COMMUNICATIVE TIMES No.8 A Newsletter for Japanese University Student Writers Autumn 2002 John Pereira (Editor), Dr. Simon Potter (Associate Editor; Saitama University, College of Liberal Arts), Prof. Komei Go (Associate Editor; Kyoto Seika University), Toto Akeru (Art Director)

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

FIFA World Cup People from around the world get together and fight it is war a war without weapons Reina Takemura

Big Stick The countries which have the power of speaking up in international society today strangely enough have nuclear weapons Nao Tanaka

Guess Who? They are loving help each other look like good animals but are really the most foolish animals in the whole world

making war everywhere we human beings Masayuki Yagake

Scale To the question Are you healthy? most people would say Yes Does this include your mental health too? Risa Otsuki

Quack Quack I fell down lost my senses was carried to hospital where the doctor said Perhaps you can't walk again I replied I can

All night I cried but three days later I walked Masashi Mizuta

Listen to this ... I learned how listening to classical music can relax us and so I listened to classical music but I couldn't relax

then I listened to my favorite rock music and I could relax Tsunezawa Asuka

Courage I always think I want to speak a foreign language visit a foreign country make friends with foreigners But when the chance comes I fall apart Tomoko Yoshimura

Mornin' A slice of bread and a cup of milk is this morning's breakfast lots of people have less and so I feel happy and a little sad Haruna Yamamoto

Snowbound It snowed all day and all night in my hometown the children played and made a snowman but the cat and I never once stepped out the door Yuko Hayakawa

Together I chose a gift for my boyfriend and he chose one for me Of course today isn't my birthday or his Mika Kawai

Rice Cakes Japanese on New Year's Day often eat rice cakes which are toasted and swallowed like our new hopes Tatsuro Katayama

Life We are in a maze don't know the exit walls all around Where is here? Sawano Takehiro

No problem I'm crazy so my friends are few Daijun Kurano

College Hostel How exciting it is to open this box filled with goodies and love from my parents who live far away Tomoko Umehara

My Graduation I learnt a lot of things while at college although I didn't study Spanish very hard But I don't regret it

because I learned something more important how important it is to live Ayumi Okada

Oh, no! Maybe money is time but time is not money it is much more

money you may get back but not time once gone it is gone forever

while thinking about this problem I've lost both time and money Naoko Yamamoto

POEMS

Shoes I am tired I have worked hard so please buy a new pair and set me free! Shinpei Hayashi

Winter Scenes A lot of leaves have turned red and fallen a mountain near my house is white in places Maiko Fukuyama

Unwelcome He suddenly appears in my room and I am trapped in fear Why are you here? I ask

We are everywhere on this planet says the roach and disappears Yuichi Takasu

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