a quote . . .

our brush against the small and ordinary connects us with the universal and eternal. The absence of the period at the end of the modern haiku is meant to leave the haiku open-ended for an echoing extension into what Blake termed "eternity's sunrise." – h.f. noyes

a quote . . .

Basho (and Blyth) considered interpenetration to be the ‘religious’ element in haiku –the element of wholeness, rather than ‘holiness’ . . . All of life at all times, if we could but see it, is interdependently arising, ever in flux and always meriting our attention. -- H.F. Noyes