We’ve had such a mixture of weather all through March that I don’t know whether I’m coming or going. One minute the sun shone and I left off my jumper, the next I was shivering and cursing wind and hail. No wonder the wildlife is confused. Luckily, it hasn’t affected the blossom and flowers in our neighbourhood, which have been keeping me cheerful. April is just around the corner.
boxing and leaping
ears like catkins in the wind
hares zig-zag through spring
Kim M. Russell, 30th March 2026
On this last Monday of March 2026, at the dVerse Poets Pub we are writing haibun on the topic of ‘Mad March Hare’.
Our host, Frank, says that, as usual, the third month on the calendar lives up to its reputation’ and so we are celebraing the madness of March with a tribute to Lewis Carroll’s Mad March Hare from Alice in Wonderland, who delights with his maddening nonsense. Just like March does with its fickle weather.
Frank has given us an example of a poem that conveys the madness of the month embodied by the Hare: ‘March’ by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard to inspire us in writing our haibun consisting of one to a few paragraphs of prose preceded or followed by one or more haiku—nature-based, using a seasonal image.
writing in north norfolk 
Kim, I love your haiku! Glad you have the flowers to keep you company through the madness.
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