I applaud these spiritual: I applaud these spiritual Senryu, and I deeply appreciate your respect of the traditional 5/7/5 format of American/Emglish Haiku and Senryu.
First, this is a very visual: First, this is a very visual Haiku---just like being there in the moment: bravo! Secondly, you totally have respected the traditional American/English Haiku, with the 5/7/5 format, and for that you have my sincere applause.
This is a hope filled: This is a hope filled wonderment and one filled with joy and much more potentiality. So much better than the other kind of 'wonder why!'
Brought to mind the image of: Brought to mind the image of a street person (homeless or displaced) worn down by the years and the 'misfortunes' of life. Of course it could be a feel in image form but what a picture this poem paints in this reader's head!
The brevity of most of the: The brevity of most of the lines gives this poem a forward energy, and an authentic tone---showing us a mind in contemplation, but not contemplation in leisure, but in distress as the distress is going on around it and within it. The poem ends with a kind of quiet scream of uncertainty.
And that mysterious term, never-end: is that a state of mind, a place in the soul, some eerie site that appears nowhere on any map and yet is always turning up everywhere?