Rikki's Teleidoscope » Poetry & Quotes http://www.rikkidonovan.com books crafts food & drink misc. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:38:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Happy New Year! http://www.rikkidonovan.com/index.php/2011/12/31/happy-new-year-2/?&owa_medium=feed&owa_sid= http://www.rikkidonovan.com/index.php/2011/12/31/happy-new-year-2/#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:59:00 +0000 Rikki http://www.rikkidonovan.com/index.php/2011/12/31/happy-new-year-2/ Venus

a new year–
the same nonsense
piled on nonsense

~Issa

With these wise words of Issa I wish you all a happy new year!

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Do give books – religious or otherwise – for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

~ Lenore Hershey

Merry Christmas, everybody!

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Santa is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live. 

~Dennis Miller

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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

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Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re home.

~ Carol Nelson

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But when I halted

on the windy street

at twilight…

Snow struck against me

~ Kito

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come, come, snow!

the young pine needs

new clothes

~Kobayashi Issa

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I found this Christmas haiku on Daily Christmas Haiku.

 

Left a glass of milk

in the morning, it’s still there.

Brandy is missing!

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my dwelling–
somewhere behind
the bundled snow

~ Issa

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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

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