It's Time For Holiday Pet Haiku! [And a Giveaway!]

(12/17 ...The giveaway has ended. Thank you to everyone who participated and congratulations to the winners!)

It's time to flex your creative writing muscles and enter the world of Holiday Pet Haiku! Give it a try. Just for fun.

New to haiku? Haiku is a beautiful and elegant form of Japanese poetry. The simplified version of haiku is usually described as an un-rhymed, three-line poem of 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables. See what you can come up with using the theme of pets and a holiday of your choice (Christmas, Hannukkah, New Year's, Kwanzaa, etc). For example:

Buttonwillow sleeps,
dreaming of mouse-filled stockings
with no room for coal

See what you can come up with, and leave your haiku in the comments section of this post for a chance to win one of three prizes: THREE winners will be selected at random and each will receive a

$25 gift certificate to my Etsy Shop!

Each person may leave up to three different haiku in the comments, for three chances to win.

Giveaway ends the evening of Saturday, December 17 at 7 p.m. PST.

Please make sure that I have a way to contact you if you are a winner, such as a link to your blog or e-mail address (you may send info directly to my email if you don't want to make your contact info public). If you visit www.susanfaye.net , you will find an email link.

Also, if you encounter trouble with the Comments feature, you may send your haiku entry directly to my email .

THANKS FOR PARTICIPATING!