Hai-ricks

We would like to help you start your day with haikus, limericks and their assorted cousins. Here are readers’ responses:

 

 

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.