When the ski resorts close, it’s mud season. And this time of year we see plenty of it on the plains as well. Contributors to The Denver Post’s $25 Haiku Contest wrote about the pleasures of squishing mud between their toes and of the extra cleaning required when pets drag it into the house. Winner Rhonda Hageman of Englewood has a pet without such issues:
Cats walk on tiptoe
dance ballet across the yard —
they hate muddy paws!
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: earth.
The deadline is midnight Thursday. Good luck, and start writing.
