Competition: Jack's Haiku Extravaganza Week 5

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Jack's Haiku Extravaganza Week 5

It's Jack! It's Haiku! There's 20 of them! Each week will have a topic to form a haiku around. Best entry (based on personal preference, adherence to the weekly theme, and following the standard 5-7-5 build) will take the week! At the end of 20 weeks, the best overall will get an extra bit of shiny!

Placement points as follows:

1st - 6 points

2nd - 5 points

3rd - 4 points

4th - 3 points

5th - 2 points

Participation - 1 points

Ties will be broken based on the number of placements (number of firsts, number of seconds, etc).

Competition Information

Parent Competition: Jack's Haiku Extravaganza
Organized by: Proconsul Mihoshi Keibatsu
Running time: 2025-02-09 until 2025-02-15 (7 days)
Target Unit: Entire DJB
Competition Type: Poetry
Awards: Second Level Crescents
Participants: 16 subscribers, of which 14 have participated.

Results

1st place

Zahara

Member: Zahara
Textual submission: Fire Burning Fierce
Ashes Drifting in The Wind
A Past Left Behind
Placement: 1st place

2nd place

Adept Tahiri Thorn Morte Tarentae

Member: Adept Tahiri Thorn Morte Tarentae
Textual submission: It's gnawing away,
From darkness or deep inside,
Seeking never gone.
Placement: 2nd place

3rd place

Dr. Rhylance

Member

Dr. Rhylance

Textual submission

Shiver up my spine

The cold knife, panic inside

Dark sides path, begin

Placement

3rd place

4th place

Sith Eternal Rasilvenaira StormRaven

Member: Sith Eternal Rasilvenaira StormRaven
Textual submission: Terror grips the heart
Heart racing, mind shaken, Fear
Run from or face it
Placement: 4th place

5th place

Asani Armis

Member: Asani Armis
Submission: Asani Armis opted out of publishing her submission.
Placement: 5th place

6th place

Advisor Reiden Palpatine Karr

Member: Advisor Reiden Palpatine Karr
Textual submission: Dark cold and lonely
No allies come to my aid
Never to be found
Placement: 6th place

7th place

Adept Xantros

Member: Adept Xantros
Textual submission: A primal feeling
A fight or flight reaction
Sad to have no wings
Placement: 7th place

8th place

Colonel Len Iode

Member: Colonel Len Iode
Textual submission: Dark water the unknown
Fear haunts our mindscapes in life
Overcome the strange
Placement: 8th place

9th place

Aedile Syrena Valkar

Member: Aedile Syrena Valkar
Textual submission: Heart pounding loudly, A red saber in the dark, Death soon to arrive
Placement: 9th place

10th place

Reaper Heiken Akechi

Member: Reaper Heiken Akechi
Textual submission: On Monday morning
Nero found out he forgot
To write Jack Haiku
Placement: 10th place

Captain Aryn "Jade" Erinos-Magnuri

Member: Captain Aryn "Jade" Erinos-Magnuri
Textual submission: Some fears are primal,
Atavistic memory
Others are more new
Placement: No placement

Blade Mistress Shadow Nighthunter

Member: Blade Mistress Shadow Nighthunter
Textual submission: Terror can't outrun
Haunting chill paralyzes
Doom comes and dread claims
Placement: No placement

Mistress Aphotis

Member: Mistress Aphotis
Textual submission: Fear, the mind killer,
danger arouses emotions,
delicious madness.
Placement: No placement

Priest Azler Wilder

Member: Priest Azler Wilder
Textual submission: Fear leads to anger.
Anger to hate, suffering.
Suffering for them...
Placement: No placement