Chiyo-ni is considered one of the foremost women haiku poets and one who really surrended to poetry as a spiritual path:

Rouged lips
forgotton --
clear spring water.

"This is one of Chiyo's best and most memorable realization haiku: she wrote four versions of this haiku at different stages of her life, showing not only her dedication as an artist, but her progression of realization as well. This last one, written at age sixty-two, shows her forgetting her rouged lips (the makeup which was so important to women of her time) while drinking the fresh water. This haiku expresses the heightened awareness that comes when one forgets the self and the mind is present to the moment."

from Chiyo-Ni: Woman Haiku Master
ed. and trans, with notes by Patricia Donegan & Yoshie Isibashi
Tuttle Publishing, 1998