For the first day of autumn, readers reflected on the season. We liked how Connie Milligan of Colorado Springs tied it to sports. The winner of The Denver Post’s $25 Haiku contest, she wrote this about “autumn:”
Green leaves morph to gold
bleachers fill as footballs fly
summer punts to fall.
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: gourds.
The deadline is midnight Thursday.
