Hai-ricks

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:

Glass shadows
Writhe between morn and night
To twist emptiness
—Rashmi Dhanwani

Sipped coffee, ate eggs,
Swallowed sweet nuggets of
A conversation
—Raj Ray

Love is the
metaphysical salt
of life’s feast.
—Ankur Betageri

Limerick
A five-line, rhyming poem:
A young Sardar from Punjab,
Found life in the country too drab.
He went to the States,
To become Bill Gates,
But ended up driving a cab.
—Vrinda Baliga

There was a boy called Salman,
He grew up to be a balwan,
He made a quick buck,
But ran out of luck:
He’s been eating jail ka pakwaan!
—Gargi Mehra

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.