Haiku H2O
Transform Southern California’s water story into poetry. This May, the Southern California Water Coalition challenges you to capture our region’s most critical resource in just 17 syllables.
Your haiku is more than art—it’s a conversation. From farmers to city dwellers, everyone has a water story. Share yours and help illuminate the complex journey of our most precious resource. Each poem is a droplet of understanding, revealing the challenges and hopes that connect our eight-county region.
Weekly winners will showcase the most powerful voices. Our Haiku H2O Laureate will do more than craft beautiful verse—they’ll shine a light on the water issues that shape our future. Join 200 organizations in this creative mission: making water’s importance impossible to ignore.
How to Enter
Follow @SoCalWater on Instagram, craft your water-themed haiku in the traditional 5-7-5 syllable format, and post it publicly with the hashtag #SoCalWaterHaiku during May’s submission weeks.
Download the Swell app, follow us at @socalwater, create your water-themed haiku in the traditional 5-7-5 syllable format, and share it as a reply to our post with the hashtag #SoCalWaterHaiku during May’s submission weeks.
- Theme must relate to water resources
- Submissions are open May 1-31, 2025
- One winner chosen each week
Weekly Winners
Week 1
Strong current flows free
Yet holds me in gentle peace
Fear becomes soft calm
by Evelyn Phipps on Swell
Week 3
Each drop of water
Brings abundance into life
Save these precious drops
By Wajiha Noor on LinkedIn
Week 2
Water seems complex,
Yet solutions are simple.
Just work together.
By Carol Lee Gonzales-Brady on Facebook
Week 4
Caresses my skin
Burbles and sings in my ears
Dances with delight
By Christina AuDHD on Swell