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Earth Day is tomorrow, a perfect time to contemplate the environment and our place in it. Some contributors to The Denver Post’s $25 Haiku Contest explored a personal and visceral connection when they wrote about the topic of “Earth.” Here’s the winning entry from Barbara Test of Denver:
When I was a child
the rain and the earth called me
and I made mud pies
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@ . or file it at . /haiku. 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: buds.
