Do you Haiku?Opening Day is right around the corner, and weÆd like to celebrate the newfound international flair of the home town team with the Boston.com Haiku Contest.

To enter, simply submit your haiku below by hitting the "Reply" button. WeÆll be collecting haikus leading up to April 2 û Opening Day! On April 3, weÆll post the 10 best submissions and fans will be able to vote for their favorite. The winner will be announced the day of Dice KÆs first start (likely April 5).

The subject of your haiku should be about the hometown team, or our new pitcher from Japan.

The 10 finalists will each receive a Dice-K T-shirt, courtesy of the Boston Globe Store. The grand prize winner will receive a Dice-K prize pack, including a T-shirt, and other baseball themed prizes.

WhatÆs a haiku? A haiku is a Japanese verse form consisting of three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.

HereÆs an example:
Dice-KÆs first Sox start
Gyroballs will be flying
Win it all again

Now itÆs your turnàgood luck!

We got Dice-K signed.

Beat the Evil Empire.

Series, here we come!

Gyroball? Slider?
It doesn't really matter.
Pop-up or ground ball or K!

Our Japanese guy

Way cuter than Matsui

Monster will prevail

Matsuzaka-san
Will put the Yankees to sleep
Wake up champion

In left, on the mound
Now Boston has two Monsters
The series is ours

Matsuzaka-san

Hurls fastball, curve, springs a change:

Opening Day in Fenway!

Look out evil Yanks

A new sheriff is in town

Beware of Dike-K

Bring on the Yankees

Bring on the rest, with Dice K

Red Sox should be best!!!!

Matsuzaka-san

Welcome to Boston, new friend

Wear 18 with pride.

Dice-K is pitching

Is that noise the gyroball?

No, photographers

Red Sox Nation All

Hopes "Matsuzaka" is not

in English, "Clement"

Dice K's Gyroball
Is it geometrical
or myth? Swing batter!

Matsuzakasan

Welcome to Fenway, Dice-K

Next stop, World Series

Throw the ball over

Smell of Fenway dogs in air

The grass is ready

Many new Red Sox

International flavor

But still our home team

white blur, pinstriped curse

from land of the rising sun

dice K sets down yanks

Batters gaze aghast

Dice-K san buckles their knees

Heat from the rising sun

a sound of thunder

here comes the heat, up and in

domo arigato, Dice

Firm on Fenway's mound

An arm wtih pointed control

Dice-K drives it by.

Unleash the gyro
Mystical demon hurler
Feel Fenway erupt

Here come the Red Sox

With Dice-K it's a sure lock

in '07 they'll rock !

"Dice-K Saves Day!"

Reads the Boston Globe headline

"Sox Win The Series!"

Papi, Manny, 'Tek,
Daisuke, Go Sox! Come Fall
Bo Sox Win Series!

Oh fearsome gyroballà
No bat can touch you
When knees buckle.