This week, entrants to The Denver Post $25 Haiku Contest outdid themselves with verse celebrating the sound, feel and pure emotion of a “splash.” We liked Boulder poet W.M. Scher’s word painting best of all:
Black strokes on blue sky
greased luminescent crow notes
splash dawn with laughter.
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:
sparks.
The deadline is midnight Thursday. Good luck, and start writing.
