As gardeners dig holes for vegetables and flowers during Colorado’s precious growing season, they discover that the ground often needs compost to become more hospitable to plants. That was the sentiment expressed by Jen Ritchie-Goodline of Centennial, winner of the Denver Post’s $25 Haiku, who had this to say about soil:
Dark, rich, fertile earth
not my Colorado yard
more like muddy clay
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: flags.
The deadline is midnight Thursday. Good luck, and start writing.
