Unfolding a map
the cherry petals connect
Europe and Japan
    Eduard Tara (Romania)

（仮訳）
地図を広げると
幾片（いくひら）の桜が結ぶ
欧州と日本
エドワルド・タラ（ルーマニア）

Moon gazing down
Fuji now, in a while
the Mont Blanc
    Boudewijn Walraven (The Netherlands)

月は見つめている
今は富士、まもなく
モンブラン
　　　ボーデウイン・ヴァルラーフェン（オランダ）

Autumn in Kyoto
Was brought to my mind
By the splash of burgundy
    Pavel Gromov (Lithuania) # 18

京都の秋が
目に浮かぶ
ブルゴーニュワインの飛沫
　　　パヴェル・グロモフ（リトアニア）

A little sad that
Hot spring in Europe is not
warm enough for Japanese
(Kazuko Tase, Japan)

At night under the midnight sun
a boat is coming
to the stone house
(Chieko Kubo, Japan)

Rain drops falling
inside and outside
silence is melting on the Seine
(Akiko Shigenari, Japan)

To enter EU
I have no passport
But my shadow goes in
(Marino Fukuyama, Japan)

Meeting again -
the cherry tree I planted
ten years ago
(Minako Noma, Japan)

Columbus pointing his finger
Beyond the horizon
Where Japan lies
(Sachiko Usuki, Japan)

A hedgehog is lost
In Japan and EU. Are
You looking for him?
(Justina Razumaite, Lithuania)

light taste of a Riesling wine
you and I
in a houseboat
(Junko Saeki, Japan)

Sea and Sardinia
Kafka on the shore
all in my carpet bag
(Aki Takimoto, Japan)

a pilgrim from Czech
walking up the stone steps
summer green gale
(Nanae Tamura, Japan)

Violet eyes gaze at
Thousand coloured paper cranes
Gilding in a wind.
(Jovita Kliukaite, Lithuania)

a sunny day of spring
toddler tries on for size
father's judo belt
(ARTŪRAS ŠILANSKAS, Lithuania)

Cicadas drone.
Me with Lonely Planet
in my backpack.
(Kornelijus Platelis, Lithuania)

Europeans too
Fill their travel pillows
With fallen blossom
(Norman Darlington, Ireland)

A dream of Ueno
haunts the water of the Thames,
flecked with pink blossom.
(Lucy Carey, UK)

the zen
of Umami
in a marmite sandwitch
(Helen Buckingham, UK)

a new day -
the rising sun
spreading
(John McDonald, UK)

snow outside the door -
the open vowels
of her dialect
(Jamie Edgecombe, UK)

Echo of passing by
In a Brussels courtyard
Sakura blossom
(Toivo Johannes Cairns, Finland)

frozen full moon night
the northern lights runs over me
gains you in Kioto
(Irene Merilahti, Finland)

At traffic junction
A cherry tree blossoming
here in Helsinki
(Kaisa Kangas, Finland)

Yawning in her yukata
Not enough sleep
in the land of midnight sun
(Anita Sjörgen, Sweden)

On her ninth birthday
A soaring tower
Mistaken for the Eiffle
(Miguel Gambell Barroso, Sweden)

Rainfall -
even the moon fell
into the puddle
(Lars Granström, Sweden)

Last snowball
in spring dusk ...
roe deer's tail
(Daniel Gahnertz, Sweden)

Japanese garden -
my first Sumi-e
a Westphalian oak
(Martina Heinisch, Germany)

warm soup -
with a spoon I catch the letters
of my Japanese girlfriend
(Heike Gewi, Germany)

A ladybug
passing Japan-EU Summit:
Colors of time.
(Beate Conrad, Germany)

If only once more
Kyoto and Poet's Lane -
Blossoming cherries
(Riitta Rossilahti, Finland)

Neighbourliness-
the crysanthemums bring forward
Picasso's "Blue Dove"
(Vasile Moldovan, Romania)

I Whisk
a simple ceremony -
tea, the water of Danube
(Michal Molnar, Slovakia)