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Friday, June 2, 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:

Ended this morning
Hours of search for a soul mate:
A Google success.
--Aparna Ray

A tree looking at
itself on the river
becomes complete.
--Ankur Betageri

Over Hampstead Heath
a full moon rises, an airplane
riding inside it.
--Joan Pinto

Limerick
A five-line, rhyming poem:

The item girl thought she would
Make a mark in Hollywood.
When asked to play games
With a Bond called James,
She said, "I'm an Indian virgin, understood?"
--Prabhaat S Vaidya

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

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