Help I don't understand poetry

It is all pretentious shit and makes no sense

(Except Japanese haiku; for some reason they really get to me. OH, and in the ORIGINAL JAPANESE, not the shitty English "translations.")

As it's said in Andrey Tarkovskiy's "Nostalghia", it's better to throw poetry away then to try and translate it into another language. Every stanza, line, word, must be seen as it was written. If you want to appreciate Japanese haiku written in Japanese, then learn Japanese.

This isn't to say English haiku is inferior, but it is unique to English and likewise should not be translated into Japanese.