When Staring Becomes Wrong: Revolutionary ConTEXTing Haiku

Can one stare at a/
work of art for too long? Can/
gazing become wrong?

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Her Brains, Wit, Joy, Smile And Laughing Eyes — Remembering Crushing, Part 2: Romantic Blogging Haiku

After I posted this Haiku: Remembering Crushing, the woman who inspired it noted that I cut off her face. (I did it to protect her identity). She jokingly commented: “Umm, do you realize you chopped off my head in the picture you posted? lol! Guess it wasn’t my face you were gazing at!”
That, in turn, inspired this poem … and the full photo:

She’d thought it was her/
nearly perfect body he’d/
crushed on. It wasn’t.

Promises Believed: Romantic ConTEXTing Haiku

What promises would/
you believe and trust? I miss/
gazing at your face.

Gazing In Vain: Romantic ConTEXTing Haiku Lament

Gazing at my phone./

Waiting for a call that won’t /come.

I think she’s done.

Lonely Moon-Gazing Boy: Romantic ConTEXTing Haiku

Just a lonely boy/
on a full moon night, wond’ren/
if she’s gazing too.