If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
quote by George Ade
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Christmas Gifts
Ten Christmas presents standing in a line;
Robert took the bicycle, then there were nine.
Nine Christmas presents ranged in order straight;
Bob took the steam engine, then there were eight.
Eight Christmas presents--and one came from Devon;
Robbie took the jackknife, then there were seven.
Seven Christmas presents direct from St. Nick's;
Bobby took the candy box, then there were six.
Six Christmas presents, one of them alive;
Rob took the puppy dog, then there were five.
Five Christmas presents yet on the floor;
Bobbin took the soldier cap, then there were four.
Four Christmas presents underneath the tree;
Bobbet took the writing desk, then there were three.
Three Christmas presents still in full view;
Robin took the checker board, then there were two.
Two Christmas presents, promising fun,
Bobbles took the picture book, then there was one.
One Christmas present--and now the list is done;
Bobbinet took the sled, and then there were none.
And the same happy child received every toy,
So many nicknames had one little boy.
poem by Carolyn Wells
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Presence or Presents?
The dawn of the day
Wore the birthday—
Colourful festoons_
Beautiful balloons—
Relishable Cakes—
Loving hand-shakes—
Jubilancy with buoyant festivity!
Presents! Oh! Presents!
Varieties of them!
From cute bottles of scents
To many valuable jems-
From useful articles
To futile particles!
'Oh! Why bother with presents?
Happy so - with your presence! '
'Why this? '
'Why that? '
Music over—silence pours;
All disperse.
Examining presents—
'Oh! only this?
I gave that! '
Oh! That!
I gave this! '
Presence or presents?
poem by Chandra Thiagarajan
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Christmas Presents Treasure Hunt
Every year on the first of December
the annual Christmas presents treasure hunt begins.
During the January sales, my wife and I buy
our Christmas presents for the on coming year,
buy them and hide them
and each year we forget where we hid them too.
One year I had a bright idea,
I would draw up a little map,
then my wife decided on a spring clean
moving furniture from one room to another
which rendered my little map rather obsolete.
Hence, the treasure hunt began
and when we had found most of them,
another problem then arose
about who were the presents for.
We drew up a list of everyone
and attached a present to their name,
but nothing is straightforward in our house,
backward maybe.
The list was binned
and we had to start again.
In our search for Christmas presents
something more surprising is what came to light,
a five-year old box of mouldy chocolates
that we had bought for someone
but could not remember who.
Waste not, want not is the key words here,
now who don’t we like
these mouldy old chocolates we will give to them
for their treat this year.
As for all those missing presents that we couldn’t find,
it looks like shopping again
and maybe next year we’ll find the ones we lost
and sit down to figure out someone who we can give them to.
poem by David Harris
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There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
quote by Emile M. Cioran
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Delay is preferable to error.
quote by Thomas Jefferson
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
The pain is sometimes preferable to the treatment.
Depictive Passages
Each day...
Presents its own uniqueness.
Each day...
Different from the last.
And with imaginations grasped...
Somewhere, someone sees it fit,
To describe their experiences...
In depictive passages.
Deciding to recite or to write,
As each day lived passes them by.
Each day...
Presents its own uniqueness.
Each day...
Different from the last.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
quote by Lewis Carroll
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In a choice between bad company and loneliness -- the second is preferable.
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
quote by Alexandre Dumas
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A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
quote by Emile M. Cioran
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The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
quote by Karl Kraus
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A diamond with a flaw is preferable to a common stone with none.
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
quote by Carl Weick
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
quote by Maimonides
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Who Writes The Most Poems Wins?
Quantity is quite easily achieved
Quality more scarce
Preferable as well
poem by Mary Havran
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
quote by Jean de La Fontaine
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