Look up

Parisian skies ~ today there is blue in your grey ~ and still gazes shared —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Planet

it’s a small blue rock ~ with daisies in her backyard ~ this our earthly home —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Re-enactment

lettering away ~ at life’s pleasures and life’s pains ~ each word a reprise —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Lagom

a song in my mind ~ a pebble in your pocket ~ enough for today —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Splash

you may keep falling ~ in the puddles of my love ~ and summer rainstorms —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Skyward

words flow from my pen ~ looking up to the mountains ~ you should have been here —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Whiteout

your silence is white ~ mine is out in the desert ~ we hear it the same —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Hourglass

so many grains ~ with a pebble in my hand ~ each a universe —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Johannesburg

being black and white ~ you bring all the shades of grey ~ a colourful mix —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Starstruck

laughter in the night ~ when the stars winked at us ~ in a warm embrace —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Rivers

eyes rowing upstream ~ trying to find a twinned soul ~ ’till they rest in you —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

From a distance

drifting in the sun ~ far above the blue water ~ looking at it all —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Inhale

forgetting to tell ~ about this moment of breath ~ that brought us to mind —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Frühjahr

the start of summer ~ the air playful and childish ~ like a new balloon —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Still

eyes that drift away ~ into their silent greyness ~ of innermost thought —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Tunnel

when cold and tired ~ in the shadows of the night ~ tomorrow a dream —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Europe

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

Water’s edge

flying with your mind ~ returning you to the sea ~ always to come back —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Pebbles

with these words I paint ~ the images of our minds ~ in technicolour —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Question

do you remember ~ the blossoms in the desert ~ the cloudless blue sky? —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Dusk

when evening dawns ~ yearning for the open veld ~ wind against my skin —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Afrika

Composition

still hearing them play ~ symphonies of quiet nights ~ in this company —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Sketches

in all the places ~ that we were once together ~ the fragments of me —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

In memory

it was just last week ~ I too picked a sunflower ~ yet I got to live —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa05

Spectrum child

in all your colours ~ the spectrum of a rainbow ~ grey moods forgiven —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Suitcase

exploring with you ~ as far as you want to go ~ on each different path —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Sketching

in this world we share ~ never mine and never yours ~ eternally free —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Stormy seas

heart upon my sleeve ~ diving into an ocean ~ of deep emotion —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa0

Hangups

the colours of our lives ~ our ideas of right and wrong ~ guide us day by day —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Bird

in your quietude ~ I discover the music ~ of a private world —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa