Month: December 2018

Elapsed

in forgotten dreams ~ I still hear your silent voice ~ your hands fly like birds — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Dissolved

I melt in your calm ~ fight with you through dark storms ~ finding shared breath — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

From the east

stirring sea and sky ~ the rising sun a kiss ~ coming from afar — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Saved

falling from your lips ~ and stumbling through your words ~ but then you catch me — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

From within

something engulfs us ~ when dancing to no music ~ hearing our hearts beat — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

African song

it’s a melody ~ that caresses a still heart ~ ’till it falls apart — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Image

they live forever ~ captured in paintings and dreams ~ cradled in our minds — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Sprout

sometimes they begin ~ in such beautiful silence ~ simple moments shared — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Continuation

still looking for us ~ unravelled and blown apart ~ by the winds of fate — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Seasonal

because knowing that ~ freedom lies in solitude ~ I can say goodbye — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Stretched

we walk tippy-toed ~ across the tightrope of hearts ~ intersecting ours — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Sunscape

a distant fire ~ burning the fears of our hearts ~ spreading its warmth — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

In silence

living our still lives ~ some of us will walk alone ~ in a moonlit sky — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Age

we are old like sand ~ like the mountains and the sea ~ for we are stardust — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Of rainbows

a few drops of rain ~ the Kalahari blooming ~ and colour erupts — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Left-Right

creativity ~ born from wisdom and folly ~ in equal amounts — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Earth

and so we can write ~ such a beautiful story ~ of a simple love — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Flecked

sun-dappled mindscape ~ shadows playing hide and seek ~ with sadness and joy — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Curved

I look at the moon ~ it’s wandering in your eyes ~ reflecting a smile — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Membrane

I cannot discern ~ the dream from reality ~ in shared emotions — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Doorsteps

when you say my name ~ and draw me ever closer ~ I melt through these walls — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Minimal

simplicity is ~ the hardest thing to achieve ~ easiest to lose — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Waiting

standing in one world ~ looking into another ~ always waiting — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Masked men

you’re giving glimpses ~ of the beauty of your mind ~ staying out of reach — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Unsettled

loving solitude ~ thrown when someone comes along ~ settling in my mind — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

State of being

it is so easy ~ your words reflecting my thoughts ~ about how we are — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Bridge

not giving a damn ~ is what you have to pretend ~ we know differently — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Here

in this quiet place ~ in a corner of our hearts ~ poetry is born — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Evermore

without intention ~ finding a still resting place ~ that leaves me stranded — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Diversion

as I play with words ~ allowing my mind to fly ~ it finds back to you — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Frühjahr

late-afternoon light ~ when winter is almost spring ~ the idea of warmth — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Shades of grey

a sad summer blooms ~ in the shadows of your eyes ~ a season of loss — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Brief indulgence

when the days are blue ~ I may follow my heartache ~ for a little while — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Guarded

cautious of falling ~ in the abyss of the mind ~ where we find ourselves — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Morning after

a Highveld morning ~ and in each lingering drop ~ the storm is captured — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Gift

fragrant red roses ~ in the middle of winter ~ bring warm memories — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

New shoes

when we breathe the wind ~ leaping past mirrored stars ~ we become alive — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Challenge

when I dare listen ~ the silence echoes a name ~ that I’ve yet to learn — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

In-between

breeze of the oceans ~ blowing hot and blowing cold ~ hold me in suspense — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Politicians

when they steal our dreams ~ don’t let them chop down our tree ~ where the birds sing true — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Blown in

this morning’s songbirds ~ brought with them a gentle voice ~ from across the sea — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Deep winter

ice-blue in her eyes ~ and her hands like two cold spoons ~ sending you away — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Taking flight

it is an idea ~ the sensations we create ~ it is nothing more — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Seeing

here’s looking at you ~ and the silence of your eyes ~ speaking to my mind — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Rediscovery

long-lost worlds revealed ~ light reflecting in your eyes ~ tomorrows concealed — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Voyage

journeys of silence ~ journeys of ancient pathways ~ and wind blowing sand — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Acropolis

through olive orchards ~ across white marble pebbles ~ in Athena’s arms — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Looking down

my feet remind me ~ of the places I have been ~ of my father’s stance — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Strange bird

Landscape

Places

Just another day

Recall

Geitjie

Spanish morning

Collected

Reach

Anchored

Whisper

Time

Peripheral

Lost passenger

Pull

Reading

Worlds apart

last night in your sky ~ a horse-shoe moon and stars ~ a four-leafed clover — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Pensils

artwork created ~ with every word we write ~ something new is born — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Parody

in its mocker ~ the parrot’s voice echoes mine ~ inescapably — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Handouts

bird songs and soft rain ~ my early-morning greetings ~ lovely Highveld gifts — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Beacon

we see each other ~ and greet on roads untraveled ~ meeting in our minds — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Early bird

red-berry daybreak ~ reflected in the mirror ~ of your morning song — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

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