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Denver’s Eliza Graham, winner of The Denver Post’s $25 Haiku contest, wrote this about the topic of “stars”:
Dawn star’s soft glimmer
Fades unnoticed at the earth
Star’s rise in the east.
Read more haiku at . You also can go to to have The Haiku Guy, our avatar of verse, read aloud. 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: football.
The deadline is midnight Thursday.

