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Let your creative juices flow! Have fun and write your own two poem:

1. Write a limerick The limerick is always light and humorous. Its usual form consists of five predominantly anapestic lines rhyming aabba; lines 1, 2, and 5contain three feet, while lines 3 and 4 contain two. Limericks have delighted everyone from schoolchildren to sophisticated adults, and they range in subject matter from the simply innocent and silly to the satiric or obscene. The sexual humor helps to explain why so many limericks are written anonymously. Here is one that is anonymous but more concerned with physics than physiology. (About 25 words)
2. Write a haiku Another brief fixed poetic form, borrowed from the Japanese, is the haiku. A haiku is usually described as consisting of seventeen syllables organized into three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Owing to language difference, however, English translations of haiku are often only approximated, because a Japanese haiku exists in time (Japanese syllables have duration). The number of syllables in our sense is not as significant as the duration in Japanese. These poems typically present an intense emotion or a vivid image of nature, which, in the Japanese, are also designed to lead to a spiritual insight. (About 12 words)
3. Explain in 250 words how you went about writing these two poems. Where did you get your ideas from? Did you use a dictionary for words? How long did it take you? did you ask anyone for help?