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Friday, May 5, 2006 21:49 IST
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We would like to help you start your day with haikus, limericks and their assorted cousins. Here are readers' responses:

Haiku

Traditionally, it is a three-line Japanese poem with five-seven-five syllables, but its English cousins are allowed some leeway:

My heart disc is clean.
Auto-protection enabled.
No virus attacks.

--Aparna Ray

In the garden pool,
dark and still, a stepping stone
releases the moon.

--N R Shanbhag

Limerick

A five-line, rhyming poem:

Harry Potter's publishers, from their high perch
Sought new publicity -- but gave up their search.
When priests said Potter is witchcraft,
They, instead of crying, 'You're daft',
Thanked God for lending them the voice of the Church.

--Vivek Tandon

We encourage readers to send in their haikus and limericks to hairicks@dnaindia.net. We pay Rs 500 for each item published. Brief Encounters will be published in the City Uncanned column on Mondays. Please send them to: cityuncanned@dnaindia.net.

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