a still afternoon ~ our winter home full of love ~ green moss on the stones
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Month: November 2017
Poise
passion and impulse ~ need the secret of balance ~ that I find in you
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everything
all that matters is ~ the moment we live in ~ pasts and futures lost
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Nebel
a misty morning ~ folding you in its embrace ~ I stand here alone
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Never-ending song
I can’t stop hearing ~ the vast stillness in your voice ~ a heart’s melody — Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Chosen
the paths we take ~ may lead to nowhere at all ~ their beauty abound — Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Enduring
I’m falling in love ~ with stones wherever I go ~ lasting enchantment
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Sheltered
those feelings are safe ~ even though they are distant ~ we find our way home
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Lost in tought
a gossamer thread ~ thoughts feathering through the day ~ sometimes touching us
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Summer nights
a warm, still, dark night ~ a nightjar at the window ~ dreams are being born — Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Interwoven
breaking our silence ~ such emotion in your voice ~ my thoughts entangled
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Endless
it has no real past ~ this remarkable journey ~ which has no future
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Your poetry
a slave to freedom ~ you tie my heart with your words ~ permitting airlift
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Taking flight
travelling again ~ a soul that’s never resting ~ yet it is so still — Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Archaeology
when we touch the stones ~ they reveal our common past ~ ancestral knowledge
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Unique creature
I saw a rare bird ~ one who soars and drifts and thinks ~ t’was your reflection
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Highlands
I still remember ~ a night in the dark mountains ~ just sitting, listening
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7-5-7
I play with the words ~ until they dare to behave ~ in prime syllables
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Comfort
solace surrounds me ~ as we map our future days ~ shaping our own world
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Sculpted
crafting our moments ~ making them last forever ~ this one fleeting day
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Pause
walk into the leaves ~ an enchanted interlude ~ filled with harmony
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Layered
draped across our words
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covering the nuances
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layers of silence
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Tacit
those unspoken thoughts ~ I can hear them most clearly ~ when there is silence
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After all these years
I miss your kind eyes ~ when I water your garden ~ and see your trees grow
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Dis-order
creative chaos ~ in discipline our freedom ~ a balance so rare — Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Mending
I’ll always know you ~ by the deep scars on your mind ~ healing in my hands
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Transparency
seeing right through me ~ even though I try to hide ~ here I am exposed
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Viewpoint
a changed perspective ~ looking out instead of in ~ at tranquility
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Finding me
when I look for me ~ it’s in the ocean’s colours ~ that dance in your eyes
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Mooring place
a sea of calmness ~ you steer through my emotions ~ anchoring my being
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Convergence
our waters drifting ~ in so many directions ~ yet we always meet
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Deep knowledge
opening the world ~ of knowable mystery ~ travelling through time
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All you say
I am listening ~ when you say nothing at all ~ I hear everything
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Silently
in our silent way ~ we show each other wonders ~ that we have not dreamt
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Connections
we are just floating ~ like stars in the milky way ~ destined to collide
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Passage
this is our journey ~ captured in these syllables ~ of simplicity
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Slip
though I try to hide ~ my fingertips betray me ~ touching what I love
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Connecting
in parallel streams ~ of bodies interweaving ~ so delicately
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Enchantment
it comes from nowhere ~ a fragrance, whisper or glance ~ leaves us defenseless
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e-Poetry
our words reaching out ~ across the seven oceans ~ meeting in mid-air
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Disappearing act
when I disappear ~ in the softness of the stones ~ harmonies unfold
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Gardener
the soil blossoming ~ caressed with sublime fingers ~ into yielding fruits
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Twilight
when this bright blue day ~ dips into the twilight hour ~ I miss your stillness
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Keepsake
picking up a stone ~ place it gently in your hand ~ to go home with you
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Synchronicity
freefall of my mind ~ is safely caught in your hands ~ flying in concert
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Kalahariland
on this wide landscape ~ the earth folds back on herself ~ to protect her heart
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When we write
thus we paint our words ~ on empty white canvases ~ creating new worlds
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Stockholm: Sweden, September 2017
distant bells ringing ~ cold wind pages through the leaves ~ winter’s heralding
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Danger
moths around the flame ~ they play with fire tonight ~ only wax remains
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Dialect
always something new ~ as I read and read again ~ a body’s still words
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Boundless
transcending borders ~ with all of what I adore ~ a wanderer’s heart
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Affluence
so much art afloat ~ even toddlers are queuing ~ for new exhibits
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Lost opportunity
you came whispering ~ but through the noise I was deaf ~ so I missed your song
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Drummer
the beat of a mind ~ the pulse of intelligence ~ beautiful patterns
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Broken
here the heartbroken ~ the forgotten, unsheltered ~ lay in graves of stone
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Sweet nothings
it’s sweeter than sweet ~ words on the tip of my tongue ~ round deliciousness
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Found
the heart comes to rest ~ and stillness settles in ~ the search is over
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Reading poetry
when the day gets quiet
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my soul can start breathing in
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the air of your thoughts
Companion
finally I found ~ that I want to wander with ~ the rest of the world
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Hourglass
sand sifts the moments ~ as they slip into the past ~ captured in these words
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Creativeness
an eye for detail ~ voluptuousness of the mind ~ gives birth to beauty
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This day
this a perfect day ~ will soon splinter on the wind ~ of our memories
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Repeat performance
I am lost again ~ in the depths of soft greyness ~ that float in your eyes
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