Spring Equinox 2025 – Haiku Musings Event

To mark the Southern Hemisphere Spring Equinox in 2025, we offer a new interactive opportunity – a chance to contribute a Haiku Musing and to respond to other poets’ musings. The prompt question for you to muse on is:

What do you find most helpful when writing haiku?

Writing a haiku can involve many considerations, such as where you find inspiration, the kinds of experiences you like to write about, your aims and approach, the haiku craft and techniques you employ, and how you go about editing your compositions. You are invited to share your thoughts on aspects important to your haiku compositional process. 

Please keep your Musing to no more than 250 words.

You may also respond to other poets’ musings with succinct comments.

This Haiku Musing event opens on Saturday, 20th September 2025, Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST), and closes on Sunday, 28th September. 

We look forward to contributions from haiku poets worldwide.

Please enter your musing in the comments section below, and reply to a poet’s musing by using the ‘reply’ option below the comment.

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52 thoughts on “Spring Equinox 2025 – Haiku Musings Event”

  5. Hi Lynette,

    re:

    our understanding is limited. For example, at the periphery of what you are saying, other creatures perceive the world with different focus than humans and have senses that outclass our range of perception. Haiku from the perspective of a cat? Or a bat? That is a thought to mull over. I include different creatures that live in a virtual realm that we use marginally, but only partially understand.

    That’s certainly a case of persona haiku?

    Persona Writing in Literature Definition: 
    A literary persona is the distinct voice an author creates to tell a story or poem, like a mask worn to speak from a different perspective. 

    I’d say most animals perceive the world differently from the human animal. So far we are the only animals can create written literature. Whenever I’ve been in long sustained contact (Queensland farmland, charity landcare 2000 acre project, or Brandon Park, Bristol UK, where I spent a very harsh whole winter feeding squirrels) I’ve witnessed things that don’t even appear in wildlife filming programmes. Human animals tend to have a blinkered view whenever we base ourselves purely in an urban environment. We also know that other animals have a wider and longer range, e.g. sharks can smell blood from hundreds of meters away—in concentrations as low as one part per million (ppm).

    Even small animals, a general grouping for all of us, from mammals to insects etc…

    Atlas foothills…

    bees jostle pickers 

    for saffron

    Alan Summers

    Haiku Dialogue series: A Sense of Place: MOUNTAIN – hearing ed kjmunro

    the sound dome of bees

    how many shades of color

    can a human see

    Alan Summers

    Mainichi Best of Haiku 2015 Selected by Isamu Hashimoto

    i.e.

    Bees see colours differently than humans; their visible spectrum includes ultraviolet (UV) light, blue, and green, but not red, which they perceive as yellow or orange. Because flowers often have UV patterns or “nectar guides” visible only to bees, these flowers appear very bright and attractive to them, even if they seem plain to human eyes. INTERNET

    Of course VR can allow us to be the giant wasp or Dr Who! Both are shape-shifters too! (smiles)

    Alan

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  6. Hi Julia, I don’t know how common they are, but there was one at a sightseeing place we visited where you could leave haiku and another at the Basho museum in Tokyo, where we all left haiku we composed on the spot. I am sure others have encountered more.

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