I too got quite caught up with Haiku several years ago and spent a considerable amount of time trying to gain enough understanding of the japanese style and how to translate it to a western language and culture. I never did quite gain the skill to do it. The whole eastern way of thinking tends to be so different and the language so different that I am not sure that a true rendering of the style can be done in english.

However, I still love the form. ANd TW, yours a great. They somehow manage to convey a sense of the japanese from my understanding of what it should be. Yet it is not so foreign in concept and allusion that a western mind cannot see what is being said.

Good Job!