Nearness

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

Narrative

tell me anything ~ other than the promises ~ concealed in your eyes — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

From a distance

you may come closer ~ you may tell me stories ~ and all your life’s dreams — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Barcelona 2018/09

Opening up

when you read me ~ when you become my story ~ we gently unfurl — © 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

Preserved

the stories we live ~ captured in a poet’s words ~ outlasting us all — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Silences

our bodies telling ~ all the incomplete stories ~ hidden in our words — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

Annecdotes

carefully in place ~ my life is a stack of stones ~ each a story long

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© Lize Bard

@ Haiku out of Africa