Check Your Calendar: Romantic ConTEXTing Haiku

Before you accuse/
her of not being enthused,/
check your calendar.

Enthusiasm Looks Like Desperation: Romantic ConTEXTing Haiku

Enthusiasm /
is too often mistaken/
for desperation.

OR
Enthusiasm /
can too oft be mistaken/
for desperation.

Leader Of The Speakers: Revolutionary ConTEXTing Haiku

She shared her words, her/
enthusiasm, and her/
bread pudding with us.

And Now, Apple, What? Romantic Email Free Verse Poem

Now, I’ve returned.
Now, we’ve again met.
It was nice seeing
her again.
Now what?

My enthusiasm is not
rampant.
My desire is not
intense,
unlike the past.

But I’m not ambiguous, either.

I’m calm,
waiting,
like sap within
an old apple tree’s roots
after a long winter.

It waits to be warmed
by spring sun’s rays.
To rise up
and flow out
and push the buds
into blossoms
that explode
inscentandcolorandbeauty
and eventually
bear sweet fruit.

Outside, pink-red
like her lips and skin.
Inside, light gold
like her hair,
moist like the sap
that is starting, now, to move.

With stem to twist
and ask,
at harvest,
“Now what?”

Pick, and taste,
and savor the sweetness
and nourishment
.
Or ignore
until the fruit
grows past
what it could have been
and falls,
unnoticed,
to the ground,
where it bruises,
and turns brown
and sour
and rots.

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Make Me Joyfully Glad: Revolutionary Email Haiku

If one more person/
says my enthusiasm/
made their day, I’m glad!

OR

If one more soul says/
my joie de vivre made their day,/
I’ll be more joyful!

joie de vivre — (French): Lebensfreude, joy of life

Everything I Do I’m Certain: Revolutionary ConTEXTing Haiku And Limerick

Each weird thing I do,/
ev’ry strange event, I’m sure/
you’ll always like them.

PLUS

I can’t help but think about you
with almost every weird thing I do.
You may pretend not to care
or even want to be there,
but I dig how your enthusiasm’s true.

Embarassing Enthusiasm: Romantic ConTEXTing Haiku

His intensity/
and enthusiasm for /
her embarrassed him.