a new year–
the same nonsense
piled on nonsense~Issa
With these wise words of Issa I wish you all a happy new year!
Do give books – religious or otherwise – for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
~ Lenore Hershey
Merry Christmas, everybody!
Santa is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live.
~Dennis Miller
We put up our Christmas tree yesterday and I can confirm this quote to be oh, so true!
No matter how carefully you stored the lights last year, they will be snarled again this Christmas.
~ Robert Kirby
Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re home.
~ Carol Nelson
But when I halted
on the windy street
at twilight…
Snow struck against me
~ Kito
come, come, snow!
the young pine needs
new clothes
~Kobayashi Issa
I found this Christmas haiku on Daily Christmas Haiku.
Left a glass of milk
in the morning, it’s still there.
Brandy is missing!
my dwelling–
somewhere behind
the bundled snow
~ Issa
I do like Christmas on the whole…. In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.
~E.M. Forster
