League Day 10; HOPE NJOKU vs MOHAMMED SHAMSU-DEEN

LIVE: HOPE NJOKU vs MOHAMMED SHAMSU-DEEN

NOTE;
1) The judges decision takes 70% of the judgement while well wishes and lovers of poetry votes takes 30%.

2) Upon no circumstance must any of the above mentioned poets vote.

3) The contestants are urged to invite friends to Vote for them using the comment section of this post. No rule exempts you from canvassing for votes.

5) Voting lasts for 18 hours from commencement of Duel.

6) Vote using I VOTE POEM 1 or I VOTE POEM 2

7) Results would be uploaded briefly after the closure of votes.

Good luck to the wordlords.. LET THE BATTLE BEGIN!

THEME: RACISM

HOPE NJOKU

Title; Black and White

I am dark you are light.

Tire is black frame is white

'Black is evil,' you say 

And white is civil right?

Black sheep, back book

Black this , black that

White smiting black without heart.

White kids eating grapevine,

Black kids killed with vinegar.

Blacks are apes, kill 'em all,

And whites are humans, leave 'em all, right?

Hearken you reeking white elements 

Lacking in elementary sense,

If you say, 'black is primitive',

We'd say, 'white is lustrous translucent 

Sculpture lacking blood.'

But, hey, we're both plying the wrong course.

We're both casting reeking spittle on the element that 

He in heaven meticulously carved on the sixth day.

For man is not judged by the colour of his skin

But by the content of his character.

MOHAMMED SHAMSU-DEEN

Title: How Colours Relate

I have seen my people
Leach their natural pride
To buy the skin of Jackson
But he who buys bane
In the journey of skin
Shall wear the rainbow,
For colours are relations.

Let those who try to uproot
Some keys of the piano beware
Let those who hoot at the crow
Check their groins and armpits
That colours are God
Inseparable like a zebra
Interdependent like zebra crosses.

Day and night are brothers:
So gathered clouds  forming night of day
Melts like a water clod in sun
And the repute of moonless night
Is the span of a scanty urine
Soiled by stains of stars.

Let's be Mandelas
To extinct the shreds of Apartheid
Out the pockets of our hearts.

Mohammed Shamsu-Deen

ENJOY!