cattails January 2014 Premier Issue cattails Premier Edition: January 2014 ____________________________________________________________ Contents Cover Page • Editor's Prelude • Contributors • Haiku • Haibun • Haiga-Tankart • Senryu • Tanka • Translations-Amelia Fielden • Youth Page • Coffeehouse • aha Contest • Samurai Competition • Pen this Painting • Book Reviews • Artist-Ed Baker • Website-Don Baird • Poet-Beverley George • White Paper-Linda Galloway • White Paper-Dr. David H. Rosen • In Memoriam-Laryalee Fraser • Tribute-John Carley • Video • NOTE: This PDF version of the Premier Issue of cattails does not include the haiga, tankart illustrations, the art work from Ed Baker, as well as other photos. These files could not be found in the old UHTS website backups made before we moved to the new UHTS website Copyright © 2014 and 2017 all authors and artists cattails January 2014 Premier Issue cattails Premier Edition: January 2014 ____________________________________________________________ Principal Editor's Prelude Before I begin, let me say that we are only human and do our very best, but if perchance you do not see your accepted work here, or if you didn't receive a response, please don’t hesitate to contact us right away. We receive submissions in the thousands, and emails do occasionally go awry. However, being online allows us to easily and quickly fix any errata. Moreover, please note that the following prelude reflects this editor’s opinions based on but one school- of-thought out of many. My main objective for cattails is to publish works that present as "Japanese short form poetry", as opposed to any "other short form poetry." See our detailed guidelines here. Haiku and tanka (including related forms), are not without long-established precedents. I encourage that these be applied with modern flexibility. It is my policy to seek the work of contemporary poets with old- souls who don't try to break away from the original forms, but who strive to respectfully "extend" them. This means "yes" to occasional innovations (for which we created the "Coffeehouse" section), but it means "no" to forms that are primarily divergent by authors inventing "brand new" parallel or successive trends of their own. Based on the above, it is my honor to present in this Premier Edition of cattails, collected works of the United Haiku and Tanka Society, the finest works received from authors and artists around the globe. We thank you and truly hope that support of the UHTS will continue to be expressed through the submissions you send our way. —cattails Principal editor an'ya, USA Note: We just received word of the passing of John E. Carley, and our sympathies go out to his family. He and his contributions to our poetry world will be greatly missed. We have placed a tribute page for John in this edition of cattails. If you would like to add to that page, please send your tribute directly to the webmaster cattails January 2014 Premier Issue Note: After a great response thus far to our call for member-signature pieces, we will create special pages for these in the future. Note: We have now created cattails press, and are returning to in-house publishing for our UHTS Annual Omnibus, and the commemorative "Premier Edition" (Details coming soon). cattails January 2014 Premier Issue cattails Premier Edition: January 2014 ____________________________________________________________ Contributors (213) Thank you again to all who contributed to this premier edition. You will notice that cattails is a unique publication insofar as we do not use a standard style Contributor's reference, and here are the reasons why. Over many years in the publishing business, and by following the statistics of our individual page counters, we have determined that most readers go directly to the index to read their own work. By doing so, they frequently by-pass the works of other poets and artists. We realize that this is human-nature, but in cattails, we would like to encourage contributors to read everyone's work, not just their own. We believe this is how we learn about unfamiliar forms, while honing the forms that engage us, while at the same time making new acquaintances. Saeed Abassi, USA Mari Konno, Japan S.M. Abeles, USA Michael Kowalewski, United Kingdom Jimat Achmadi, Indonesia Paula Leitz, Canada Ramesh Anand, India Darrell Lindsey, USA Jenny Ward Angyal, USA Erik Linzbach, USA Zoran Antonijević, Serbia Chen-ou Liu, Canada an'ya, USA Gregory Longenecker, USA Aditya Ashribad, India Bob Lucky, Ethiopia Fay Aoyagi, USA Carole MacRury, USA Dawn Apanius, USA Charlotte Mandel, USA John Armstrong, USA Johannes Manjrekar, India Pamela A. Babusci, USA Scott Mason, USA Ed Baker, USA Giselle Maya, France Johnny Baranski, USA Michael McClintock, USA Don Baird, USA Elizabeth McFarland, Germany Danica Bartulović, Croatia Joe McKeon, USA Roberta Beary, USA/Ireland John M. McManus, England Brad Bennett, USA RD McManes, USA Margaret Bidart, USA Robert McNeill, USA Johannes S. H. Bjerg, Denmark Radka Mindova, Bulgaria Dubravka Borić, Croatia Ben Moeller-Gaa, USA Mark Brager, USA Marianna Monaco, USA cattails January 2014 Premier Issue Alan S. Bridges, USA Ron C. Moss, Australia Helen Buckingham, United Kingdom Liz Moura, USA Owen Bullock, New Zealand Gene H. Murtha, USA Susan Burch, USA Patricia Nolan, USA Andy Burkhart, USA Marija Novota, Croatia James Roderick Burns, United Kingdom Elliot Nicely, USA John Byrnes, Ireland Nancy Nitrio, USA Sondra Byrnes, USA Swaran Singh Nijhar, India Pris Campbell, USA Nola Obee, Canada Frank C. Carey, USA Polona Oblak, Slovenia James Chessing, USA Clodagh O'Connor, Ireland Sonam Chhoki, Bhutan John O’Connor, New Zealand Thomas H. Chockley, USA Saeko Ogi, Australia Marion Clarke, Northern Ireland Sergio Ortiz, Puerto Rico Glen G. Coates, USA Maeve O’Sullivan, Ireland Bill Cooper, USA Pravat Kumar Padhy, India Gordon Cosić, Serbia Ranjana Pai, USA Aubrie Cox, USA Linda Papanicolaou, USA William Cullen Jr., USA Belly Peterson, USA Máire Morrisey-Cummins, Ireland peterB, USA Ann Curran, New Zealand E. Martin Pedersen, Italy Neelam Dadhwal, India John Perlman, USA Norman Darlington, Ireland Robert Piotrowski, Canada Janet Lynn Davis, USA Marija Pogorilić, Croatia Tatanja Debeljacki, Serbia Jasna Popović Poje, Croatia Raffael de Gruttola, USA Jenna Posey, USA Emmanuel Jessie Kalusian, Nigeria Patricia Prime, New Zealand Angelee Deodhar, India Tyler Pruett, USA Chris Dominiczak, United Kingdom Goran Radićević, Montenegro Smajil Durmišević, Bosnia/Herzegovina Carol Raisfeld,USA Marje Dyck, Canada Kala Ramesh,India Robert Epstein, USA Mike Rehling,USA Stephen J. Escobedo, USA Jane Reichhold, USA Claire Everett, United Kingdom Elaine Riddell, New Zealand Seren Fargo, USA Edward J. Rielly, USA Marisa Fazio, Australia Brian Robertson, Germany Amelia Fielden, Australia David H. Rosen,USA Chase Fire, USA Raymond Roseliep, USA Donna Fleischer, USA Alexis Rotella, USA Marilyn J. Fleming, USA Cynthia Rowe, Australia Lee Fraser, USA Djurdja Vuklić Rozić, Croatia Terri L. French, USA Stjepan Rozić, Croatia Jay Friedenberg, USA Claudette Russell, USA William Scott Galasso, USA Ken Sawitri, Indonesia cattails January 2014 Premier Issue Linda Galloway, USA Ernesto P. Santiago, Philippines Beverley George, Australia Bill Seltzer, USA Pat Geyer, USA Darcie Sepko, USA Bernard Gieske, USA Susan Shand, United Kingdom Richard Gilbert, USA Adelaide B. Shaw, USA Merrill Ann Gonzales, USA Keith Simmonds, United Kingdom Brent Goodman, USA Sandra Simpson, New Zealand Joyce S. Greene, USA Dan Smith, USA Surbhi Grover,India Barbara Snow, USA Gwenn Gurnack, USA John Soules, Canada Johnnie Hafernik, USA Ljubica Šporčić, Croatia John Han, USA Richard St. Clair, USA Devin Harrison, Canada Debbie Strange, Canada R. Hariharan, India Karen Stromberg, USA William Hart, USA Alan Summers, UnitedKingdom Peggy Heinrich, USA Rachel Sutcliffe, England Gail Hennessy, Australia Lesley Anne Swanson, USA Elizabeth Howard, USA Irena Iris Szewczyk, Poland Sue Neufarth Howard, USA Noriko Tanaka, Japan Louisa Howerow, Canada Dietmar Tauchner, Austria Samantha Sirimanne Hyde, Australia Hansha Teki, New Zealand Alegria Imperial, Canada Diana Teneva, Bulgaria Nada Jačmenica, Croatia Angela Terry,USA Damir Janjalija, Montenegro Paresh Tiwari, India Branka Vojinović-Jegdić, Croatia Anitha Varma, India Carole Johnston, USA Christine L. Villa, USA Alexander Joy, USA Anita Virgil, USA Ritaj Kalaskar, India Erin Virgil, USA Kirsty Karkow, USA Bette Wappner (b'oki), USA Earl Keener, USA Don Wentworth, USA Patricia Kelly (Roswila), USA Angie Werren, USA Julie Bloss Kelsey, USA Joanna M. Weston, Canada M. Kei, USA Neal Whitman, USA Vitali Khomin, Ukraine Sara Winteridge, England Mariko Kitakubo, Japan Jeffrey Woodward, USA Kathy Kituai, Australia Helen Yong, New Zealand Tricia Knoll, USA Spiros Zafiris, Canada Deborah P. Kolodji, USA cattails January 2014 Premier Issue cattails Premier Edition: January 2014 ____________________________________________________________ HAIKU cockleburs along for the ride my horse's tail Joe McKeon, USA tripod the great egret blinks Gene Murtha, USA july wind rattling the veins of fallen leaves Robert Epstein, USA with new eyes looking at the moon— a pumpkin Marianna Monaco, USA butterflies the weight of their wings on flowers Emmanuel Jessie Kalusian, Nigeria cattails January 2014 Premier Issue trailing lights a meteor shower bathes Virgo Erin Virgil, USA saskatoon bush watching the berries fly away John Soules, Canada caesura frozen in the stream the stream Sara Winteridge,