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:

Lips watch in silence
As our thumbs chatter non-stop
Via SMS
—Aparna Ray

Champa, they call her
Like the flower, scenting
the lives of lonely men.
—Joan Pinto

Tribute to Basho
Living in your words
I am pure as a glacier,
Lightning between clouds.
—Ankur Betageri

Limerick
A five-line, rhyming poem:

It’s a year since he married Camilla
No point now asking, “Kya mila?”
He’d say “After Diana
Life’s much finer,
I’m on Cloud Nine in Shangri-La.”
—Prabhaat S Vaidya

We encourage readers to send in their haikus and limericks to hairicks@dnaindia.net.

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