Competition: Jack's Haiku Extravaganza Week 10

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Jack's Haiku Extravaganza Week 10
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
2025-03-16 until 2025-03-22 (7 days)
Target Unit
Entire DJB
Competition Type
Poetry
Awards
Second Level Crescents
Participants
13 subscribers, of which 10 have participated.
Results
Member
Mistress Aphotis
Textual submission

Weeks without eating,
dried up, rot, frozen, fever,
holding on to life.

Placement
1st place
Member
Advisor Reiden Palpatine Karr
Textual submission

Despite all these things
You cannot ever break me
I will carry on

Placement
2nd place
3rd place
Nikora Rhan
Member
Nikora Rhan
Submission
Nikora Rhan opted out of publishing her submission.
Placement
3rd place
Member
Sith Eternal Rasilvenaira StormRaven
Textual submission

Must stay alive now
Fighting against all the odds
Must survive, I will.

Placement
4th place
Member
Warlord Furios Morega di Plagia
Textual submission

Just doing my best
To stay alive in the wild
Something just bit me

Placement
5th place
Member
Aedile Syrena Valkar
Textual submission

A desolate sky, Sun scorching down upon earth, Last sip of water

Placement
6th place
Member
Priest Azler Wilder
Submission
Priest Azler Wilder opted out of publishing his submission.
Placement
7th place
8th place
Sato Tarentae
Member
Sato Tarentae
Textual submission

In the harshest winds
Life's flame quivers and wavers,
Yet it still burns on

Placement
8th place
Member
Adept Tahiri Thorn Morte Tarentae
Textual submission

Whether the fittest
Or the cleverest be it
Alive will survive

Placement
9th place
10th place
Lontra Boglach
Member
Lontra Boglach
Textual submission

A Spring Survival - Lontra Boglach

Heavy are waters
Created by melting snow
Avoid to be safe

Placement
10th place