I look at the moon ~ it’s wandering in your eyes ~ reflecting a smile — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
wandering
Cartography
sailing in the wind ~ across waves we navigate ~ a route that’s unmapped — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa — Photo: Hermanus 2018/07
Dreamscape
fata morgana ~ of my quiet wanderings ~ born from nothingness — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Nomad
in windswept deserts ~ across the clouded oceans ~ I’ll be wandering — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Understood
wandering through time ~ forever looking for me ~ something you have found — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Trails
maybe you went home ~ maybe you went somewhere else ~ but some of you stayed — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Fleeting
dreams that fly away ~ they simply will not stay put ~ filled with wanderlust — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Silent synchronicity
our footfalls in sync ~ our thoughts remain unspoken ~ in precious silence — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
On a limb
happily forlorn ~ we’re on a road to nowhere ~ which leads everywhere — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
City strolling
even when you are near ~ I remain the wanderer ~ with us on my mind — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Journey
it’s with these blue hearts ~ that we traverse all our paths ~ meeting and parting — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Comfort
walking together ~ we reach an intimate space ~ a deeply shared calm — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Solo
travelling alone ~ allows for freedom of thought ~ and flawless mind flights — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Just like that!
inspiration comes ~ oft along a winding path ~ or within a wink — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Undercurrent
we share these waters ~ in our individual ways ~ drifting on the tide — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Collective memory
those golden moments ~ engraved in our memories ~ as we walk our trails — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Grounded
wanderers at sea ~ in the mountains and the air ~ where do we find home? — Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Mysteries
wandering through pasts ~ with stones, music and light bulbs ~ it slowly unfolds — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Secluded
solitary souls ~ who prefer to walk alone ~ in our private worlds — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Wanderlust
blue humpback mountains ~ trigger a distant yearning ~ I’m unsure for what — LIze Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Wasteland
my heart’s wilderness ~ used to running free from ties ~ being pruned and tamed — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Invitation
will you walk with me ~ share your concerns with me too ~ and an open heart? — Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Gone fishing
do not ask my love ~ I have given it away ~ to the deep blue sea — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Adrift
today I miss you ~ although you are here with me ~ your mind is at sea — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Parting
path over the hill ~ you are on the other side ~ I just walk away — Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Resting
after years walking ~ the traveller takes a seat ~ and looks at the moon — Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Marvelling
a wanderer’s mind ~ universal wondering ~ magic when minds meat — Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Still flight
wandering through words ~ straying amongst all the noise ~ the wings of silence — Lize Bard© Haiku out of Africa
Exploration
narrow winding path ~ where will this thought lead me to? ~ nowhere is a place — Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Found & lost
your eyes finding mine ~ I wander in their greyness ~ wonder what you see — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Recollections
those soft moments shared ~ stay with us as we’re roaming ~ into new spaces
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Curiosity
where are you leading ~ to a smile or to a tear ~ perhaps the unknown
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Observed
our still witnesses ~ static hotel corridors ~ faraway runways
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Travelling
a dust-road night song ~ brings me to a distant door ~ where secrets remain
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Theorist
beautiful thinker ~ regardless of where we roam ~ I send you my thoughts
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Astray
after I got lost
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I went looking for my heart
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and then lost that too
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Travellers
as I walk with you ~ through the layers of times past ~ my world is perfect
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Winter stroll
a still afternoon ~ our winter home full of love ~ green moss on the stones
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Chosen
the paths we take ~ may lead to nowhere at all ~ their beauty abound — Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Enduring
I’m falling in love ~ with stones wherever I go ~ lasting enchantment
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Sheltered
those feelings are safe ~ even though they are distant ~ we find our way home
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Taking flight
travelling again ~ a soul that’s never resting ~ yet it is so still — Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Convergence
our waters drifting ~ in so many directions ~ yet we always meet
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Deep knowledge
opening the world ~ of knowable mystery ~ travelling through time
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Boundless
transcending borders ~ with all of what I adore ~ a wanderer’s heart
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Found
the heart comes to rest ~ and stillness settles in ~ the search is over
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Companion
finally I found ~ that I want to wander with ~ the rest of the world
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Caution
for us to go there ~ we must tread on soft petals ~ so I hesitate
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Mirage
fatamorgana ~ of my quiet wanderings ~ born from nothingness
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Lost battle
as you make your way ~ through the fibres of my being ~ I try to resist
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Arrival
a wanderer comes ~ along his own winding path ~ to connect with mine
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Unchained
no one can dictate ~ where a poet’s words come from ~ our minds roaming free
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Souveniers
so many places ~ what I have gained travelling? ~ sketches in my mind
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Walking
with our minds entwined ~ we dwell the crowded cities ~ finding solitude
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Network
a flickering maze ~ journeying our destinies ~ labyrinth of time
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Much more
travelling with you ~ deepens the experience ~ to more than space-time
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Liberation
though our hearts are bound ~ we will not enslave our souls ~ to confined spaces
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Coming home
like a migrant bird ~ my thoughts return to your touch ~ then I fly away
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Path
happily forlorn ~ I’m on my road to nowhere ~ which leads everywhere
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Reside
in this world’s cities ~ where we dwell on silent paths ~ amongst the hustle
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Along the path
these words come walking ~ no forcing no holding back ~ finding their own way
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Athens, Greece: June 2017
in the four winds blow ~ The cornerstones of my heart ~ ever circling
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Voyagers
global trevellers ~ our eyes rove the horizon ~ for our destiny
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Tread softly
move across the land ~ touching lightly where you go ~ quiet wanderer
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Abode
when I’m far away ~ home is how you sing my name ~ on a rainy day
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Lost and found
I am wandering ~ forever looking for me ~ something you have found
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Repose
after years walking ~ the traveller takes a seat ~ and looks at the moon
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Singular
look in the water ~ on its surface reflecting ~ a lone wanderer
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Quietude
walking on my own ~ lost in my serenity ~ dreams of solitude
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Beautiful wilderness
a fine rain of words ~ precipitates the desert ~ of our wanderings
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Flight
in our wanderings ~ we are collecting our dreams ~ then we give them flight
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Drifter
I drift in and out ~ of your mercurial mind ~ but wish I could stay
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Where to?
packed in a coffer ~ such big dreams and little poems ~ all ready to go
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Hydra, Greece: June 2017
on my wanderings ~ I take you as a mirror ~ reflecting my stroll
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At ease
eternal nomad ~ meets another wanderer ~ a moment of rest
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Scatterling
in all the places ~ that we were once together ~ the fragments of me
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Nonsense
drifting through this world ~ thinking it will all make sense ~ nothing really does
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My way
my wandering ways ~ are scattered in the four winds ~ yet you know them all
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Homing
footprints of my heart ~ criss-crossing trails in the sand ~ always returning home
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Meeting
we meet each other ~ we meet on roads untraveled ~ we meet in our minds
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Anchored
your hope is holding ~ me who want to drift away ~ steadfast in the wind
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Shimmering
I look at the moon ~ it’s wandering in your eyes ~ reflecting a smile
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Travellers
I’ll explore with you ~ as far as you want to go ~ on each different path
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Nowhere
narrow winding path ~ where will this thought lead me to? ~ nowhere is a place
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Distractions
deviating paths ~ from the highway of our words ~ lead to wonderings
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Walk with me
will you walk with me ~ share your concerns with me too ~ and an open heart
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Echo
when I repeat you ~ without beginning or end ~ you stroll my mindscape
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Wanderers
you wander my way ~ life a solitary path ~ strewn with memories
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Far away from city lights
wide-open spaces ~ there are some who’ll never know ~ our precious wild souls
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Here
my nomadic soul ~ has found its foothold just here ~ a still resting place
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