Some Helpful Hay(na)ku Hints

With Meritage Press announcing a call for submissions to an anthology of hay(na)ku - details - I thought I'd start posting the occasional helpful hay(na)ku hint - hereafter to be called HHHs - for those who may not have so far used the form.The first are below.

#1
Don't
worry about
counting the syllables.

#2
If you're from
Australia or
New

Zealand they can
go like
this.

#3
Acronyms
can go
however you like.

HHH
but also
H    H    H.

#4
Hyphenated
words? Poem-
driven or poem-driven.

#5
Check
out Crag
Hill's Poetry Scorecard.

His
hay(na)ku are
brilliant & diverse.