The greatest haiku contain the sense of revelation we associate with Zen, and there's compression. Many haiku, those of its finest practitioners, have no Zen whatsoever. No, it is man who fills a poem with Zen. Haiku, we like to feel, is the greatest of the Zen arts. As you know, Basho, our greatest haiku writer, was a Zenist.
Every place is full of poetry.
All one has to do is go find the poems. That's why we can write one hundred poems in a day about a place we visit. I assure you the practice is based on fundamentals which lead to great discoveries. A good writer ignores no aspect of contemporary life. They make our world, whether we like it or not.