All submissions are here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku604-in-spring-sunlight

To participate in the Haiku Music challenge:

- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)
- When choosing a title for your piece also include the assignment number, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku382)”

To submit your track:

- If you’re a Soundcloud user, upload it on Soundcloud and send me the URL via private message, or tag me in the track.
- If you upload your music on Youtube, Bandcamp or anywhere else, upload your submission and then send me the link by email at marco@naviarrecords.com or contact me on X, Facebook or Instagram
- If you don’t use any music platform, upload it to this Dropbox folder and I’ll include it in the weekly playlist. If you choose this option, make sure you include your name in the track’s title. www.dropbox.com/request/JvKyUfuCSzJ3gRNRocZz

more info here: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Your track may be included in Naviar's weekly podcasts and free (pay-what-you-want) compilations. If you can, please set the track as downloadable on Soundcloud and allow others to remix/reuse it by using a Creative Commons License.

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haiku #604: In spring sunlight / the rows of tea bushes / ripple like waves

Thanks to Marco for suggesting the Haiku.

Inspired by Haiku

A musical response to the haiku:

even the fields
have a morning attitude
blue mist

by Kobayashi Issa 
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kobayashi-issa

picture by Marcel Gross https://unsplash.com/@marcelgross_ch

Into Mist [naviarhaiku412]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
604
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku604-in-spring-sunlight/

2025-07-31

In spring sunlight (Naviarhaiku 604)

In spring sunlight
the rows of tea bushes
ripple like waves
 

Tōge Morita (1924-2013) was a Japanese teacher and poet from Osaka. In the early 50s, he started publishing his poems in the Katsuragi 葛城 magazine, later becoming its editor-in-chief and, in 1990, its editor.

Haiku by Tōge Morita: https://www.lucacenisi.net/2023/04/16/cinque-haiku-di-toge-morita/

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

more halF unusuaL

halF cuppA [naviarhaiku604]

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 11 Nov 2020 & 30 Jul 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, effects.

This original version of "Old Liver Fall” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 604: In Spring Sunlight.

In spring sunlight
the rows of tea bushes
ripple like waves

by: Tōge Morita

Tōge Morita (1924-2013) was a Japanese teacher and poet from Osaka. In the early 50s, he started publishing his poems in the Katsuragi 葛城 magazine, later becoming its editor-in-chief and, in 1990, its editor.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 18 Nov 2018, LIRR, NY, USA

Music & art © 2018, 2020, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

Old Liver Fall (naviarhaiku604)

HAIKU MUSIC CHALLENGE

Naviarhaiku 604

In spring sunlight
the rows of tea bushes
ripple like waves
 

Tōge Morita (1924-2013) was a Japanese teacher and poet from Osaka. In the early 50s, he started publishing his poems in the Katsuragi 葛城 magazine, later becoming its editor-in-chief and, in 1990, its editor.

Haiku by Tōge Morita

Picture by Kyle Bushnell

Submission deadline: 6th August 2025
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Whisper fields (naviarhaiku604)

An electronic composition, original sounds created using Pure Data.

Sunlight Ripple (naviarhaiku604)

Inspired by the haiku:

In spring sunlight
the rows of tea bushes
ripple like waves
 

by Tōge Morita


To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Ripple [naviarhaiku604]

from evening mist
the bell
of life passing

by Kobayashi Issa

Music composed in response to Haiku.

Haiku

The Mist Bell Tolls [Naviarhaiku332]

Made in response to the Haiku poem:

Inspiration flows
in the least resistant path
nature makes a choice

by Raymond Stull https://soundcloud.com/stull

image includes photos by: 
Terry Vlisidis https://unsplash.com/@vlisidis
Chris Abney https://unsplash.com/@chrisabney

Thanks Marco at Naviar

The Least Resistant [naviarhaiku349]

Flutteringly,
Floating in the breeze,
A single butterfly.

A piece made for that haiku by Masaoka Shiki.

Photos in images by:
Gary Bendig https://unsplash.com/@kris_ricepees
Marie-Lou Wechsler https://unsplash.com/@wanoum

Thanks to Marco @ Naviar.

haiku

I hope she lands on me [naviarhaiku350]

the surface of the water
like ornate silk
spring rain

by Ryōkan Taigu

was the inspiration for this piece of music.
Image adapted from photo by:
Tim Mossholder https://unsplash.com/@timmossholder

Ornate Surface [naviarhaiku352]

I am a human animal & through my creative practices seek to connect to the flow of life to let my innate intuition guide me before my logical mind controls me. To undo or at least side-step some of my cultural conditioning so the spirits of the place I am in can express through me. This  forest I am in, the rock I sit on beside this stream, the footpath below my feet, this vast planet we all live upon. The natural world so often unconsidered, ignored, I aim to give it some voice.

Ripple [naviarhaiku604]

Benn DeMole