Brevity in communicating volumes is one of the hardest things to do, and on short poems, the Japanese are masters of the three-line 5/7/5 syllable haiku. The English language version is more forgiving of the usual constraints in the Japanese models which usually reference the seasons or some aspect of nature.
A teacher in a seminar on creativity in the classroom made it so much easier for me to write haiku. She told us to meditate for a few minutes to think of events or memories that came to mind. We folded a sheet of paper in thirds and titled each column Environment (5), Actions (7), and Feelings (5). We jotted notes under each column and came up with a haiku poem. This would be a great exercise for second graders on up and the completed poems displayed on the wall would impress all parents on Back to School Night. My poem:
Teenagers’ Saturday Night Drive
Signs cautioning curves
Passengers singing, laughing
Arms touching, goosebumps