Bukusai Ashagawa: Jiku

In 2013 someone asked me, how would I explain or describe haiku ? What is or should the Haiku Poets words communicate to the reader? well, here was my response.

“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”