Summer has another month to go, but for students, the season is drawing to a close. Reflecting on summer, and looking ahead, Jack Stone of Englewood, winner of The Denver Post’s $25 Haiku contest, wrote this about school:
I hit the baseball,
Hit the road, hit my brother.
Now I’ll hit the books
Read more haiku at denverpost . 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. 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: stars.
The deadline is midnight Thursday. Good luck, and start writing.
