a double-ballet ~ of movement, words and music ~ city to city —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
France
Gay Paris
early summer’s day ~ laying laughing in the grass ~ forgetting all cares —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Paris, France: June 2018
minds in long ago ~ bodies in the here and now ~ an old city lived —© 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
Rivers
eyes rowing upstream ~ trying to find a twinned soul ~ ’till they rest in you —© 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
As time goes by
then you were my world ~ now you’re just a random thought ~ catching me off guard —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
In circles
I dreamt of Toulouse ~ of writing to you from there ~ a roundabout dance — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Toulouse 2016/06
Perspectives: Paris, France; June 2018
writing from Paris ~ that there is a different way ~ of seeing the world — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
In Paris
I saw an old man ~ on his journey without hope ~ travelling in peace — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Paris post
these quaint old lampposts ~ have witnessed many stories ~ of dreams lived and lost — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Spiralling
the favourite part ~ is to get lost in the words ~ of a thousand thoughts — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Louvre: Paris, June 2018
a dream is captured ~ where thousands were borne before ~ of a fleeting youth — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Spectres
green on grey on blue ~ shadows playing on my mind ~ mirrored in a gaze — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
From my window: Paris, France, June 2018
coincidences ~ all simply came together ~ to capture a day — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Paris: June 2018
sit solitary ~ Sunday morning at the Seine ~ stillness drifting by — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Merry-go-round
I dreamt of Toulouse
of writing to you from there
a roundabout dance
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Toulouse, France: July 2016
as I walk your streets ~ in summer sunshine sublime ~ all else falls away
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Paris artist: July 1999
the dirt on his feet ~ from walking on Paris streets ~ paints my portrait
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Bastille day tears
the horror of it
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obliterated by hate
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loss immeasurable
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The Venus of l’Abri Pataud: June 2016
washed out in a storm
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your beauty shyly revealed
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for the world to see
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From my window: Toulouse July 2016
summer swallows glide
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against the slow-drifting clouds
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over pink clay roofs
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