haiku

[billy]

while we are gratefull for useful links, we don't subscribe to links with a charge (such as a book, or competition ) being given in reply to a poem alink to seasonal words, yes, a link to a poem (a free one) yes. but even then the answer has to have a bearing on the poem and in general be informative. all members are free to leave a link to their own website or a website they're a member, they can also leave an url to a site that sells their own works,
what we frown on is links to books (for sale) and websites that entreat us to take part for a fee or purchase. on this baseline i've removed the urls in question, we do have a good book thread in poetry discussion but the poetry areas are really for feedback. please don't take this as a warning it's just an explanation why we do it.

Dear Mamta, and Ray,
Talking about kigo, and Summer kigo, I'm running a project called The Kigo Lab Project which this competition is a small part: please don't advertise in someone elses thread./mod
I've come to believe that outside of Japan we can gather our own seasonal references that may in time, a long time, if used regularly, come closer to kigo.   Kigo predates not only haiku but hokku although the term "kigo" was introduced later, in 1908.
I touch on kigo at: the idea of posting poetry on this site is so they can get feedback without leaving the site :J:/mod

Coming back to the haiku, I feel it doesn't have that cut that makes haiku of two parts...
e.g.
on the lawn
watered by my tears
new weeds grow
in reverse:
new weeds grow
watered by my tears
on the lawn
It might be an idea to find a new last line in the above example, as lawn is made almost made redundant by 'new weeds grow."
Perhaps Masajo Suzuki might be an inspiration with her love haiku. :-)
url removed, just quote a title and poets name, the poet can then google it
warm regards,
Alan

Hi Tamara,
If you still want this to be a haiku I wonder about naming the 'weed'?  

The Yuki Teikei Haiku Society has a very reasonable season word list (the one I use). urls like this are fine
It lists 'weeds' as a summer kigo.