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ShareWe 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
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