COMMUNICATIVE TIMES No.16

2011

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

Neighbours

I
dropped
into
my neighbors

You
look
serious
lately

I
have
a worry

Please
leave me
alone

I
say

huh ...

Let's
change
the subject

he
says

Have
you become bald
lately

he
asks

the
subject
has not
changed

Aonuma Seiichiro

Reputation

I
said

Good morning

to
a neighbor
this morning

as
I always
do

Good
afternoon

Good
evening

and
so on

People
praise me

say
I'm friendly

but

I
don't know
their names

Kenta Yoshina







Kyoto

I
was born
in Kyoto

grew up
in Kyoto

and
now

live
in Kyoto

Tourists
visit
Kyoto



temples
shrines
and gardens

Beautiful
beautiful

they
say

I
don't
understand

Mariko Sugie

Tradition

My
grandmother

was born
in Kyoto

My
mother
and
I
were not

Can
we ever
become
Kyoto folks?

When
will I
hear
people say

You
are
from
Kyoto!

Yuka Nawano


Nice Dinner

Mother
takes
two hours

to
cook
a delicious

dinner

We eat
it
in
ten minutes

Asami Fujii

Quarrels

I
have
two brothers

We
sometimes
quarrel
over
a trifle

Then
I think

they
are annoying

But
my friend

who
doesn't have
a brother
or
sister

says

I
envy
you

Shizuka Ueno

Eco

It is
hot
today

I
turn on
the
air
conditioner

but
he turns
it off

It
is
not kind
to
the Earth

Yes
and
you are
not kind
to me

I
think

Yukari Nose

Fed Up

I
got
tired of
society

of
people

and
went off

to
an uninhabited
island

Hey
where is
the
convenience
store

I
ask
myself

Shinsaku Fukuoka





Worry

When
my friends
worry
about something

I
think
it's
a small
worry

when
I
worry
about something

the
worry
is
always
big

Fumi Aiyama








Solution

my
room

is
dirty

I
clean
my room

but
my room

is
soon
dirty again

so
I decide

I
won't
enter
my room
frequently

so
my room
remains
clean

Yuki Ueno

POEM

Together

I
am
walking

on
the beach

with
you

there
are
two
footprints

of
me
and you

but
when
I was
in
trouble

there
was
only one

Keigo Kondo






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