Baseball apparently evokes a lot of strong emotion among haiku writers – frustration, happiness, melancholy, you name it, people brought it up in the name of baseball. The entry to The Denver Post’s $25 Haiku Contest that touched us best, though, came from Nancy Snow:
Summer afternoon
A young boy’s rite of passage
Sounds of shattered glass
You can read the rest of the sizzling entries at denverpost
. And if they make you feel like you’ve got something to say in 5-7-5 poetry form, enter a one-stanza haiku at lifestyle@denverpost.com or file it at. Don’t forget to include your name and hometown in the message. Our favorite wins a gift certificate to the Tattered Cover Book Store.
This week’s topic:
Swimming.
The deadline is midnight
Thursday. Good luck, and
start writing.
