For our third contest, we have another "how could it not be" character upon which to exercise our collective wit:

Lady Catherine

 
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Our timeline follows:

1. By Friday morning* (30th April), please send your haiku to me at pemberley.laraine@gmail.com.

2. On Friday afternoon, I'll post all the haiku in one post here.

3. By Sunday afternoon, please send your vote for the best haiku to me at pemberley.laraine@gmail.com

4. On Monday morning, I announce the winner.

*Morning is 8:00AM CDT, i.e., GMT -6:00

 
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Don't know what a haiku is? It's a seventeen-syllable, three-line poem, with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third line, as follows (spoiler alert!):