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”

  2. Lynette, I agree that haiku can do much more than simply observe nature. Sometimes I find that nature-based images can invite engagement with societal issues.

    clear water

    in Wineglass Bay, we skim

    over whale bones

    (Leanne Mumford, Windfall 2, 2014)

    *

    our shadows falling

    across the ancient midden—

    Murramarang

    (Leanne Mumford, Windfall 8, 2020)

    *

    wading through Tunnel Creek echoes of Jandamarra

    (Leanne Mumford, AHS Winter Solstice Haiku String, 2017)

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  4. “When I write, I need to communicate.”
    I think we can all relate to this, Lynette. Writing haiku, for me, comes from an urge to communicate, primarily to myself – to synthesize my thoughts into some form of cogency. Every other part of my life seems rushed and incoherent. Sitting down to write haiku offers me a rare opportunity to stop and listen to myself and tune into my inner-life.

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  5. Myself and Karen did design a haiku notebook, as designer notebooks hardly got used, so the off-white recycled pages, and the brown covers are excellent for getting dirty, grass stains or coffee stains, so the spell is broken, and we can just write. (smiles)

    Still like scraps of paper of course, and now we don’t use the printer, there’s lots of copier paper to fold into a make-shift notebook. I wrote a whole haibun and several monostich while waiting for my x-ray.

    I do have trouble keeping up my diary, even a fab one my mom-in-law got me, which was workmanlike.

    I do use my laptop to write and/or revise. Years since I’ve used a smartphone for notes and stuff.

    Alan

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  6. How do you write your haiku? Are they scribbled or perhaps neatly printed in a notebook? If so, is it a special book? I use bound notebooks, the prettiest or most elegant I can find. These notebooks are never the sort that are bound together by wires at the side. I have an irrational feeling that such books will be unsafe; the poems will slip off the edge of the paper cliff.

    My latest book is a page to a day diary to encourage me to write, but many days remain blank, or are covered with scribblings about the novel I am writing, or the sequel I haven’t started. But then come a page, suddenly full of haiku that look wonderful, and the next day need much work and reappear in new drafts, or are abandoned as ideas that need reworking. What about you? I would love to hear.

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  9. Interesting. This morning I was looking at an oak leaf and I noticed a scribbly line, only it wasn’t as it was a mine. It had been created by a tiny moth caterpillar, a leaf miner. They spend their larval stage eating their way through a leaf, and these marks are their only trace. I wonder what it’s like to live inside a leaf, what it feels like. It seems so strange and unfamiliar.

    I write a lot about small creatures, as I find their ways of life and evolution fascinating. For a start butterflies hear with their wings. How amazing. When writing I try to see the world from their perspective. Not easy, but doing so can engender new understandings which might help with writing. At the least it engender empathy for another lifeform.

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  10. Your haiku are always inventive and enjoyable to read Alan.

    Thanks Joanna!

        romantic breakfast

        I butter my toast twice

        distracted by my wife

    Alan Summers

    haibun:

    Catching the train 

    in four acts

    Pan Haiku Review issue 5

    haibun & tanka-bun edition part two (Summer 2025)

    (smiles)

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