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    A Xmas Getaway Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

    By MrSmith1 on Fri, 12/20/2013 - 5:11pm |

     

     


    Here's this week's heap of haikus:




    Water lillies float
    serenely on a pond as
    a light rain begins.

     

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    Watching MTV ...
    Where did the videos go?
    the "thriller' is gone.


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    Hidden in the creche;
    a marble he'd stolen from
    his little brother.


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    the-cycle-ku:

    Wishing for Santa.
    Feeling disappointed ... again.
    Wishing for Santa.


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    The broken crayon
    that rolled behind the sofa
    piqued the dog's int'rest.

     
     

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     Here is a lesson
    to be learned and not forgot;
    While music plays, dance.
     

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    The New York Worlds Fair
    in Sixty-Four and Five was
    this teen's paradise.




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    Though I meander
    through lush fields and forests, I
    will find my way home.


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    A dagger as sharp
    as a lover's rebuke has
    not, as yet, been made.



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    how-cold-was-it-ku:

    So ... how cold was it?
    It was so cold, hot chowder
    was sold on a stick.

    It was so cold that
    when I spilled my coffee, it
    didn't splash, it cracked.

    It was so cold that
    the polar bears were wearing
    eskimos as scarves.


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    On a cold, clear morn,
    a church in the distance is
    framed by the bare trees.



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    Happiness is not
    a station you arrive at,
    it's the train you're on.



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    Reading epistles,
    'midst clover and thistles, a
    joyful man whistles.


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    He'd often quibble
    with perceived wisdom just to
    be an S.O.B. 




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    On a cold, clear morn,
    a church in the distance is
    framed by the bare trees.




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    How I wish I could
    have lived in my parents' world.
    they said things were great.


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    Visibly shaken,
    she came mentally unglued,
    so ... she fell apart.  



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    The Winter Solstice;
    the shortest day of the year
    has the longest night. 



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    Xmas Swing - One of my faves ... Duke Ellington's version of The Nutcracker Suite.  This is just the overture ... You can find each cut of this album posted separately on Youtube ... it's well worth the listen.




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    Spondyville mascot, Stiffy the Snowspondy went backstage at "I Love Lucy Live On Stage!" in Boston at the Colonial Theatre with "Lucy" (Sirena Irwin) and "Ethel" (Joanna Daniels).  Thanks to my friend, and cast member of the show, Denise Moses for hosting the Snowspondy's visit. 

     

     

     

    Happy Holidays to all my fellow Dagbloggers!!

    Comments

    The same to you, Mr. Smith.  Love Lucy and Ethel.  What fun!  And the haikus, without question.  I look forward to Fridays and the Haikulodeon.

    Merry Christmas, too.


    by Ramona on Fri, 12/20/2013 - 7:46pm

    Thanks Ramona!  :-)


    by MrSmith1 on Fri, 12/20/2013 - 9:40pm

    Thank you for the Duke's Nut Cracker concert.  Merry Christmas.  


    by trkingmomoe on Fri, 12/20/2013 - 10:03pm

    Yeah, well done.

    8 hrs & 26 minutes of cloudy day. hahahha

    It is the solstice

    I am on the precipice

    Of some chili sticks


    by Richard Day on Fri, 12/20/2013 - 10:51pm

    So many long nights.

    History gives brief respite

    from the usual.

     

    If it is a word,

    It argues for something new.

    Like a visitor.

     

    How can large spaces

    Be so tiny when i walk?

    It must be the shoes.

     

     


    by moat on Thu, 12/26/2013 - 7:59pm