Thank you for this 'from the mysterious to understood'!!
and if I allow myself to go on... what if haiku is a prayer then?

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could be...
but to me any prayer is associated with a religious experience, which makes it really difficult to communicate across different cultures. I wonder, if it would be better to use, for example, "appreciation" instead of prayer.

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Not very difficult perhaps if we go along scientific road. :0) But of couse i agree is not very easy as well, when we come across with the stable 'myth' in conscious.

It has been already proved by many scientists mostly great spiritual Christian and Buddhistic texts belong to the poetic way of expression. So here "appreciation' is a good word, but religious is not always unspiritual :)---well and furthermore i see prayers in many languages as those that were always poetic texts (Bible verses, Sutras, Greek and Latin religious texts) producing from the most inner field of soul by poets. I think the king David in his perception and appreciation of the Reality came (and thank you!) from chaotic and superlative in Myth to Logos in his psalms-prayers. Under prayer I mean only that text that you produce in the moment of the superlative intension as the reply for the situation. Virtually haiku is born at such moments.. And so that was the reason I offered prayer as an explanation.

Thank You for challenge!

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smth like haiku - to the understood, i suppose...
haiku - from one mysterious to another m.

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some haiku leave readers even more mystified than they deserve to be ;)

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