It's time for our daily holiday this morning.

( international haiku poetry day ) this holiday falls during national poetry month.'

Today is a celebration of the haiku... which dates back a millennium in japan.

A haiku is a short poem consisting of three lines.

The first line has five syllables... the second has seven... and the third has five.

Rhyming is not required.

Have fun... and write a haiku!

==== to tie our daily holiday in to an to tie our daily holiday in to an interesting new study... we have the first line of a haiku about beards.

Here it is: "more germs than a dog."

Swiss researchers found more harmful bacteria in samples taken from beards ... than in fur samples taken from dogs.

Nearly 40- percent of the beard samples tested positive for microbes that pose a threat to human health.

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