Kigo is a word suggesting the season the scene is taking place in. Sometimes it's obvious, as in this haiku from Basho:

The first soft snow!
Enough to bend the leaves
Of the jonquil low.

Sometimes not so obvious (Basho again):

In the cicada's cry
No sign can foretell
How soon it must die.

And sometimes it's downright obtuse (once more, Basho):

No blossoms and no moon,
and he is drinking sake
all alone!

Of course, these haiku have the correct number of syllables in Japanese, but not necessarily in English.

In reply to Re^3: A "strict"ly formatted poem. by eventualdave
in thread A "strict"ly formatted poem. by LassiLantar

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