled

Tastes sweeter than before we knew the hunger-pangs of love

For money cannot buy The Thing that leaves the heart fulfilled

Life’s ‘extra-glad’ we covet most, not in ‘stuffs’ treasure-trove

The clink of coin for all it boasts can never satisfy

Its friendship is a calloused host compared to words like ‘we’

And lunch is such a happy world when shared twixt you and I

The extra-glad of life as simple as a pot of tea

…then when the sky is July blue and earth is July gold

And we remember once again Best Gifts in life are free

And when the world is full of so much beauty to behold

It makes us extra-glad for ears to hear and eyes to see

Ah, Winnie-the-pooh, you keep the child in us from growing old

And help us to remember what matters along life’s way

How ‘smackerels of honey’ hold more smiles than moneyed gold

When shared with friends, the extra-glad in each and every day

© Janet Martin