Simply haiku

In genuine haiku, we live as if for the first time, fresh and innocent, knowing reality through deep feeling. Haiku employ a now-moment's material phenomena as a point of departure for reverberations reaching into interior modes of existence. Haiku are written best and appreciated best through the intelligence of the heart. A haiku is not meant to convince the intellect but to engender what may be termed as an "affirmation" in the very ground of one's being. The greatest pleasure given by an authentic haiku's object-perception as such is always less than the least of joys offered by its spirit. - Robert Speiss