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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:
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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