A haiku, Japanese poetry,
must have a season kigo!
Can have more but please do read the rules.
If you don't use a kigo.
Yes, if you don't use a kigo.
Then probably it's another form
that you have mistook, misclassified!
Must have one to make it a haiku!
Title edited from haiku to kigo, 4th July 2018.
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