Transitory

catch a cloud today ~ tomorrow’s not guaranteed ~ yesterday is gone — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Shaded

a tinge of sadness ~ in the echo of your song ~ drifting through the night — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Wanting

a fist full of dreams ~ is all I have to bring ~ will that be enough? — © Lize Bard 2 Haiku out of Africa

Softly tread

tiptoe through my mind ~ leaving traces here and there ~ filled with gentleness — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Inexplicable

I cannot explain ~ the solitary vastness ~ of a silent soul — ©  Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

African skies

lyric to my song ~ your words touching the blue notes ~ laying deep within — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Hiding

found my emotions ~ lost in a grey Pierneef cloud ~ that you will not see — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Township humour

women’s soft laughter ~ coming from the village well ~ where their men are shared — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Young discovery

found her delving ~ her mind’s creativity ~ an art student’s dreams — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Aloidendron dichotomum

up the kokerboom ~ towards the evening sun ~ of African dreams — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Enamel

inequality ~ reflected in our objects ~ still not redundant — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Loss

our sadness deepens ~ when even flowers are grey ~ in a world of pain — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Arousing

we’re stirring awake ~ waters that used to be still ~ from furthest oceans — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Tossed

we’re thrown together ~ in this teacup’s stormy seas ~ finding inner calm — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Through the gate

she opens her arms ~ to embrace the sand and shrubs ~ Kalahari dawn — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Lithe

graceful wind blowing ~ healing of a broken star ~ endless universe — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Thank you for …

allowing my flaws ~ permitting me to get lost ~ gathering my bits — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Greymatters

an interesting game ~ sharing and closing of minds ~ never knowing all — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Look

in our daily grind ~ we so often miss to see ~ the beauty of things — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Ownership

fence off these oceans! ~ howls of the capitalists ~ who ruined it all — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Schmetterling

let us fly away ~ to a land filled with strange fowls ~ and rainbow feathers — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Gone

I miss your kind eyes ~ when I water your garden ~ and see your trees grow — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Restricted

once open now locked ~ one cannot help but wonder ~ what went wrong and when — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Yarn

slumber catching up ~ with the burnt-out filament ~ of a splendid day — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Aged

you no longer shine ~ your energy has been drained ~ I miss who you were — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

In vain

with our futile words ~ we write into the spaces ~ where our hearts should be — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Uncomprehensible

I would understand ~ if it came in a bottle ~ this far-off message — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Recollection

message from the north ~ “Sunrise over frozen lake” ~ brought a morning smile — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Betty’s Bay, South Africa; July 2018

these are our mind-songs ~ music that moves us to stillness ~ in a world of noise — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

This place

it seems forgotten ~ the words you wrote from afar ~ wishing you were here — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Adrift

like a floating gull ~ drifting on the ocean’s breeze ~ happy to just be — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Vocabularies

these are the words for ~ conversations left vacant ` in our moments shared — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

This day

today I curled up ~ in the safety of your mind ~ a beautiful space — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Shape shifting

as our spaces shift ~ a parallel universe ~ gains its final shape — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

M

Make-believe today ~ Magic of tomorrows ~ Mysteries of souls — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Blush

colour me gently ~ with the pastels of sunrise ~ into the new day — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Mindscape

landscapes of the mind ~ unfathomable beauty ~ and complexity — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Still falling

still in my mind’s eye ~ a festival of colours ~ from our last autumn — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Like moss

you have grown on me making the days much warmer ~ after years of cold — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Sheltered

in still seclusion ~ you whisper my favourite songs ~ perfect melodies — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Sound swept

they sweep through our minds ~ these melodies of the past ~ wish that all could hear — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Inspiration

then it came to me ~ while sitting on a park bench ~ wishing you were there — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

In vain

as you make your way ~ through the fibres of my being ~ I try to resist — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Through perception

you gather them all ~ the scattered pieces that’s me ~ lost throughout the world — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Legroom

life’s complicated ~ yet we need to find that space ~ we can call our own — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of africa

Strut

brace against the storms ~ against oceans and the wind ~ find the calm within — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Gewaarwording

so then, this is love ~ simple and complicated ~ all things all at once — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Too brief

time flies like a gull ~ when we travel seven seas ~ and the oceans too — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Enthralled

wandering spellbound ~ amongst the arches of the past ~ and cobblestone streets — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Multiplicity

many shades of night ~ pass in my rear-view mirror ~ as I drive away — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Like a rock

what is a woman? ~ we are soft and kind and strong ~ we are who we are — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

I wonder …

will you follow me ~ onto unexpected paths ~ and a simple world? — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Ample

under open skies ~ far from the squeeze of a crowd ~ all seems plentiful — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

180°

I cast a white rose ~ on the grave of our sweet love ~ then you turn around — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Off course

on these stormy shores ~ in spray carried on the wind ~ something went astray — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Celestial

when you have courage ~ meet me here in outer space ~ where we are possible — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Wonder

flash of brightest blue ~ captured in grey and green ~ caught me by surprise — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Old friend

I lost track of you ~ over the years and distance ~ now I wish you here — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Stacked

shoulder to shoulder ~ gently touching the future ~ with hints of the past — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Visceral

the raw emotion ~ that’s reflected in your voice ~ contradicts your words — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Crossing borders

a faraway look ~ crosses the veils of your eyes ~ in a swift daydream — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Dreamscape

fata morgana ~ of my quiet wanderings ~ born from nothingness — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Profundity

moments that we share ~ bring such unexpected depth ~ touched by tenderness — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Cherished

waves roll in goodbyes ~ I’m pondering the oceans ~ and our treasured days — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Valued

they’re the most treasured ~ those moments unintended ~ that last forever — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Warren

I stumble into ~ the labyrinths of silence ~ finding my way home — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

In circles

thinking our own thoughts ~ spinning our delicate webs ~ words that hug our worlds — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Afrca

From my window: Hermanus, South Africa; July 2018

calm against the storm ~ stillness within the restless ~ silent moments shared — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Inbetween

here where seasons meet ~ it is neither hot nor cold ~ beautifully warm — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Waterblommetjie

floating on the pond ~ the words that we cast adrift ~ like waterlilies — for lunarpoet © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa