to 'ku or not to 'ku - 5-7-5 discussion

I'm of the mind that I write haiku-like poetry. I try to add a seasonal word, unless its meant to be a senryu or a joke ku. Fer instancem following the Broncos win on Sunday: Big Ben/Tebowed/in OT.  Now most people who follow football, understand that this particluar game happened in January, but I wasn't really going for a seasonal thing. I was commenting on life, at least mine.

I think I write haiku-like poems, because I don't thing as an English speaker/writer I can really write true ku. the 5-7-5 was our way of Americanizing it and basically removing the Japanese-ness of the form. I'm happy to make my poems as haikuish as I can, but I don't consider what I write to be haiku.

I don't mind if people use the 5-7-5 or the free form that I usually use. If I get the A-HA moment of something, it works for me.