I’m fascinated ~ this traversed path is unique ~ for every connection — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Darling 2016/11
Month: October 2018
Unguarded
there is no protection ~ against the season of the heart ~ mirrored every day — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Navigation
delicate distance ~ between the shores of our seas ~ negotiated — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Strand 2016/11
Passing by
sometimes I know you ~ the stranger along the road ~ and sometimes I don’t — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Malmö 2018/08
Infill
as silences play ~ around the pebbles of time ~ we fall in the gaps — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Pretoria 2015/12
Back to reality
harlequin of hearts ~ brings laughter and merriness ~ until the mask drops — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa —
Stuck
when I said goodbye ~ you picked up your blue suitcase ~ but then could not leave — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Hermanus 2016/11
Ambiance
wishing you were here ~ between the sun and the moon ~ my moods grey and pink — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Barcelona 2018/09
Indigo
finding our stillness ~ in the hollow of the night ~ and the shape of blue — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Barcelona 2018/09
Ontelbaar
fifty words for sand ~ one hundred words for white snow ~ how many for you? — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Hermanus 2016/11
Blue facade
walking together ~ in the rain and sunshine ~ of this lovely land — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Eye of the beholder
easy to become ~ comfortable with beauty ~ when we let it in — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Barcelona 2018/09
Road sign
u-turn of my mind ~ again and again I turn ~ in one direction — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Stellenbosch 2016/11
People of my words
by writing these words ~ people are turned into poems ~ each with a new breath — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Barcelona 2018/09
Cartography
sailing in the wind ~ across waves we navigate ~ a route that’s unmapped — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Hermanus 2018/07
Lavender Africa
be the horizon ~ be the endpoint of my gaze ~ be my purple dream — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Kalahari 2018/04
Separation
as we drift apart ~ I fly away from sadness ~ into the sunset — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Tokara 2016/11
Unpredictable Brexit
that quirky feeling ~ foreshadowing what’s to come ~ when the end is known — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Lund 2018/08
Vergangklik
our words become dust ~ in which we finger-paint thoughts ~ to be wiped away — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Stellenbosch 2016/11
Shelf
the themes of those books ~ weave the mysteries in us ~ yet the young don’t read — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Lund 2018/08
Balancing act
walking the tightrope ~ of oblique innuendo ~ and finely weighed words — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Stellenbosch 2016/11
Self-absorbed
we don’t hear your drum ~ it’s beating for you only ~ a lonely rhythm — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Barcelona 2018/09
Trust
I leave my fragments ~ without regret or restraint ~ safely in your hands — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Darling 2016/11
Nearby
made me smile today ~ your message from a distance ~ seemed so close to home — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Namibia 2017/01
Miasma
in the silver haze ~ of autumns that are long lost ~ we find our way back — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Landskrona 2017/09
Narrative
tell me anything ~ other than the promises ~ concealed in your eyes — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Daunting
scary they may be ~ but the beauty of the flight ~ inspires the leap — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Walvisbay 2017/01
Manifest
inescapable ~ the way kindness interlocks ~ the way creatures bond — © Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Lund 2018/08
In shadow
a shade shy of love ~ this affection that we share ~ in our private world — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Hysbak
we hold to our hearts ~ those simple little pleasures ~ what no one can know — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa: Adds are not mine
Punctuation
I search your eyes ~ for a comma or a full stop ~ but it never came — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Mason
dormant dimension ~ of words never verbalised ~ of thoughts unexpressed — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Scania 2019/08
Poetry
capturing our thoughts ~ words dancing across the page ~ before they take flight — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Malmö 2016/09
Mosaic
brightly refracted ~ as though a star has broken ~ in thousand pieces — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Park Guell Barcelona 2018/09
Pomposity
I’m lost in the crowd ~ of such senseless posturing ~ your presence brings sense — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Toulouse 2016/06
Tranquility
you and I have grown ~ into our own universe ~ of soft dusks and dawns — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Recollection
when I remember ~ still days filled with sun and wind ~ I find a soft smile — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Malmö 2016/09
Tired
once filled with vigour ~ when life has run its full course ~ fragile pieces fall — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Barcelona 2018/09
Aware
I open my eyes ~ to the silence of your touch ~ just breathing it in — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Baltic 2016/09
Listen
those deaf to silence ~ will not understand the words ~ born from our silence — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Namibia 2017/01
Wind
absolutely still ~ gazing at the horizon ~ I hear you calling — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Karoo 2018/04
Sense-appeal
painting rich colours ~ with the warmth in your voice ~ beguiling my mind — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Stellenbosch 2016/11
Benguela
you are the ocean ~ with a thousand deep secrets ~ washing on my shore — © Lize Bard 2 Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Namibia 2017/01
Creativity
this universe grows ~ beyond the shadows of thought ~ becomes palpable — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Barcelona 2018/09
Timeless
I bring a pebble ~ like an Antarctic penguin’s ~ eternal fondness — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Betty’s Bay 2016/11
Quietly
and we slip away ~ to the edge of the water ~ without diving in — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa: Adds are not mine — Photo: Scania 2018/08
Juncture
here’s my secret space ~ where I drift on a sea breeze ~ with wild strawberries — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photos: background Kalahari 2016/11; sculpture Hermanus 2016/11
Miró Museum: Barcelona Spain; September 2018
something so surreal ~ still wrapping around my mind ~ beautiful delight — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa: Adds are not mine — Photo: Barcelona 2018/09
Devoted
not wasting our words ~ on the silences we share ~ doting on stillness — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Scania 2018/08
Nest
through seven windows ~ we look at the world below ~ and grow wings to fly — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Barcelona 2018/09
Pink stones
living for today ~ cherishing our yesterdays ~ dreaming tomorrows — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Upington 2016/11
From a distance
you may come closer ~ you may tell me stories ~ and all your life’s dreams — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Barcelona 2018/09
Eddying
i got lost in you ~ never to to be found again ~ from those swirling depths — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo:
Flowing
in a fluid dance ~ unpredicted synergy ~ spiralling from us — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Barcelona 2018/09
Plain
this is who I am ~ I am what I create ~ as simple as that — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Babylonstoren 2016/11
Goodnight
alive in stillness ~ the endless sound of the dunes ~ gently tucks us in — © Lize Bard 2 Haiku out of Africa — Namibia 2017/01
Easy
when these days are gone ~ I miss their still company ~ their simple delight — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Opening up
when you read me ~ when you become my story ~ we gently unfurl — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Tinted
in soft morning clouds ~ it’s so easy to forget ~ the land’s thirstiness — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Consistency
always on my mind ~ painting you in these words ~ colour by texture — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
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Blue gulls
like a caged seagull ~ when I cannot share my thoughts ~ then you set me free — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Barcelona
ahhh … Barcelona! ~ where creative chaos rules ~ with such abundance — © Lize Bard 2 Haiku out of Africa
Imperfect perfection
do not hide the flaws ~ they are precious reflections ~ of an unspoilt soul — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Incantations
in those silent spells ~ I don’t want to read your words ~ but will fly with you — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Across the bay
oceans of greyness ~ a land longing for sunshine ~ four degrees and fog — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Pursuit
chasing our hearts ~ through the bright blue milky way ~ each star a lost love — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Splash
usually controlled ~ sometimes my words turn feral ~ my poetry wild — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Perspectives: Paris, France; June 2018
writing from Paris ~ that there is a different way ~ of seeing the world — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Wilderness
after getting lost ~ I went looking for my heart ~ and then lost that too — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Learning
at firs I was deaf ~ please whisper my name once more ~ so that I may hear — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
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