Competition: Haiku: Week 7

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Haiku: Week 7

Week 7, Ok here things get a lot more challenging. Don't be deterred, give it your best go. Subscribe below for your writing prose.

Requirements for participation:

  • Subscribe to the competition, and submit either a .doc, .docx file, or in the text box.

  • No Google Drive Links Will Be Accepted

  • Follow the prompt. If the three judges agree that this hasn’t been done, you will be disqualified from that week’s challenge.

  • This is a haiku, so you must follow the 5-7-5 syllable count, as well the stanza requirement posted in each week's prompt.

  • Satirical entries will be accepted and graded accordingly. If they fail to properly reflect the spirit of the prompt, it will be reflected in the scoring.

  • Do Not Plagiarize! Plagiarism will be reported to the Justicar.

  • Have fun and be creative. Show us what that brain of yours can really do.

This weeks Haiku will be graded out of 60 points:

Spelling/Grammar: 20% Creativity: 30% Entertainment Value: 20% Originality: 30%

Rewards:

  • 1st: 10 points + 3rd tier crescent

  • 2nd: 9 points + 3rd tier crescent

  • 3rd: 8 points + 3rd tier crescent

  • 4th: 7 points

  • 5th: 6 points

  • 6th: 5 points

  • 7th: 4 points

  • 8th: 3 points

  • 9th: 2 points

  • 10th: 1 point

Competition Information
Parent Competition
Twelve Weeks a Haiku
Organized by
Blade Master Aiden Lee Deshra, Rosalyn May, Reaver Tra'an Reith di Plagia
Running time
2016-05-13 until 2016-05-20 (8 days)
Target Unit
Entire DJB
Competition Type
Poetry
Awards
Third Level Crescents
Participants
13 subscribers, of which 13 have participated.
Results
1st place
Misium
Member
Misium
Textual submission

Take us from our home,
And while others fall and die,
Plagueis will adapt!

Standing on corpses
Of doubters and enemies,
Plagueis will ascend!

Through loss and hardship,
We grow stronger, and through this,
Plagueis will avail!

Placement
1st place
Member
Headmistress Alethia Archenksova
Textual submission

Though born from the Light,
The darkness has come for us.
Our home lies burning.

All is not yet lost.
A new hope among the clouds
Keeps our dreams alive.

Let the tyrant know
That the Light will never die;
Odan-urr yet lives.

Placement
2nd place
3rd place
Korroth
Member
Korroth
Textual submission

We have lost Yhi’s light,
a desperate exodus
has cut us from home.

Drifting flotilla,
untethered and bewildered,
hearts as void as space.

But look forward, friends,
a new star will doubtless blaze
to light us onward.

(btw, “ye” is how I pronounced Yhi)

Placement
3rd place
Member
Howlader Taldrya
Textual submission

Duty honour and
valour are all great things and
we have them in spades

The true test of clans
is how they act together
and work together

Brotherhood within
a Brotherhood and all Clan
Taldryan always

Placement
4th place
Member
General Kenath Zoron Ad Vizsla
Textual submission

Greatest clan ever.
That's how we are known to all.
The name? Taldryan.

Why are we so good?
It should be so obvious.
Pandas are the best.

Our Consul is one
Whose body is black and white.
Ergo, we're best too.

Placement
4th place
6th place
Alishu
Member
Alishu
Textual submission

The Ascendant Clan
Satal Keto, Exar Kun
Dictum of Two Skies

Jusadih system
The once noble House Plagueis
Lost to disaster

Enslaving thousands
Subjugates, Ravagers, Wraiths
The Ascendant Clan

Placement
6th place
Member
Eminent Ikarri Itinen
Textual submission

The best ever seen
Better than the best could be
Forever always

Tiger blood in veins
Power Found in Unity
Victory is sweet

Loss may come one day
Greater still will stand those who
Fought and lost as one

Placement
6th place
Member
Celahir Erinos Arconae
Textual submission

Born from the shadows
They have allied with the light
Gray is their future

Conflicted feelings
A disagreement is born
Darkness is fighting

Times are changing now
The fugitives are welcomed
Asylum granted

A haiku about the shift in Arcona from Dark to Gray and the acceptance of our light-side allies.

Placement
8th place
Member
Keirdagh Taldrya Cantor
Textual submission

Glory abounded,
Victory everpresent.
Dominance unmatched.

Lofty heights achieved,
Disastrous collapse threatened.
Perseverance held.

Rekindled desire,
Boldly facing the future.
Triumph calls our name.

Placement
9th place
10th place
Lord Halcyon
Member
Lord Halcyon
Textual submission

There is an old Clan
Reaching to the beginning
That has seen it all

It is Taldryan
A true Brotherhood within
And without for all

It is powerful
The finest Jedi around
Ready at all times

Placement
10th place
Member
Aiden Dru
Submission
Aiden Dru opted out of publishing his submission.
Placement
No placement
Member
Lilith Alema'rha Versea-Stormwind
Textual submission

Has house Shar Dakhan
Lead by the Quaester Darkblade
Aedile O'Maille

House Marka Ragnos
Lead by Quaester Versea
Aedile Delacroix

Clan Never Sober
Has awesome fiction writers
Clan Naga Sadow

Placement
No placement
Member
Master Zsarion Bloodfyre
Textual submission

Tarentum is home.
Forever a true challenge.
Not for the timid.

We believe in kin.
Darkness and Death are our thing.
We are true darkness.

Our strength is hidden.
Standing ready to ascend.
Our momentum lives.

Placement
No placement