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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
