“Write a haiku of your problem Can you express your problem in a different and creative way, for example, with a poem? Writing poetry engages a creative part of the brain and can help you think about the issue differently. A haiku is a short seventeen syllable poem. It consists of three lines, where the first line has five syllables, the second has seven, and the third has five. For example, if your issue was, “I don’t like working long hours,” you may express this in a haiku as: Monday to Friday Too many working hours”