Discovery

when I found it there ~ one night on a desert dune ~ I roped in the moon —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Late

evening roses ~ softly spill their deep perfume ~ into purple nights —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Hominins

global travellers ~ our eyes rove the horizon ~ for our destiny —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Climbing

painted in my words ~ awash in silver moonlight ~ a staircase to you —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Nearness

stories do not end ~ we simply stop telling them ~ when they come too close —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Moment

today in your eyes ~ a shallow blue-green ocean ~ searching for my shore —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Pottering

always returning ~ our abandoned memories ~ of shattered moments —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Wet

skin to skin we feel ~ the softness of autumn rain ~ that falls between us —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Early light

yawn at my window ~ pluck me from a deep slumber ~ a pink break of day —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Encapsulated

your sound surrounds me ~ like the wind and the grey sea ~ sheltering my dreams —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Like glass

slipping from my pen ~ without pretense or control ~ a river of thoughts —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Kleinnood

a golden treasure ~ now lives in my Africa ~ something small once yours —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Gossamer

in silver moonlight ~ looking over my shoulder ~ at the fading stars —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Adrift

clouds sailing like ships ~ through windy oceans of blue ~ never reaching land —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Carousel

my mind in circles ~ around midnight messages ~ I don’t understand —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Voices

in the wind and sea ~ I used to hear others sing ~ now it’s only you —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Stream

these words are flowing ~ no pushing no holding back ~ finding their own way —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Up close

it is always there ~ it’s disguised in every word ~ the stillness in us —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Namib

the place in my mind ~ where I find a wild stillness ~ filled with your beauty —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Shapes

always just circling ~ like the shadows and the trees ~ same recurring thoughts —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Ask

will you pick a star ~ out of the deep-blue night sky ~ and give it my name? —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Moments

giving it t me ~ to hold and to protect it ~ as a token of trust —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Grass

never-ending sands ~ of a blue day and bird’s egg ~ that blow in the wind —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Sobriety

too many riddles ~ in the dark blue stream of life ~ too few lucid days —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Recycling

new identities ~ splitting the knowns from unknowns ~ trademarks shattering —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Dusk

for just a moment ~ the sky a blood-red marble ~ captured in suspense —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Square earth

we keep on searching ~ no openings can be found ~ behind those closed minds —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Artefact

my emotional ~ archaeology of mind ~ excavated you —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa