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SATURDAY
Strong syllables sing
Words pitched headlong in combat
Who will judge their worth?
Oh! Mariposa!
Graveyard of poetic hopes!
Field of fierce battle!
Bleak Saturday night
Works of gladiator bards
Strewn in bloody heaps
What verse master dare
To put the “bash” in Basho
Take the lofty prize!
David Cheng hosts a Haiku Kontest tonight; the syllable-counting and short-form poetic license to ill commences at 8 p.m. at Mariposa Center for Artistic Expression, 5000 Berwyn Road, College Park. $5. (301) 513-9422. (RB)