Dawn

wind from the maintains ~ carries home sleeping waters ~ at the break of day — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

On route

now you are the path ~ along which I walk again ~ brave and barefooted — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Indebted

then you closed your eyes ~ saying you owed me this song ~ and danced through my mind — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Thinking

they roam hand in hand ~ in their deep connectedness ~ our thoughts and our minds ~ Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Placeless

timeless travellers ~ we are at home everywhere ~ and nowhere at all — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Garnered

behind the window ~ a gathering of objects ~ that explains your days — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Gap

there’s an empty space ` where you hover in my thoughts ~ next to me today — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Traction

those wandering days ~ finding new places with you ~ bestows my footholds — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Pretoria spring

lilac in your eyes ~ from the jacaranda blossoms ~ only once a year — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa17

Late

in the  midnight sun ~ side-by-side without touching ~ our minds are entwined — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Afrika

Assets

I can shed my tears ~ I can laugh against your chest ~ fall into your strength — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Hemisphereic

if things were different ~ if north and south were equal ~ our world would be one — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Traveller

red-sunrise coffee ~ wakes me up to thoughts of you ~ wherever you are — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Little treasures

these are my soft days ~ the ones that I spend with you ~ away from the world — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

In windows

dancing in the rain ~ through the windows of my heart ~ gazing at the streets — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Spell

water like velvet ~ your voice on a cloudless night ~ flying in moonlight — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Dali nights

a fiery night ~ is reflected in your eyes ~ and blue Dali streets — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Nachtmusik

a dust-road night song ~ brings me to a distant door ~ where secrets remain — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

From my window: Lund, Sweden: August 2018

a double-ballet ~ of movement, words and music ~ city to city — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Scattered

we stand in the sun ~ with our dreams strewn in the wind ~ hoping they’ll fly back — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Near

I keep on drifting ~ in the echo of your words ~ sensing your presence — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

In the rain

as you turned your back ~ I expected you to leave ~ yet you stood waiting — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Leaping

when asleep at night ~ we return to innocence ~ and a fearless love — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Hydra, Greece: June 2017

on our absent walks ~ we share our still memories ~ finding back to us — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Direction

city lights like stars ~ come through the dark from afar ~ guiding wanderers — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

This spring

behind autumns past ~ I still remember your eyes ~ finding mine surprised — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

African child

i’ll give my last words ~ my last tears and my last pain ~ to lift your sorrow — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

In Paris

I saw an old man ~ on his journey without hope ~ travelling in peace — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

New phase

in my whispering ~ the end of us is captured ~ the end of our youth — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Florist

a sky of roses ~ lies defenceless in your hands ~ thriving on your touch — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Contemplative

against hidden doors ~ that we perceive life to be ~ I sit in wonder — © Lize Bard 2 Haiku out of Africa

Heat

the fire in us ~ warmed each delicious sunrise ~ cooled into the stars — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

From my window: Barcelona, Spain; September 2018

songbird in a cage ~ shares the sweetest melody ~ from across the street — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Always changing

so distant so near ~ you are the restless ocean ~ that captured my mind — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Spread

pieces of us lie ~ like washed-out ocean pebbles ~ wherever we were — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Poet lost

leaving empty days ~ where did your poetry go? ~ once so prevalent — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Gliding

on a windless day ~ blue reflections float away ~ while gulls drift and play — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Here

this is where we are ~ no pretence or boundaries ~ simply in silence — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa0

Detangle

electronic days ~ we disconnect to connect ~ to be real again — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

On the precipice

caught in a child’s art ~ deep thoughts through time and space ~ of life and of death —©

Boundless

there are no boundaries ~ to the mind’s imaginings ~ to the distance flown — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Glow

look past the chill winds ~ to the warmth that I exude ~ from my inner depths — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Vast

these are the days that ~ I get lost in your greyness ~ my horizons moved — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Groundswell

last night I just sat ~ listening to the waves break ~ wishing you were here — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Orbiting

pulling me closer ~ as you wear my skin of words ~ and I feel your song — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

White noise

I don’t understand ~ what it is you want to say ~ but I will listen — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Eventide

outside brings the dusk ~ it glows on the horizon ~ water shimmering — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Nebel

when morning mists drift ~ in the shadows of your eyes ~ I cant’t look away — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Amassed

freefall through my mind ~ these pebbles one by one ~ that you bring my way — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Softly said

only good words used ~ when I wrote your melody ~ many moons ago — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Briewe

captured in the poems ~ love letters from Africa ~ in sun-kissed raindrops — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

At 05:00

feather-light caressed ~ with this pen’s calligraphy ~ the dawn of each day — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Misplaced

alone in the crowd ~ missing your sense of humour ~ missing my own space — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Personal

now i bow my head ~ in such deep-felt thankfulness ~ and a private smile — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa0

Breathed

a whispered secret ~ lies between these rocks ~ in a moment shared — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Undecided

table set for two ~ but only one has arrived ~ yet three is a crowd — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Allotment

sharing these warm rocks ~ a lifetime lived in the sun ~ the ocean and wind — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Restful

when I catch your tones ~ discerning their inner warmth ~ my mind is at ease — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Observation

sometimes colourless ~ a simple grey reflection ~ at times sparked with blue — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Located

on that single day ~ I found the blue that is you ~ between the green and grey — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Augrabies: South Africa, April 2018

it is in the gap ~ the space between mountains ~ that we find our way — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Reflection

when I look for me ~ it’s in the ocean’s colours ~ that dance in your eyes — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Ride

spinning away ~ in a roundabout of rare words ~ floating on thin air — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Sway

in a sea of grey ~ so easy to drift away ~ and so hard to stay — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

From my window: Malmö, Sweden; August 2018

the cool autumn wind ~ brings a soft melancholy ~ of summer goodbyes — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Capturing time

late into the night ~ I write about the senses ~ brought by yesterday — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Not seeing

Asimbonanga ~ my friend across the ocean ~ until you are free — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Grounded

standing on this rock ~ my two feet firmly planted ~ in tomorrow’s light — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Tumbled melody

they fall into place ~ letters of my alphabet ~ like a symphony — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Swaying to Clegg

African rhythms ~ across a vast grey ocean ~ when I reach for you — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Rainbow dreams

last night I became ~ lost in an enchanted dream ~ playing in the clouds — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Autonomy

you give me freedom ~ to explore nooks and crannies ~ of a brand new world — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa