A Croatian, Evica Kraljić, born 1952, has published 4 books of poetry and one of her prose work. Her 12 novels have been published in newspapers.

validating solitude -
sudden birdsong vanishes
across the horizon

wisteria in bloom -
the strangers share
their relief

windy calligraphy -
my father's arable crops
follow his words

exhausted migrants -
through the pine trees
dusk passes

autumn burial -
toothed leaves encode
all our silences

purple dreams...
scratching of a pine twig
on my window

spring pilgrimage -
first cherry blossoms
in mother's sandals

The Haiku Moment Award: Best of Volume 1 (issues 1:1 and 1:2) Autumn Moon Haiku Journal

late autumn -
in a flurry of haze
harvest moon

blossoming...
a marble banister
gathers sunlight

starlight -
the tadpoles vanish
in a blurry pond

night jasmine —
her bloomed soul brings water
to a refugee

The Basho-an Award, Tokyo, Japan, 2019.

first snow —
the catalyst
for my writing

time is paused
neither dead nor alive
a frozen embryo

IAFOR Vladimir Devidé HAIKU AWARD 2018, Kobe, Japan (Runner up);

Malvina Mileta lives in Istria, Croatia. She has published a poetry collection ZAD NAS PORTON (Behind Our Doors) and a novel CRNI SNIH (A Black Snow). Mileta has received a number of awards for her lyrics and haiku. She is the author of two theater plays and the speaker for the NIT Television.

security camera -
a secret kiss caught
at the grocery store

angler by the bank -
a kingfisher alights
on his rod

fox’s voice –
as if the half-moon
burst out laughing

New Year’s eve—
loud celebrations echo
among the stars

summer dusk –
passing through the gnats
by the brook

Nada Jačmenica is a medical doctor and physical medicine specialist living in Sv. Kriz Zacretje, Croatia. She's a seasoned poets and prose writer. In the field of visual arts, she arranges petal patchworks for exhibitions. 

old fountain
almost within reach of
a blossoming cherry

Bashō's statue
by the Sumida river . . .
the flow of words

in the morning
more numerous than people
Higashi Chaya lanterns

*Higashi Chaya is the historic geisha district of Kanazawa famous for its old tea houses, little streets, museums and restaurants.

up the narrow road
towards Bashō's hut
Buson's grave

*Konpuku-ji is a temple in Kyoto, where Matsuo Basho stayed in the original residence in the 17th century, which was subsequently lost and then later rebuilt in the 18th century by the great painter and haiku poet, Buson. Buson's tomb and the one of his three disciples can be found near the small cottage.

Dejan Pavlinović, Croatia
Michael Dudley, Canada
Tomislav Maretić, Croatia

*each haiku is written collaboratively by the three authors

Tomislav Maretić has written haiku for the past 30 years. They have been published in Croatian and in international journals, anthologies, and almanacs. He lives with his family in Gornje Vrapče, a small village near Zagreb. 

I shine shoes
on the balcony –
a meteor shower

wind gusts –
petals swirling together
with a dry leaf