When we asked for haiku on the topic of snowflakes, we never expected the blizzard of high-quality verse that drifted into the e-mail box and the haiku website. We were partial to many, so in the interest of not playing favorites among our Colorado writers, we picked Ron Sidener of Leawood, Kan., as the winner of The Denver Post $25 Haiku Contest this week:
Snowflakes with no twins
but siblings by the billions
Front Range reunion
Read more haiku at haiku. You can also go to to have The Haiku Guy, our avatar of verse, read aloud to you. If it all makes you feel like you’ve got something to say in a 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. Our favorite wins a $25 gift certificate to the Tattered Cover Book Store.
This week’s topic is: stock show.
The deadline is midnight Thursday. Good luck, and start writing.
