Write Your First Haiku About Something in the Room Right Now

A haiku is five-seven-five syllables and no other rules matter as much as that. The constraint is the point: it forces you to choose one image and trust it. This takes whatever you can see in the room and turns it into three short attempts, each trying something slightly different.

Write a haiku about one object or detail in your immediate surroundings right now.

A haiku has three lines: 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables. It does not need to rhyme. It should capture one clear image or sensation rather than a statement or opinion.

Write three versions:
- Version one: purely descriptive, what you can see or hear
- Version two: introducing a contrast or unexpected observation
- Version three: your best attempt combining the strongest elements of the first two

For each version, write the haiku then add a one-sentence note on what you were trying to achieve.

[Look around. Pick the first thing that catches your attention. Start with that.]