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haiku' is a Japanese cultural word a centuries old Japanese traditional phonetical & cultural poetic form(with many implications therein & it is a matter of respect to reserve its use to that language's poetics.
Traditional 'haiku-in-english' is completely culturally different & in its attempt to imitate is limited always by the constraints of English.
So for seven years& more I have used a similar sound but a different spelling to recognise the difference namely.. Hiku being technically a freeverse imagist tristich.A verse freed from strict syllabic constraint within its triplicity of format& is inherently enigmatic & often with a caesura and surprise ending( VERSUM )to give a 'turning' to the line.
The HIKU maybe a horizontal single line(often broken line at the caesura),a vertical line(usually a painting(haiga) ,a couplet or a tristich &/or with shapelike variations.Without any 'invented line restrictions 5/7/5, the hiku is the 'free verse' version of the haiku,similar but different ,a present tense poetic in another language -
Hiku as the English language tristich (three line) version(including translations)with similar economy of words including the THOUGHT PAUSE prompt (often indicated by an ellipsis .....the SENSE PAUSE the aesthetic point of insight flowing from perception & ONE BREATH LENGTH to correspond to the aforementioned Japanesese 17 onji sounds.
The essence without "telling all" (thereby to ' show ' conforming to the key of all true imagist poetry),&avoids 'as'&'to' & the use of past tense verbs (& is often without verbs,adverbs,adjectives )A verse freed from strict syllabic constraint within its triplicity of format& is inherently enigmatic & often with a caesura and surprise ending( VERSUM )to give a 'turning' to the line.The hiku maybe a horizontal single* lin(often broken at the caesura),a vertical line ,a couplet or a tristich.
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