If the verse that landed in the Denver Post $25 Haiku box on the topic of Mardi Gras is an accurate indicator, our poets are ready to eat pancakes this morning and party tonight. To winner Lyn Pring of Fort Collins, laissez bon temps roulez:
Purple, green and gold
Perfect for feathers and beads
Do I need a shirt?
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 the Tattered Cover Book Store.
This week’s topic is: time.
The deadline is midnight Thursday. Good luck, and start writing.
