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~Japanese proverb
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Category Archives: Poetry & Quotes
Winter
To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.
~W.J. Vogel
via The Quotegarden
I wish I had borrowed some money due in spring, too.
Change
When you are through changing, you are through.
~Bruce Barton
The snow…
The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
~e.e. cummings
Wednesdays are like Mondays in the middle of the week.
~Lee Fox Williams
Monday is a lame way to spend 1/7 of your life.
~Unknown
This road
Frame by Graziela Mendes
The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald
The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
~Jean Rhys
I could not agree more. How about you?
After eating chocolate, you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers.
~Emily Luchetti
Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.
~John Shirley
Reconstructing
Bloggiesta is over and suddenly I feel I need to change my blog. Figures! Three weeks ago I said I was totally happy with the looks, but now I am not any more.
So you liked her? Now you don’t like her?
It’s early. You can change your mind one
more time before dinner.
I will be off tomorrow, so I will have some time to fiddle about with everything. If you see something strange going on, twice the same widget here and there etc., that’s just me…
Heat
I am melting away today, so I went in search for some haiku to confirm I am not the only one suffering from the heat – and I am not…
I’m melting, melting
Wicked Weather of the West
Quick! A mountain breeze!
~Marcia Hook via Denverpost
My car is a kiln
I use oven mitts to steer
Arriving red-faced.
~Tracy Wohlgenant via Denverpost
Sunny, hot, humid,
We all have been reduced to
A puddle of goo.
~via Les bonnes idées mag
It’s springtime
it’s springtime!
golden flowers
mountain moon~Issa
Happy New Year!
a new year–
the same nonsense
piled on nonsense~Issa
With these wise words of Issa I wish you all a happy new year!
Books as Christmas gifts
Do give books – religious or otherwise – for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
~ Lenore Hershey
Merry Christmas, everybody!
Jolly Santa
Santa is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live.
~Dennis Miller
Christmas lights
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
Feeling homesick
Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re home.
~ Carol Nelson
But when I halted…
But when I halted
on the windy street
at twilight…
Snow struck against me
~ Kito
Come, snow!
come, come, snow!
the young pine needs
new clothes
~Kobayashi Issa
Christmas haiku
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
my dwelling–
somewhere behind
the bundled snow
~ Issa
Clumsy Christmas
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
Steampunk haiku contest winner
Thanks everybody who entered the steampunk haiku contest. Voting for your favourite steampunk haiku is over and we have a winner.
It is Giada M. with
Clock-Work-Cuckoo-Clown Steam-Cyber-Space-Ship-Circus Err-And-Iron-Punk
To see all entries, please go to the entries page.
Congrats, Giada! I will contact you by email to get your shipping address and to find out your choice of steampunk book from The Book Depository.
Many thanks again to Kristi from Northwyke Creations and to Fox Chapel Publishing who generously sponsored the contest with a beautiful Steampunk lapel pin from her Etsy shop and a copy of Art Donovan’s “The art of Steampunk”.