Joy Comes Upon Opening: Romantic IMprov Haiku

I ask her to tell/
deep thoughts. She hides hers from me./
Joy if she opens.

Facing An Abyss, Spurned: Romantic IMprov Poetry

She stood/
on the verge/
of opening./

Facing the great chasm/
and depths of life,/
she clung to him/
who explained/
everything./

As she leaned forward/
to leap/
into the abyss,/
hoping a net would appear,/
feeling secure/
that he would not let her/
fall,/
he took a phone call./

So she, feeling spurned,/
turned/
and ran,/
again,/
back to her safe place,/
and put back on her bland face,/
and hid.

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Why I Was Awake at 2 A.M.: Romantic ConTEXTing Haiku

At 2 a.m. I /
dreamed how a surprised look danced/
o’er your op’ning face