COMMUNICATIVE TIMES No.10 Autumn 2003 John Pereira (Editor), Dr. Simon Potter (Associate Editor) Prof. Komei Go (Associate Editor; Kyoto Seika University), Toto Akeru (Art Director)

POESSAYS

POESSAYS West Meets East and Aristotle Meets Basho These little things are not poetry but a simple marriage of the poem and essay forms Poessays in fact are opinions expressed poetically 　　　　　　Editors

An American Joke Often in English Class when the teacher tells us an American joke my classmates laugh loudly I never catch the joke immediately

and if I'm lucky I laugh loudly at home Reiko Kishida

Come Back Early Come back early my mother tells me and when I'm back late she scolds me Mother is annoying I always think

But one night my sister didn't come back early and I worried so much Kyoko Murakami

Real Sport I don't have much interest in baseball although I'm cheering wildly for the Hanshin Tigers right now as my Japanese teacher

who is an enthusiastic Hanshin fan is telling everyone if Hanshin Tigers win I'll give everyone five extra points Erina Tsunemoto

Party Arrived on Planet Earth Dec 17 Happy Birthday! My Father and Mother though have a party for me every year on Dec 25 Ayako Kusanagi

Culture a foreigner at a restaurant was eating sushi You use chopsticks very well I said You use a fork and knife very well he said Makoto Komatsu

Today my parents came to visit me today and said Your room is so clean! but they haven't seen it on other days Akira Kashitani

Talisman When I was a final year high school student my friend and I bought a talisman at a shrine

I passed the exam and got into university but my friend failed the following year she passed without the talisman Kayoko Takada

Circle Adults give children "otoshidama" When they were children they were given "otoshidama" by adults What an interesting circle! Atsushi Kawabata

Older Sister My younger sister is not good at math Help me with this problem OK I said

After an hour You aren't a good teacher said my younger sister Aiko Yamaguchi

Family My father likes pachinko a lot but he always loses One day he took me to a parlor My father lost! but

I won He was real sad so I gave him the pachinko balls and he looked happy

I have come to like pachinko a lot too and I almost always win Yuta Mito

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POEMS

Hills there is a hill in front of me and I climb it and I climb it others are still waiting Takashi Kawamoto

Good Deed Yesterday I shared an umbrella and got wet Today I'm happy Asuka Nishikawa

Music the world is full of music leaves shaking wind blowing rivers flowing birds singing Satori Sekimoto

Snowman the snowman the children made last night is no longer there in the morning their dreams are now no more than water Taku Shibata

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