thoughts like driftwood ~ softly rolling through my mind ~ tonight I’m still —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Stillness & silence
Whitenoise
one thing that we know ~ is that there’s nothing to say ~ yet we all talk —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Like nothing
blue summer dreams ~ dragonflies in the sun ~ my page is empty —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Contextualise
with eyes wide shut ~ words just drifting in the wind ~ hear their history —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Desolate
the dry wild Namib ~ fog rolls in over the sea ~ and endless red dunes —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Within
we are all alone ~ this is where we find the calm ~ amid a mind storm —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Hearing your silence
unknowingly still ~ whistling under your breath ~ most comforting sound —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Taciturnity
in this desert land ~ it is eternally still ~ not even a breeze —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Centered
still and focused ~ we are standing on the beach ~ around us a storm —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Detachment
on these empty shores ~ in a world of distancing ~ social solitude —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Chorale
voices in a choir ~ give sound to our solitude ~ amidst the crowds —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Contemplative
people all around ~ parents laughing, brother sleeps ~ little girl thinking —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Solitude multiplied
alone together ~ music only we can hear ~ in our silences —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Mixed messages
shouting ‘hey you there!’ ~ but you are not listening ~ whispering to me —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Resolved
settled in calmness ~ making it look so easy ~ yet finding it hard —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
A man
to be strong and still ~ to be gentle in your mind ~ to just simply be —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Masked
these days of stories ~ none of which hold up to truth ~ commanding silence —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Communicated
these words are enough ~ because we said them out loud ~ in our silent world —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Malmö morning
clouds over Malmö ~ in the pale blue morning sun ~ a seagull’s silent flight —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Still sharing
in soundless loudness ~ the echo of our being ~ the noise of our song —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Sitting
until yesterday ~ we have never been so still ~ utterly content —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
South Africa 27/03/2020 am
silent autumn day ~ waking up with sad news of ~ first fatalities —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa: Thanking all who place their lives on the line.
Untouchables
right here by my side ~ with us just a thought away ~ silent Karoo night —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Anchor
a sea of calmness ~ you steer through my emotions ~ anchoring my being —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Urban art
with still thoughtfulness ~ I bring a weak offering ~ to your autumn depth —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Plainness
new discoveries ~ in the hollows of our minds ~ and open grasslands —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Silent music
when all is spoken ~ our language becomes silent ~ our breaths a still song —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Untouched
poetry of life ~ our freedom and dignity ~ found in solitude —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Ellipsis
space between my words ~ beloved of my still mind ~ a blue resting place —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Attachments
the words we don’t speak ~ are captured in depictions ~ silently attached —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Still
in these slow moments ~ we forget who we should be ~ we simply exist —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Insulation
the crowd passes by ~ as I watch from the window ~ of our silent world —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Falling
the meaning of rain ~ slips silently through our minds ~ drop by precious drop —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
To be still
there is so much noise ~ therefore we become ~ fluent in silence —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Melt
easy, just let go ~ become soft in the moment ~ and drift on the wind —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Drifting
I am suspended ~ for I have a private moon ~ within which I wait —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Black
these days of onyx ~ these days of ruminating ~ about what was lost —© 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
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
Grass
never-ending sands ~ of a blue day and bird’s egg ~ that blow in the wind —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Just sitting
I sit in the dark ~ listening to raindrops ~ it’s a happy sound —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Lost
and then it was gone ~ everything we thought we knew ~ about who we were —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Dark
see in black and white ~ the beauty of shapes and sounds ~ moving in the night —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Safe
when I found my place ~ in this big chaotic world ~ it was in your mind —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Art
could not understand ~ then I found the formula ~ of just listening —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Early
the stars bow their heads ~ amber shadows unfolding ~ in the morning light —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Atlantis
an awareness shared ~ in that decisive moment ~ that’s without escape —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Along the way
dreaming in our minds ~ journeys in silence and stone ~ radiating warmth —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Nebel
through the mists of time ~ you find your way back to me ~ on a lonely shore —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Time out
deluge of silence ~ bursts over everyday noise ~ to drain weariness —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Up and down
in cloudy mountains ~ I find the deep grey oceans ~ captured in your eyes —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Empty chair
you can find me still ~ on these melancholic days ~ in spaces we shared —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Autumn
being effortless ~ we drift and play on the wind ~ then we find silence —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
No tweet
conversation dies ~ when we retreat in our minds ~ savouring shared hours —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Experience
adrift in the grey ~ no beginning and no end ~ this one day only —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Gone
upon departure ~ hearing a birdsong echo ~ your voice growing soft —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Passage
lost-love requiem ~ a choir of memories ~ slowly vanishing —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Shouldered
you are the shadow ~ the inescapable thought ~ I carry with me —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Single-minded
can you do that now? ~ only imagine beauty ~ and nothing else? —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Strings
a friend for a day ~ companion for a lifetime ~ boundaries ebb and flow —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Nameless
his name is silence ~ his name is sleep and forget ~ a man with his pain —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Far away
this night is for us ~ with all its lavender hues ~ and a silent dream —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Look up
Parisian skies ~ today there is blue in your grey ~ and still gazes shared —© 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
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
Question
do you remember ~ the blossoms in the desert ~ the cloudless blue sky? —© 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
Bird
in your quietude ~ I discover the music ~ of a private world —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Nesting
curling into you ~ finding such a tranquil space ~ away from it all —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Hug
a gift of calmness ~ a softness that stills my mind ~ allows me to breathe —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Morning
in ever-blue rain ~ walking with you on my mind ~ collecting pebbles —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Contradiction
my pencil sketches ~ capture laughter in your eyes ~ but tears in your smile —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Nocturnal
the full moon adrift ~ in passing melancholy ~ of a deep-blue night —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
From my window: Grahams Town, South Africa, November 2018
in parallel lines ~ together but never one ~ journeys of our minds —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Lullaby
humming me to sleep ~ the still music of colours ~ dancing in your eyes —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Paths
in quiet ruins ~ of forgotten memories ~ we collect our lives —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Shore
the sound of a shell ~ resonates in the ocean ~ colouring our minds —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Enkeling
just beyond the tree ~ I saw you standing alone ~ away from it all —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Shhhh …
the wind on the fields ~ rustling through grasses and leaves ~ whispers its secrets —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
From my window: Jeffreys Bay, South Africa, November 2018
mercury gliding ~ through the many shades of grey ~ almost eternal —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Dancer
behind a bruised word ~ behind a heart that is locked ~ I found you hiding —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Appreciation
an empty canvas ~ intensity of silence ~ this journey of ours —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Petals
the daisies whisper ~ why are we still listening ~ to the wind and the sun? —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Still Bay
writing silent words ~ “in the light of a lighthouse” ~ on secluded shores —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
In stone
only one ‘always’ ~ the language of our bodies ~ grammar without words — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Pastel
catching the red tones ~ in a world that’s yellowed out ~ escaping in pink —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Renewal
losing myself in ~ the blue landscape of a voice ~ painting me like snow — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Essence
painted with these words ~ personal complexities ~ in the simplest terms —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Blown away
reaching out to touch ~ falling into a winter ~ of silent windscapes —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Sprout
sometimes they begin ~ in such beautiful silence ~ simple moments shared — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Seasonal
because knowing that ~ freedom lies in solitude ~ I can say goodbye — © 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
Waiting
standing in one world ~ looking into another ~ always waiting — © 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
Guarded
cautious of falling ~ in the abyss of the mind ~ where we find ourselves — © 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
Seeing
here’s looking at you ~ and the silence of your eyes ~ speaking to my mind — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Voyage
journeys of silence ~ journeys of ancient pathways ~ and wind blowing sand — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Recall
long-lost memories ~ after the still divide of ~ a grey rainy day — © 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
Pause
revealing our souls ~ in this moment that we share ~ then I hold my breath — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Recall
sometimes I forget ~ that I’m waiting in the night ~ for my own stillness — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Right here
in this quiet place ~ in a corner of our hearts ~ poetry is born — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Open
no promises made ~ no answers in the echoes ~ only empty space — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Patent
what we do not say ~ transmits the deepest meaning ~ reveals everything — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Drifting away
with eyes lightly shut ~ feel the caress of of silence ~ in the deepest night — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
In balance
my nomadic self ~ has found its foothold just here ~ a still resting place — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Deciphered
no words are needed ~ the stillness of our journeys ~ translating our thoughts — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Infill
as silences play ~ around the pebbles of time ~ we fall in the gaps — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Pretoria 2015/12
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
Mason
dormant dimension ~ of words never verbalised ~ of thoughts unexpressed — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Scania 2019/08
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
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
Devoted
not wasting our words ~ on the silences we share ~ doting on stillness — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Scania 2018/08
Goodnight
alive in stillness ~ the endless sound of the dunes ~ gently tucks us in — © Lize Bard 2 Haiku out of Africa — Namibia 2017/01
Incantations
in those silent spells ~ I don’t want to read your words ~ but will fly with you — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Dawn
wind from the maintains ~ carries home sleeping waters ~ at the break of day — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Here
this is where we are ~ no pretence or boundaries ~ simply in silence — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa0
Groundswell
last night I just sat ~ listening to the waves break ~ wishing you were here — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
White noise
I don’t understand ~ what it is you want to say ~ but I will listen — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Breathed
a whispered secret ~ lies between these rocks ~ in a moment shared — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Inexplicable
I cannot explain ~ the solitary vastness ~ of a silent soul — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Tossed
we’re thrown together ~ in this teacup’s stormy seas ~ finding inner calm — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa