Competition: Haiku: Week 12

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Haiku: Week 12

Congratulations on staying with us till week 12. Here will be your hardest challenge. We want to see how much you've improved since week 1. After this week, the Haiku Champion will be decided by overall points. In the event of a tie, the tie breaker will be the averaging of all your scores from these twelve weeks. 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 100 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
2016-06-17 until 2016-06-30 (14 days)
Target Unit
Entire DJB
Competition Type
Poetry
Awards
Third Level Crescents
Participants
13 subscribers, of which 6 have participated.
Results
1st place
Ryan Hawkins
Member
Ryan Hawkins
Textual submission

Darkness grows stronger,
Feeding on its own shadow,
Power through conflict,

The Light now enters,
Still young, like a first sunrise,
Giving shadows pause,

Like falling, red, leaves,
The conflict is beautiful,
But crimson in death,

Both shadow and light,
Create and show each other,
Beauty of their way,

Through conflict, beauty,
Through competition, growing,
In proud Brotherhood.

Placement
1st place
2nd place
Misium
Member
Misium
Textual submission

In the last great war,
Esoteric terrorized
the Dark Brotherhood

Jacy and Muzy
took the Mystery Machine
to catch the villain.

Sadly, they never
found who Esoteric was,
as far as we know.

I wanted to hear
they'd unmasked him to find it
was Old Man Jenkins.

I bet if they had,
we would have heard Muz call out
"Muzy Muzy Muuu!"

Placement
2nd place
Member
General Kenath Zoron Ad Vizsla
Textual submission

Great Jedi Wars rock!
All sorts of fun events to
test yourself against.

Fight for your clan and
for yourself as well. Glory
goes to the winners!

Weeks pass by and still
the war rages on. Slowly
getting worn out now.

Look at your clanmates
as attrition wears them down.
Blank stares and dead eyes.

Oh, why did we think
that this would be so much fun?
Great Jedi Wars suck!

Placement
3rd place
4th place
Korroth
Member
Korroth
Textual submission

– GJWX –

Bestial emotions
brought the war to New Tython,
savaging our peace.

Ignorance almost
destroyed us, saved only by
our rogue friend’s knowledge.

The Lion’s passion
mauled at Jedi, clawed away
Urr’s serenity.

Chaos was forestalled,
just, when Ordo and Jedi
fought in harmony.

Oh, that I had died
on that field and not seen us
stray so from the Force.

Placement
4th place
5th place
Lord Halcyon
Member
Lord Halcyon
Textual submission

There was a brother
Leader in the Brotherhood
Elder in Power

Yet he turned his back
Found a new path to go in
Left it all behind

Yet return he did
Bringing with him new allies
Against his brother

Brother on brother
Amidst a Great Jedi War
Dark against the Light

A brother did fall
Defeated by his own kin
As his allies failed

Placement
5th place
Member
Dr. Giyana Jurro
Submission
Dr. Giyana Jurro opted out of publishing her submission.
Placement
5th place