Seasons Calling. James R. McCready
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The Seasons Calling
The Seasons Calling
HAIKU & WESTERN-STYLE VERSE
by James R. McCready
illustrations by Wakana Kozawa
Charles E. Tuttle Company
Rutland / Vermont & Tokyo / Japan
REPRESENTATIVES
Continental Europe: BOXERBOOKS, INC., Zurich
British Isles: PRENTICE-HALL INTERNATIONAL, INC., London
Australasia: PAUL FLESCH & CO., PTY. LTD., Melbourne
Canada: M. G. HURTIG, LTD., Edmonton
Published by the Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc.
of Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan
with editorial offices at
Osaki Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0032
Copyright in Japan, 1972
by Charles E. Tuttle Co ., Inc.
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 74-182063
ISBN: 978-1-4629-1168-4 (ebook)
First printing, 1972
PRINTED IN JAPAN
To my wife
LOIS
Table of Contents
Preface | |
PART ONE: | Haiku |
Spring | |
Summer | |
Autumn | |
Winter | |
Miscellaneous | |
PART TWO: | Western-Style Verse |
Tall to the Stars | |
Japan Is a Longing Forever | |
See the Trains Go | |
Invisible Wounds | |
Tokyo Torment | |
The Waves Roll In | |
Gooney Land | |
Lone Vigil | |
Jimmy Boy | |
The Savage Sea | |
Green Images | |
By the Magothy | |
A Day in Spring | |
The Wanton Sea | |
Mood Music | |
The Ghost Got Up | |
Kids with Kites | |
The Shifting Tides | |
In Arlington | |
Hoofbeats | |
Forsythias | |
Two Leaves | |
Grass | |
The Bluebird | |
Bolero Bold | |
Old Phantoms | |
The Flame | |
Flowing | |
Ever the Sea | |
Hands | |
At Dawning | |
Woodsman with a Scythe | |
Sonnet to a Lost Madonna | |
Glossary |
Preface
As ONE WHO has never been in love knows nothing about love, so I knew nothing about Japan until I came to this exciting land with its strange and fascinating customs. I was another Cortes, discovering the indescribable joys of a new country.
One of my great joys was the discovery of haiku-which the Japanese had discovered and developed more than three centuries ago. Accustomed to the freedom of length, rhythm, and form that characterizes the poetry of the West, I was charmed and delighted with the lyric compression, sensitivity, and awareness of haiku.
Poetry