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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:

 

Beach, seafood and beer
And getting paid to go there:
I have good karma.
—Peter Griffin
 
Wriggling worms? Plenty.
We poke sticks. Sprinkle salt. Kill.
The monsoon? Lives on.
—Sudha Dhingra

 

Playing hopscotch
with the ruts of life
Falling is allowed
—Joan Pinto

 

Limerick
A five-line, rhyming poem:

 

There was a young lady from Cal,
Who remained very lonely, poor gal!
She wished Edward Lear
Was still living, and near,
In him surely she would’ve found a pal!
—Aparna Ray

 

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