Haiku is an adventure in fun, just plain old common fun with time, events, and happenings using just old common language to tell what it is you discovered and realizing it discovered you discovering it. Haiku is something in Nature you enjoy realizing and seeing that hits you between the eyes and you feel dizzy with giddy realization that you are involved and part of the oneness of the event and the oneness of life, you are in it and it is in you. Sort of like the Tao, the way of life is the Haiku. Then you just don't think really, just let the subconscious do it for you, find the moment that is passing before your sight. Just feel the haiku and don't try to force it into form or being.Issa felt the smallest joy in observing the tiniest things he saw in every moment alive. He feels even the life of a flea, of a small bird, of life's journey along a simple pathway, the way of Zen Haiku. Issa did not write haiku, Issa lived haiku every moment observing and being aware?Issa today in and through words is pure haiku. Issa was the living haiku spirit alive in his allotted moment in the scheme of time. Issa is the spirit of haiku. Haiku is Issa, Issa is haiku. The Tao unfurls in both, both are the Tao. When you read a poem by Issa you see and feel and touch bliss: the feelings of pure common bliss, and that is the best kind of eternity. Issa word always positive that is why I like haiku