High-Koo | DIE Week 1 - Post 2

For this week's creative exercise, I tried a writing exercise from a book called Creative Boot Camp by Stefan Mumaw.

Instructions: look around you right now and choose a random item. Your task is to write a haiku about how that item could be used as a weapon. How deadly a weapon is up to you. Time limit: 9 minutes.

From the Britannica site: Haiku, unrhymed poetic form consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively. The haiku first emerged in Japanese literature during the 17th century, as a terse reaction to elaborate poetic traditions, though it did not become known by the name haiku until the 19th century.

As I found myself at home, I looked around all the places and found my object of inspiration: a high heel. And here is my haiku:

Elegant high heel

Fashion's sharpest creation
Piercing the girl's heart.

Nice exercise, it made me think a lot because I didn't know about haikus before, and having to work with a specific structure can be tricky sometimes, I kept changing words, and the order as I was writing it. Will you try it?