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

Openness

vulnerability ~ such a precious thing to share ~ in another’s trust — © 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

on these cobbled streets ~ your mind wandered into mine ~ and then I knew you — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Landscape

when you woke me up ~ it was to a brand new world ~ of mists and magic — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Places

leaving our fragments ~ in kitchens and green backyards ~ in our words and thoughts — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Just another day

the joy of this day ~ hours pilfered from our lives ~ from a foolish world — © Lize Bard 2 Haiku out of Africa

Recall

long-lost memories ~ after the still divide of ~ a grey rainy day — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Geitjie

you make the music ~ I dance to its rhythm ~ forever closer — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Spanish morning

from behind your mask ~ there appears a lovely man ~ and three blue secrets — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Collected

I’ve gathered the light ~ that was folded in your song ~ like rays of the sun — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Reach

with the slightest touch ~ all the senses come to life ~ in a foreign land — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Anchored

when I surrendered ~ You enveloped my fears ~ and let me take flight — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Whisper

speaking in silence ~ of the music in our minds ~ colours of our hearts — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Time

little by little ~ they started drifting apart ~ as simple as that — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Peripheral

and there it remains ~ in the suburbs of our hearts ~ black sunlight and ice — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Lost passenger

a journey awaits ~ a protea-pink daybreak ~ a seat is empty — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Pull

love is nothing but ~ an eternal blue yearning ~ tugging at our hearts — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Reading

words give shape to you ~ while the sun clings to the hills ~ before letting go — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

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

Pause

revealing our souls ~ in this moment that we share ~ then I hold my breath — © 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