When peaches from Colorado’s Western Slope hit farmers markets, stands and stores, people put on a happy, sticky face. And wax rhapsodic about the sweet fruit, as Cheri Divine of Frisco, winner of The Denver Post’s $25 Haiku contest, did:
Chunks of gold to pick
Reddish ripe from summer’s sun
Sweet juice coats my chin
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 a limited time, winners also get a copy of “Haiku on 42nd St.: A Celebration of Urban Poetry and Art,” from Clerisy Press.
This week’s topic: school.
The deadline is midnight Thursday. Good luck, and start writing.
