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Did you notice that the title of this post is a haiku?

That haiku you write
May award you 25
Dollars for great books

The Denver Post is running a weekly haiku contest. So how about you and your children entering a haiku poem to win a $25 gift certificate to the Tattered Cover bookstore, a wonderful local bookstore? (If you don’t live here don’t worry, you can order books from them online if you win.)

Every week The Denver Post will submit a new topic to readers of the newspaper - the topic for the week of June 4 is cats. I will let you know in a special post here at A Readable Feast what the next topic is since the contest isn’t posted on the newspaper’s website.

If you want to participate, you should submit a snappy, one-stanza haiku to lifestyle@denverpost.com.

I’ll never forget my fifth-grade English teacher, Mr. Cesstone, telling us to stop using the word "nice" and find other ways to convey what we were writing about. So, inspired by Mr. C. and Jane O’Connor’s book Fancy Nancy, let’s explore some plain and boring words versus fancy and exciting ones:

How can you make your writing more enticing? Get a good thesaurus or go to thesaurus.com. Then experiment and have fun with words and writing haiku.

(Feel free to submit your haiku below as well as turning it into the folks at the Denver Post. Good luck!)

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