Competition: Jack's Haiku Extravaganza Week 15

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Jack's Haiku Extravaganza Week 15

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: 2025-04-20 until 2025-04-26 (7 days)
Target Unit: Entire DJB
Competition Type: Poetry
Awards: Second Level Crescents
Participants: 12 subscribers, of which 9 have participated.

Results

1st place

Battlelord Lexiconus Qor

Member: Battlelord Lexiconus Qor
Textual submission: Fall, rise, and repeat—
each scar writes a warrior.
You are not broken.
Placement: 1st place

2nd place

Nikora Rhan

Member: Nikora Rhan
Submission: Nikora Rhan opted out of publishing her submission.
Placement: 2nd place

3rd place

Lieutenant Colonel Narman Losa

Member: Lieutenant Colonel Narman Losa
Textual submission: Roots dig into soil
The earth gives stability
Wind will not destroy
Placement: 3rd place

4th place

Governor Tierra Suha'sen

Member: Governor Tierra Suha'sen
Textual submission: Roots hold strong neath ground
Silent, fierce through mighty storms
Trees never give way
Placement: 4th place

5th place

Fleet Captain Zebina "Ji" Arad

Member: Fleet Captain Zebina "Ji" Arad
Textual submission: Baked hamburger slugs
Their tiny mighty bodies
Glisten in the light
Placement: 5th place

6th place

Lontra Boglach

Member: Lontra Boglach
Textual submission: What is physical
Also product of the mind
Bones break, trials make
Placement: 6th place

7th place

Aedile Syrena Valkar

Member: Aedile Syrena Valkar
Textual submission: Weathering the storm, No rest for a weary soul, Moving on forward
Placement: 7th place

8th place

General Zentru'la

Member: General Zentru'la
Textual submission: Blood on battered steel
He does not pray for mercy,
only more ammo.
Placement: 8th place

9th place

Warlord Furios Morega di Plagia

Member: Warlord Furios Morega di Plagia
Textual submission: Lifting a speeder
Wrestling with a Wookiee
Force grant me power
Placement: 9th place