our hearts are breaking
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there can be no healing them
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until we find peace
© Lize Bard @ https://wandererhaiku.wordpress.com/
Written in collaboration with Poets for Peace where the full poem is available, here it is released on six consecutive Wednesdays
a rare rainy day
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will not keep the drought at bay
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but it brings a smile
© Lize Bard @ https://wandererhaiku.wordpress.com/
standing on the bridge
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watching houseboats floating by
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the water is dead
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what hides in the dark?
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explore the darkness without light
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perceive the darkness
© Lize Bard @ https://wandererhaiku.wordpress.com/
when joy disappears
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my soul flies into the dark
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where I find your trail
© Lize Bard @ https://wandererhaiku.wordpress.com/
bring balance bring time
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protect me like a mantle
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from a midnight lie
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love me love me not
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I’m an intricate woman
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touch me touch me not
© Lize Bard @ https://wandererhaiku.wordpress.com/
the poems are like trails
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one thought leading to the next
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always a surprise
© Lize Bard @ https://wandererhaiku.wordpress.com/
our hearts are breaking
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yet we make each other bleed
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day by day by day
© Lize Bard @ https://wandererhaiku.wordpress.com/
Written in collaboration with Poets for Peace where the full poem is available, here it is released on six consecutive Wednesdays
fast moving fashion
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a slow moving history
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in warm Tuscan sun
© Lize Bard @ https://wandererhaiku.wordpress.com/
myths of origin
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age-old stories repeated
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the mantis whispers
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we play on the moon
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then drift back in an embrace
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teasing fantasy
© Lize Bard @ https://wandererhaiku.wordpress.com/
nothing forever
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on a day the stars will fall
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all of us to dust
© Lize Bard @ https://wandererhaiku.wordpress.com/
mysteries unfold
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we discover each other
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as mates of our souls
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invisible bond
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like driftwood we float apart
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our separate lives
© Lize Bard @ https://wandererhaiku.wordpress.com/
our hearts are breaking
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another girl-child raped
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by known or unknown
© Lize Bard @ https://wandererhaiku.wordpress.com/
Written in collaboration with Poets for Peace where the full poem is available, here it is released on six consecutive Wednesdays
minding my own way
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I just stumbled across you
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you would not let go
© Lize Bard @ https://wandererhaiku.wordpress.com/
the city shimmers
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but beneath prosperity
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something dark lurking
© Lize Bard @ https://wandererhaiku.wordpress.com/
when your voice splintered
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into a thousand pieces
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I heard my heart break
© Lize Bard @ https://wandererhaiku.wordpress.com/
nothing is easy
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yet we remain inspired
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our songs are for life
© Lize Bard @ https://wandererhaiku.wordpress.com/
something forgotten
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something simply left behind
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could it be my heart?
© Lize Bard @ https://wandererhaiku.wordpress.com/
our hearts are breaking
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as bullets rip through bodies
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of known and unknown
© Lize Bard @ https://wandererhaiku.wordpress.com/
Written in collaboration with Poets for Peace where the full poem is available, here it is released on six consecutive Wednesdays
may your souls soar free
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from the pain here on this earth
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fanatically spawned
© Lize Bard @ https://wandererhaiku.wordpress.com/
always so busy
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running away from your mind
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away from your home
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nuts and bolts of life
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though rusted to dysfunction
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still bind them as one
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To the women’s league
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start protecting our daughters
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not your own interests
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four brave young women
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stood mutely against our scourge
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‘man’-handled again . . .
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you hide them away
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without rights or dignity
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a human bother
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our hearts are breaking
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our world’s being torn apart
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with our bare hands
© Lize Bard @ https://wandererhaiku.wordpress.com/
Written in collaboration with Poets for Peace where the full poem is available, here it is released on six consecutive Wednesdays
our brightest young minds
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apply them wisely in peace
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to change your futures
© Lize Bard @ https://wandererhaiku.wordpress.com/
you trespassed through me
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went on to live your life but
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turned my world around
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wary of people
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preferring soft stones and words
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yet you are welcome
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astray on straight lines
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we find long and winding ways
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to pure happiness
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Haiku out of Africa 