A practical toolkit for writing, revising, and understanding haiku — from first spark to finished poem.

The Haiku Crafters’ Suite is a curated collection of haiku-focused tools designed to help you see more clearly, cut more decisively, and trust your instincts as a haiku poet.

This isn’t theory-heavy instruction. It’s a set of working tools I use every day — the kind you come back to again and again while writing.

What’s Included

Each tool in the suite approaches haiku from a different angle — craft, perception, interpretation, and revision:

• ArticleSense
• Haiku Afterlight
• Haiku Dojo
• Haiku Mentor (available separately, for free)
• Haiku Mirror
• Haiku Scope
• Kireji Sensei

Further information, including sample output, is shown below.

Note: You’ll access these tools using your ChatGPT account (free or paid). Once you click the link you'll receive, it opens instantly in your workspace.

ArticleSense

Explores whether your haiku works best with a definite article, an indefinite article, or no article at all.

Sample output (you can click the image to see an animated GIF version in a new browser tab:

Haiku Afterlight

Creates a cinematic, quietly reflective paragraph about your haiku, and optionally suggests/creates an accompanying image.

Sample output (you can click the image to see an animated GIF version in a new browser tab:

Haiku Dojo

Provides a structured practice space with feedback, scoring, and belt progression.

Sample output (you can click the image to see an animated GIF version in a new browser tab:

Haiku Mentor

Provides immediate, insightful guidance to help you create stronger haiku.

Note: Haiku Mentor is also available free, as a standalone tool.
This suite includes it for convenience, alongside the full set of advanced tools below.

Sample output (you can click the image to see an animated GIF version in a new browser tab:

Haiku Mirror

Uncovers the themes, imagery, and aesthetics in a collection of your haiku, identifies your strongest ten, creates a five-haiku signature collection, and ranks/categorizes them.

Sample output (you can click the image to see an animated GIF version in a new browser tab:

Haiku Scope

Explores multiple possible meanings of any haiku or senryu, offering clear interpretations, genre clues, and subtle aesthetic insights.

Sample output (you can click the image to see an animated GIF version in a new browser tab:

Kireji Sensei

Allows you to experiment with cuts, pauses, and punctuation to change a haiku’s tone.

Sample output (you can click the image to see an animated GIF version in a new browser tab:

Note: All poems shown in the sample outputs were written by me and remain my copyrighted work. They are shown here for demonstration purposes only.

Why This Suite Exists

Many haiku resources explain rules. Very few help you develop judgement.

This suite is for writers who want to:

• Understand why a haiku works (or doesn’t)
• Explore multiple readings without collapsing ambiguity
• Improve craft without flattening intuition
• Move beyond “Is this a haiku?” toward “Is this my haiku?”

A note on authorship

These tools are not designed to write haiku for you.

Instead, they are intended to help you see more clearly, question your choices, and develop confidence in your own judgement as a haiku poet.

The work — the noticing, the decisions, the final poem — remains yours.

Who This Is For

• Beginners who want clear guidance without rigidity
• Experienced poets who want sharper revision tools
• Writers interested in English-language haiku as a living form
• Anyone who prefers insight over prescription

If you’re looking for formulaic templates or rigid syllable counting, this probably isn’t for you.

Pricing & Access

Launch price: $25
(One-time payment — lifetime access)

• All tools included
• No subscriptions
• Free updates as tools evolve

This price may increase after launch.

About the Creator

Created by Mark Stuart Farrar, the Aphantasic Haikuist and founder of 17 Onji and author of thousands of haiku exploring perception, silence, and implication in English-language haiku.

These tools grew out of long-term practice — not academic theory — and are designed to support writers at the page, not lecture them from a distance.

Ready to Begin?

If you want a thoughtful, flexible set of tools to support your haiku practice — without telling you what to write — the Haiku Crafters’ Suite is ready when you are.

👉 Add it to your library and start crafting.