Prayers Poems?

We begin each section with brief prayers in which we hold ourselves to the haiku metrics of three verses of 5/7/5 syllables, though in some instances we do not use the cut as is customary in the original genre. More than poems, they are prayers in three lines and seventeen syllables. Some are versions of verses originally composed in Spanish, here interpreted, translated, transplanted to English. Some contain more than one stanza.

Deeply felt prayers
are poems, songs directed
at Goodness, at Love.

In meditation,
we pause to listen closely
to the truths of now.

Yoga and Zazen.
May our daily practice serve
the true greater Good.