League Day 12;ONI TOMIWA OLAREWANJU VS WAKCHIN NENGAK

LIVE: ONI TOMIWA OLAREWANJU VS WAKCHIN NENGAK.

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: BROKEN WALLS

ONI TOMIWA OLAREWANJU

Title; BROKEN WALLS

Deafening gunshots in the air

This wall falls

Like debris,

Broken into pieces.

Guards now sit

On blood stained thrones

Of a nation

Thrown into darkness.

Violent bayonets 

Tearing apart

The soul of nationalism

And the hopes of democracy.

Armed combatants linger

In the cracks

Awaiting sacrificial lambs

To atone the sins

Of rickety civilians.

Streets paintted with fear

Of crying rifles.

For then, 

The law becomes a male goat

Roasted with series

Of paralysed junta(s)

WAKCHIN NENGAK

Title; BROKEN WALLS 

the walls of our land were built in serenity 

& painted with hues of harmony 

as roles were shuffled without discord.

& these walls - were piles of sturdy bricks that made us one, 

beneath appointed honchos.

before black bloody putschist rend it like a pile of fickle sun-burnt ceramics

in an avarice quest to clutch power.

just after beige hands let us have a taste of free polity.

then, even gentle caudillos got killed by timon cocks 

& later more boot-wearing honchos ousted democracy, 

& all we had were swathes of brutes ruling us with iron claws and guns.

then, the walls of our unanimous country,

the very fence we built with sweaty faces were

cracked, 

pushing us into vicious bouts of ethnic unrest & hatred.

©Wakchin Nengak