In Cheyenne, big crowds turned out for “The Daddy of ’em All,” during the annual Frontier Days rodeo and Western celebration, but small towns throughout the West also draw spectators to summer rodeos. Readers told us of the clowns and cowboys, bulls and bravado they witnessed. We liked what Cynthia L. Peterson of Idaho Springs, winner of The Denver Post’s $25 Haiku contest, had to say about rodeos:
Bulls and broncs jete
heavy choreography
the real summer stock
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. In addition, for the next 13 weeks, winners also get a copy of “Haiku on 42nd St.: A Celebration of Urban Poetry and Art” from Clerisy Press.
This week’s topic: lightning.
The deadline is midnight Thursday.
