Here, they are - the winners of the previous six weeks' Group Read. (There are seven because there was a tie one week.) Please vote by email (clsneed@ix.netcom.com or click on my name above) by midnight Thursday. The winner will be announced (and the Grand Prize revealed) on Friday morning. The Group Read Board will be closed Friday night.

My thanks to everyone who wrote and voted for the haikus during the past six weeks - it has been fun. Let's make this the largest voting turnout of the Read. Good luck!

1. O Fate, worse than debt!
   At the sound of it, I blench.
   How can I retrench?

2. Poor Richard is dead.
   He did not amount to much—
   just one syllable.

3. Musgroves, young and old,
   Consider: Cake or no Cake,
   That is the question.

4. A bird of sorrow
   sat on the captain’s shoulder.
   He fed it poems.

5. Handsome and charming,
   He ingratiates himself.
   Too good to be true?

6. While Camden Place sinks
   in curtsies to Laura Place
   Anne flees to West Gate.

7. You speak of Lost love
   I must confess mine to you
   You smile, I am Found