A giveaway for two lucky Haiku Mamas

Last week a package arrived in the mail from my mom. My mom is wonderfully eccentric and delightfully random so I opened it with much curiosity. What could this one be?

It was a little orange book called Haiku Mama.

My left eyebrow raised of its own volition. Haiku? Seriously? For moi?

I must confess, I’m not a real poetry buff. Dr. Seuss is probably my all-time favorite poet. And as for weird… I mean UNIQUE… styles like haiku? Not typically very interested.

But… like a good daughter, I flipped it open. And was immediately enchanted.

Light-hearted, funny, and very real… these haiku are mothering at a glance in all its glory. Ok, not glory, the opposite actually. But that’s what I LIKE.

I liked it so much I decided to tell you about it. And, on a whim, I emailed Kari Anne Roy (the author) WHO it turns out, has a blog; haikuoftheday.com. Which, by the way, is really fun– you should check it out. She starts each post with a haiku that leads into her day’s entry. Where she comes up with all these haiku I’ll never know… it’s a unique type of genius, for sure!

Anyway, she offered up two copies of the book for me to give away in a contest.

And so… drum roll please… you TOO could be a proud owner of this fun book. It’d be great on a nightstand, coffee table, by the toilet (sorry if that offends, but I’m into reading-on-the-john personally), or as a gift.

If you’d like to be entered into the contest, leave a comment on this post. Next Wednesday I’ll draw two names from a hat and two lucky participants will get a special shipment of their own copy of Haiku Mama!

Oh, and I’ll enter your name twice or three times for each/any of the following:

- write your own haiku in the comment
- link to the contest (and include a link to your post in the comment section)

Happy Haiku’ing, people!

And for the uninformed such as myself, here’s the RULES for writing a Haiku.

Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry. It often centers around nature and natural things in the universe.

The pattern for Haiku is the following:
Line 1: 5 syllables
Line 2: 7 syllables
Line 3: 5 syllables

So, taking a stab, it’s like this:

My small little life
is it a poem? a song?
or a tragedy?

BUT WAIT! I have another one!

Yeah, I know it’s bad.
Haiku is not my bag, babe
I’ll stick to blogging.

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