It’s Earth Day today, so we couldn’t help but ask entrants to the Denver Post $25 Haiku Contest to contemplate “recycling” in verse. Happily, Karen Magner of Castle Rock managed to close the loop:
Rubber Nike shoes
Morph into Jordan’s playground
Whose soles will collide?
Read more haiku at . 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:
April showers.
The deadline is midnight Thursday. Good luck, and start writing.
