In Competition No. 3087 you were invited to submit haikicks. We already have short-form hybrids such as the clerihaiku (here’s one from Mary Holtby):
Peter Palumbo
Cries, ‘Mumbo-jumbo!’ and rails
At the Prince of Wales
And the limeraiku:
A haiku will do
For a limerick trick, called
A Limeraiku.
That was by Arthur P. Cox.
Now Bill Webster, veteran of these pages, has come up with a new version of the haiku-limerick combination.
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