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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:
The problem with haiku
Too many people think
Counting seventeen syllables
Is enough.
--Peter Griffin
Latte
And suddenly her
Words doubled up, fell into
My cup of coffee
--Devashish Makhija
We meet every day,
In a world without borders.
Webcams are dandy.
--Aparna Ray
Limerick
A five-line, rhyming poem:
A critic refused as reviewer,
To read the obscene and impure;
He soon left the scene,
For the books that were clean
Kept getting fewer and fewer.
--Sachin Setya
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