Autumn’s shorter days and colder nights find our readers more likely to shiver than kick back, judging from the verse they contributed when we asked them to write about “chill” for our weekly Denver Post $25 Haiku Contest. Janet Kamnikar of Fort Collins, like us, has cold feet:
Autumn’s chill stalks us
Find your fuzzy slippers now
Floors of ice await
Read more haiku at . You also can 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 Tattered Cover Book Store.
This week’s topic is: spirits
The deadline is midnight Thursday. Good luck, and start writing.
