[Taylor514ce]

The 5-7-5 "rule" doesn't even exist in Japanese. Japanese isn't syllabic. The "rule" was an artifact of very early attempts to Westernize Japanese poetry, and has been ignored for decades among modern haiku poets. Instead, think of "breaths". 2 or 3 breaths, no more, to utter aloud a haiku. Bare minimum of articles. Imagery. I could pare my "version" of yours down even further:

far-off gaze
into azure void --
blue screen of death

Even the three line convention is just that, a convention, one that isn't adhered to strictly these days either, and the above could just as easily be written:

far off gaze into azure void -- blue screen of death

There is even an extreme form of "haiku", called minimals, that crams several words together, cleverly combining letters. One of mine:

gooseasonorouskies

Can you see the haiku hidden in that?

P.S. Zelda, mon canard... you know me so well, all my inhalations are your exhalations.