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Tweeted-haiku contest returns this week

February 27, 2013 by Mark Allen
For haiku to work,
include grammatical sense
as you are counting

March 4 approaches, and with it comes National Grammar Day, a day we celebrate with the annual Tweeted Haiku Contest.

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