Emotion in haiku

[easywayout]

Alan,

Re. the 'baby bumps', I don't think I've ever done much for Easter Sunday but relax, enjoy the day off and go and see a movie or to the park or the city or whatever - certainly no Sunday lunches. This may be because my family isn't Christian and - more to the point - the friends they have would not distinguish "(Easter) Sunday lunch" from "ordinary social get-together", so that weekend lunches were less likely to be at pubs more likely to be in someone's backyard or in some sort of large park.

I mean... obviously I 'got' the haiku when you explained it, and I like the beer belly/baby bumps contrast, but it didn't ping anything in my personal experience and therefore didn't ping anything on my emotional radar. Sunday lunches are just not a thing in my family, so I didn't make the connection to pregnant women -> Easter --> Easter lunch --> Easter Sunday lunch ---> Sunday lunch -> pub.

I think it was actually the second and third lines of the motorcycle haiku that made the impact on me. I have a temper and can relate to racing off (on foot) down the street in a rage after a fight, just to get away from everything until I cool down. I like the idea of speeding off in my car in a bout of righteous anger, perhaps all the more so because I can't drive and have never had the opportunity to do so. There's something (to me) very fitting about the idea of comparing rage to becoming a vehicle yourself - next best thing to driving like a lunatic! And with the watermelon haiku also, I'm sure we've all found that we say things we can't control if we're angry enough. That image, again, is a very unique one to describe a very common situation.

tl;dr I think I need a metaphor I can relate to so that I can place myself in the narrator's shoes. :)

[Anna]

Alan, thanks for the correction,  copy-paste is not easy   :P:-\

another link of contextual relevance people: 

https://fayaoyagi.wordpress.com/essay/