Bukusai Ashagawa
Born in Boston, Mass, and lives in Chatanika, Alaska. He’s written over 14,000 haiku, tanka, & haiga. His books can be found in the National Haiku Library, and over fifty Universities throughout the U.S.A. & Japan. His works been translated into six languages.
"Haiku are meant to evoke an emotional response from the reader ... to light the spark that triggers creative rumination ... They act as literary manifestations ... visions of nature’s seasonal modulations ... They're emotionally tinged words, barely perceptible sensory flickers ... literary etchings of lucid visions transposed into the minds of its readers ... They're meant to act as sensory catalysts ... like the passing of a penciled baton laid out upon a piece of paper that a reader might grasp for in their mind's eye ... all of which prompts the reader to continue exploring the sensory experience elicited from the writers pen ... This is how the literary sketching of poets are intended to function ... as creative muses with which readers can draw from and viscerally apply to their own artistic idioms ... from that lucid space within their heads ... where their minds eye can spark their own creative visions" -- Bukusai Ashagawa, 2013
Blog: Bukusai-Ashagawa.blogspot.com
misty sheets of rain
awaken slumbering clouds
on my mtn side
by candlelight
through a bedroom window
a pear blossoms
rapids
washing over me
swaying trees
The Bamboo Hut: The Journal of English Tanshi, Autumn Edition, 2015
Up the Mountain Blurb, 2016
cherry blossoms
cascading pink n’ white petals
spring foliage
dusk
raptors leap forth soaring
hear . . . talons crunching bone
Black Frog . . . Old Pond
fall leaves into young waters
as time goes . . . bye
our love . . . leaves
. . . foliage from a bough
how loves autumned
foliage falling
till boughs bud again
on and on and on
youthfulness . . . leaves
fading foliage falling
bare boughs naked trees
blue moon
upon the tatami
a pine needle
sinking cinders
ash flakes floating downstream
wild land forest fire
voices coursing
amongst streaming throngs
the babbling brook
evening up the mtn
red dots . . . eyes? Oh! I can’t BEAR!
false moonlit shadows
wandering alone
seeking companionship
in solitude
Up the Mountain , Blurb, 2016
Chrysanthemum , #19, Spring, 2016
colours
drifting . . . in free fall
autumn leaves
fall autumns
beyond coloured foliage . . .
. . . faint sheets of rain
napping
oscillating in the hammock
Ah! the fan
Alyeskan Interior (forthcoming book)
darkness
below zero
descending
Alyeskan Interior (forthcoming book)
self worth
non-monetized consumption
fetching water
Alyeskan Interior (forthcoming book)
windblown blossoms
at america’s crossroads
autumn idealists
Alyeskan Interior (forthcoming book)
impermanence
life's itinerant
solitary sojourn
Alyeskan Interior (forthcoming book)
pregnant raindrops
birthed on a sidewalk
SPLAT!
Alyeskan Interior (forthcoming book)
full moon . . . in free fall
repose on my hakama
blossoming petals
Alyeskan Interior (forthcoming book)
our casket
on thin ice
divorced emotions . . . sinking
Alyeskan Interior (forthcoming book)
birth . . . youth
middle . . . old age . . . death
cycling
Alyeskan Interior (forthcoming book)
rustling leaves rouse
ripples summoning forth waves
engulf me
Alyeskan Interior (forthcoming book)
anaphora
life . . . cadenced repetition
anaphoric
Alyeskan Interior (forthcoming book)
that sound
snowflakes falling
autumn leaves
Alyeskan Interior (forthcoming book)
fading drying
a leaf throwing up sunlight
summer leaves
Alyeskan Interior (forthcoming book)
lightning
nature’s semaphore
thunder . . . thunder . . . BOOM!
rapedseeds.
husks swept about by brooms
sprawled naked grains
my life ebbing
faucet leaks into sink
full it overflows
I drop like rain
my destination unknown
let go SpLaTteR
JIKU : Komorebi . . . above, a thousand incandescent leaves, The Blurb 2016
I pedal past
raindrops pummeling petals
wrung dry by high winds
JIKU : Komorebi . . . above, a thousand incandescent leaves, The Blurb 2016
foliage falling
views narrow, colours harden
leaves fall away
JIKU : Komorebi . . . above, a thousand incandescent leaves, The Blurb 2016
sumo wrestler
the greater force
mother’s voice
JIKU : Komorebi . . . above, a thousand incandescent leaves, The Blurb 2016
Spring Kimonos
Edo’s blossoming
Imperial Crest
JIKU : Komorebi . . . above, a thousand incandescent leaves, The Blurb 2016