Colorado’s capricious weather was on the minds of many entrants in the Denver Post $25 Haiku Contest when we asked people to write about “spring.” Mary Reeves of Littleton captured how precious those first blooms can be:
Brittle Denver spring
fragile buds, porcelain blooms
storm’s breakage coming
Read more haiku at /haiku. You also can go to to have The Haiku Guy, our avatar of verse, read aloud to you.
If 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: baseball.
The deadline is midnight Thursday. Good luck, and start writing.
