With Easter just a few days away, we’re thinking about eggs. Candy ones and dyed ones in particular. Contributors to The Denver Post’s $25 Haiku Contest also wrote fondly of breakfast eggs: fried and scrambled, poached and boiled. But others mused about the new life eggs bring, among them winner Karen Griffen:
Nest above the door
A precarious placement
will eggs bring real peeps
Read more haiku at . 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: mud.
The deadline is midnight Thursday. Good luck, and start writing.
