Haiku pondering

I was writing a haiku and my haiku went from the world/senses to the abstract while the famous haikus go from wide scene to specific individual sensory impression.

This of the famous frog one, translated here by Alan Watts:

The old pond,

A frog jumps in:

Plop!

I was thinking of the research suggesting that those from the East tend to see Gestalt; those in the West tend to see detail or actor/protagonist. And I thought, huh, but the haiku draws you from Gestalt to just that precise figure. That’s weird. Then I thought how our philosophy starts with things and tries to make a generality, a universal - like my haiku. So we see individual and then try to make it part of a law or whatever. But the haiku says, world! Beautiful woodland… a bird’s eye sparkles… it goes the other way. A reverse philosophy… and I thought, well, I guess that’s what I am trying to do when I do these presentations about animals… I'm saying, look - ideas! theories! texts! natural world! ecology! Then, this robin sings. This family of badgers are grooming. These orcas are grieving.

Anyway, here is my haiku sequence:

Above, long-tailed tits chitter

and whistle. Listen!

A crown of glittering sound.

Wind - invisible creature,

clattering branches.

Trees chime in cascades of gold.

What does it mean? This feeding?

This falling? Always

the world is living and dying.